Writing in the Wild: An invitation to a special virtual course

The need for self-expression for many is heightened in turbulent times. While many cannot be on the ranch in person to connect with the wild, we offer this eco-poetry workshop with prize-winning poet and noted instructor Pam Uschuk to facilitate environmentally concerned poets to generate new work and connect to each other.

VIRTUAL OFFERING

WRITING IN THE WILD: ECO POETRY IN A TIME OF CLIMATE CHANGE A POETRY INTENSIVE with Pam Uschuk THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29 - SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31 via Zoom Three 80-minute sessions CLICK FOR INFO & TO REGISTER

TESTIMONIAL

"Whether writing her own work, editing that of others, or teaching the craft, Pam Uschuk is a complete poet. Her workshops help her participants, both the experienced and the neophyte, to bring their poems to fullest flower. Best of all, Pam is fun to work with." - F. Mark Lupinetti, Santa Fe, New Mexico

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

Session One: Imagery. We will concentrate on how to create powerful imagery through fresh, original metaphors. There will be a discussion of model poems to look at the various ways poets use metaphor. Participants will receive a poetry prompt and have overnight to write their first draft. Session Two: Sound & Rhythm. Learn to use repetition, pitch, cacaphony, fluidity, assonance and more to effect in poetry. Participants will share the poem they wrote from their first prompt. There will be a discussion of model poems. The second poetry prompt employing sound techniques will be given. Participants again have overnight to write a first draft. Session Three: Line Breaks & Stanzas. This session will focus on breath, pacing, enjambments to create tension and end-stopped lines in poems. There will be a discussion of model poems to see how Imagery, Sound and Line Breaks create and impel emotion and meaning in poems. All participants will have a chance to read their poems aloud to the group.

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WHOLE NOTES Pamela Uschuk

God is the tongue of the female timber wolf slathering my face, rough as a snowshovel scraping back the pages of Red Riding Hood, revising my ears. Listen, says this wolf tongue speaking its severed language of love and sorrow, its history of stick games, its guileless pups, history of rifleshot from airplanes, forelegs snapped in steel-toothed traps, trailing blood through snow. Listen. Have you ever heard eighty wild throats howling their ghosts at noon, eighty fanged angels buzzed by yellow jackets and the belch of oil tankers downshifting just over the ridge? Have you heard their long-boned whole notes of goodbye? Wolfwood Wolf Refuge, SW Colorado from Wild In The Plaza of Memory, Wings Press

TESTIMONIAL

"I've taken two amazing writing workshops with Pam Uschuk. First, a Ghost Ranch three-week January intensive: Writing the Sacred Landscape. Then, a week-long Memoir and Poetry intensive in Tuscon, Arizona. Pam is an outstanding teacher: organized, encouraging, and inspiring. After her workshops I had two pieces published. She is a gift to the literary world and to her students. If you have an opportunity to study with Pam, do it!" - Jane Hipkins Sobie, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

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