The natural world offers a rich and seemin gly infinite source of creatures and plants\, skies and seas\, geological features\, and weather that are available to artists of every sort to inte rpret imaginatively. For poets\, metaphor is the medium by which a poem ca n discover\, objectify\, and turn outward the most inward parts of our bei ng so that the personal becomes the universal.
\nIn this workshop\, Suzanne Underwood Rhodes will discuss how representations from nature corr espond with aspects of the innermost self where desire\, fears\, hope\, sa dness\, regrets\, and all the other emotions and impulses reside. To illus trate the concept\, Suzanne will share several poems\, some of her own and some from notables like Li- Young Lee\, Mary Oliver\, Barbara Crooker\, a nd Phillip Howerton. To further fire the imagination\, participants will d o a short writing exercise\, then compose a poem where nature meets memory \, the treasury of the inward self.
\nAbout Suzanne:
\nSuzanne Underwood Rhodes is the poet laureate of Arkansas\, appo inted in January 2022 by the governor for a four-year term. She&rsquo\;s t he author of Flying Yellow: New and Selected Poems\, named a semi-finalist in the 2022 North American Book Award of the Poetry Society of Virginia. Other books are What a Light Thing\, This Stone\; two chapbooks\, Hungry F oxes and Weather of the House\, and two books of lyrical prose\, A Welcome Shore and Sketches of Home. Her poems have appeared in many journals\, bo oks\, and anthologies\, with recent work in Mid/South Anthology\, Slant\, Green Mountains Review\, Crosswinds Poetry Journal\, Medicine and Meaning\ , and Christian Century. She has a new chapbook completed and is working o n a third full-length poetry collection. Awards include nominations for th e Pushcart prize\, first place in the Dr. Lily Peter Memorial Award\, firs t place in the Richard Lewis Haiku contest\, first place in the Virginia H ighlands Creative Writing Contest\, and others. A retired college instruct or\, she lives in Fayetteville and teaches virtual poetry workshops throug h the Muse Writers Center in Norfolk\, Virginia.
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