Heartland Society of Women Writers Offers Image Workshop with Marianne Goruch

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Heartland Society of Women Writers Offers Image Workshop with Marianne Goruch
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Image Workshop with Marianne Goruch, part of the Indiana Author Awards Speaker Program (free):
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/579144455657

Sun, April 23, 2023, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM EDT

The Image Workshop:

The 18th, early 19th century poet William Blake was pretty offhand about it, those angels he saw in a tree when he was nine, and again at fourteen, this time the ones just standing around among the threshers in a field. And then there’s that chat he had with the angel who served as Michelangelo's favorite model for figures in his frescos. (!!!)

The goal in this workshop is more modest and earthbound: to see odd, everyday stuff--the beloved particulars--and follow those images, and not one's pre-digested and stubborn intention, into poems or short prose meditations on the page.

To aid and abet, the workshop will involve doing a few rounds of “image workshop,” a group exercise to deepen habits of observation and patience, trusting those images to trigger whatever flashes, fevers and, with any luck, gives solace too. Then on-the-spot participants will write. And read aloud what came to them. Then talk about why these pieces have such power.