To some extent\, all poetry\, however lash ing\, grief-stricken\, painful\, or &ldquo\;negative&rdquo\; its particula r content\, is ultimately celebratory. The manifestation that is the poem& mdash\;the artifact that represents the response to and shaping of the pri vate jabberer\, the inner critic\, the incessant fretter\, and irrepressib le dreamer in all of us&mdash\;is an awakened experience: the world is ine xplicably and vividly rearranged before us\, and we are not the same perso n who was there before we wrote the poem. Do we not seek this feeling when encountering all art?
\nIn this workshop\, we will learn some every day yet sustainable ways to compose poetry that awakens both us and our re aders into the ordinary miracles of our lives. We will address topics that are often challenging and rarely explored\, but essential in not just wri ting poetry that awakens\, but in living through and as that poetry. These topics include defamiliarization\, the unconscious as gold mine\, the met aphysics of the small\, and the poetics of desire. As Bertolt Brecht has w ritten\, &ldquo\;In these dark times\, will there also be singing? / Yes\, there will be singing. / About the dark times.&rdquo\;
\nSp eaker Bio: \;Jomil lives in Golden with his wife\, Nancy Stoh lman\, and his 12-year-old son. Trained at the Writer&rsquo\;s Workshop\, University of Iowa\, Jomil is a poet\, scholar\, and associate professor a t Arapahoe Community College. Jomil thinks that poetry\, as the creative r emembrance and presencing of consciousness\, can save the world.
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