PROCESSING EMOTION THROUGH POETRY
With Ann Cefola
William Carlos Williams famously says, “No ideas but in things.” Mark Doty, inspired by a mackerel display at his local grocery store, later writes a poem which resonates with loss from the AIDS epidemic. In this poetry workshop, we’ll look at specific images as the doorway to communicating or processing emotion. We’ll examine how a few poets accomplish this task, and then do some writing ourselves.
