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| One Small Grief: Tracking the Personal Riddle |
Through writing, we can begin to uncover the unconscious patterns of our lives and discover what Stanley Kunitz calls each person's "constellation of images." In this talk, Rebecca McClanahan suggests ways to write your way into an understanding of your own personal myth. | |||||||||
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| I Dream So Wildly: Children and Poetry |
For over fifteen years, as writer-in-residence for a large metropolitan school district, Rebecca McClanahan worked with thousands of children, encouraging them to express their joys, fears, and dreams through poetry. In this presentation, she shares students' poems and discusses what these poems can teach us about children, life, art, and ourselves. | |||||||||
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| Composting: Notes From a Writer's Journal |
A writer's composing process can be likened to the process of composting; organic material, which might otherwise have been discarded, feeds the soil for future crops. This talk, "composted" from journal entries written over a ten-year period, provides an insider's view of the daily life of a writer and suggests how even the smallest entry can work its way into future work. | |||||||||
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| Poetry in Our Lives | Poetry is not an educational frill, a disposable enrichment activity for a gifted few; it is one of life's necessities, as essential to our human spirit as bread, air, or water is to our bodies. This talk focuses on the benefits of poetry reading and writing, and suggests ways to make poetry part of our everyday lives. | |||||||||
