Embrace Science in Your Creative Writing

Instructor: Jessica Reed

Date: 3 Saturdays: June 14, July 12, August 2
Time: 11 a.m.- 1 p.m.
Location: IWC
Cost: $114 nonmembers, $78 members, $66 student/teacher/senior members

Poets, take the world in your hands. Our universe, as revealed to us through science, contains mystery and invites contemplation. Imaginative writing is a natural place to explore our strange and wonderful world and to reflect its beauty. If, as physicist Neils Bohr put it, a physicist is an atom’s way of looking at itself, a poet is an atom’s way of spinning in front of the mirror. In this class we’ll discuss a wide range of literature influenced by scientific ideas, and we’ll generate material for poems and stories with guided exercises and imitation. Writers will leave with designs for new projects, along with a deeper appreciation of humanity's two most important endeavors: science and art. Be prepared to build what poet Marianne Moore called “imaginary gardens with real toads in them”!