The consolations of poetry are many. How can they support us now?

A pop-up workshop series that  is centering, catalytic, generative, and a reminder that, although we come from different places and experiences, poetry offers us common ground.
I warmly invite you to join me there, to explore creative writing as a holistic practice that connects us to our deeper humanity. We will visit with a guest artist, then write a poem. It will feel good. 

 

Wednesday, October 8,

4-5 pm Eastern

 

Our guest is poet Aiyana Masla, author of the debut collection The Underdream.

 

All are welcome. No prior experience required.

 

Register below.

 

"Thank You Holly for all your teachings, techniques, exposure to poems, poets, and poetry forms. This, coupled with your encouraging ways, has helped my life become a little deeper, a little fuller, and more creative."— Kevin W.

Poetry as Consolation Pop-up Workshop

October 8 at 4-5 pm Eastern on Zoom hosted by Holly Wren Spaulding (Poetry Forge) with special guest, Aiyana Masla, author of The Underdream: Poems. This is an experiential workshop where we will explore the benefits of writing poetry in the midst of of real life. All are welcome. ~Connect with a warm and welcoming community of fellow writers, secret poets, and seekers ~Remember how good it feels to create something, no matter how humble ~Bring your notebook and leave with a new piece of creative writing! ~Support the Poetry Forge Scholarship Fund After you register, you will receive an email containing the Zoom link for the workshop. If you miss the workshop you can expect to receive the replay within 48 hours.

Suggested donation $35.00. Please give what you can.

"To say I'm inspired is an understatement."

 
Diane S.

"Poetry as Consolation has made a difference in so many ways! It has gotten me writing poetry again, introduced me to so many poets I would not have met otherwise, and it has truly been a consolation during a prolonged period of isolation at home. And it has also given me access to a poetry workshop on my meager, fixed income." —Kathleen A.

Sliding scale

community writing workshop

 

open to all

 

 

 

Holly Wren Spaulding is an award winning teacher, poet, and interdisciplinary artist living on the southern seacoast of Maine.  In 2013 she founded Poetry Forge, where she teaches creative writing workshops and teaches the art of the poetry chapbook. Holly hosts writing retreats in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, on the Leelanau Peninsula, and in her own garden. She has also taught for Interlochen Center for the Arts, Kripalu Center, and Omega Institute.

Spaulding's poems, essays, book reviews and articles have appeared widely, including in Michigan Quarterly Review, Witness, Poetry Northwest and elsewhere. Her recent publications include Familiars: Poems (Alice Greene & Co., 2020), Fire (St. Brigid Press, 2021), and Between Us (Alice Greene & Co., 2022). Her poems have been anthologized inThe Poetry of Presence and The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal.