Reading and Writing Workshop with Author and Editor Megan Willome
Begins February 3. Limit 10 participants.
A lot of us in the land of Tweetspeak are moms. A lot of us love poetry. Therefore, a lot of us are Moms on Poetry.
How do we make sense of the enormous part of our identity that is “motherhood”? Unlike other aspects of who we are, motherhood waxes and wanes like the moon. It is not gone when the moon is new and our children have moved out, nor is it the whole of ourselves when the moon, and our hands, are full.
Every mother experiences heartache in her role. For some, the trauma is terrible, and then done. For others, it remains; we adjust and find loveliness anyway. In my own experience of motherhood, I’ve found no better way to do that than with poetry. Sometimes it makes more sense than reality.
$350 • 8-Week Online Course Includes - Weekly servings of poetry, podcasts, and music, along with a section each week from the book we are reading, jealous poem stacks from each week’s theme, six asynchronous group discussions you can participate in at your convenience and two live Zoom video chats (recorded, in case you need to miss), weekly pairing with a peer to share poems about motherhood, weekly writing prompts.