"Feeling a Sense of Place"
with Carla Drysdale
What does it mean to be home? To make a home? Can it be made anywhere? How does travel expand our idea of home, or does it? In this poetry workshop, we’ll explore the ideas of home and travel and the intersections of the two through discussion and writing exercises—from postcards to Post-its to the blank page. We will work individually, in pairs and/or small groups and everyone will be encouraged to share something that we've worked on. A pen and paper is all that you’ll need. Poet Elizabeth Bishop writes in her poem “Questions of Travel:" “Is it lack of imagination that makes us come / to imagined places, not just stay at home?” We’ll examine what it means to travel, be it across the street or across the world and by extension what it means to be at home, wherever that may be.
Schedule
10am-12:30pm Morning Workshop
12:30-12:45pm Announcements and Readings
12:45-2pm Bring your own picnic lunch to share
2-4:30 pm Mini Master Class (see separate Registration Form)
Carla Drysdale’s poetry books include All Born Perfect (Kelsay Books, 2019); Inheritance (Finishing Line Press, 2016) and Little Venus, (Tightrope Books, 2010). Her poems have appeared in numerous print and online journals, including What Rough Beast (a project of Indolent Books), Peacock Journal, Cleaver Magazine, PRISM International, LIT, the Literary Review of Canada, Canadian Literature, The Fiddlehead, Global City Review, Literary Mama and in the anthologies, Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse and Entering the Real World: VCCA Poets on Mt. San Angelo. Her poems have been set to music by composers David Del Tredici and Daniel Sonenberg. In 2014 she was awarded PRISM's annual Earle Birney poetry prize for her poem, Inheritance. Born in London, Ontario, she lives with her husband and two sons in Ornex, France and works for the United Nations.
Carla Drysdale’s poetry books include All Born Perfect (Kelsay Books, 2019); Inheritance (Finishing Line Press, 2016) and Little Venus, (Tightrope Books, 2010). Her poems have appeared in numerous print and online journals, including What Rough Beast (a project of Indolent Books), Peacock Journal, Cleaver Magazine, PRISM International, LIT, the Literary Review of Canada, Canadianbal City Review, Literary Mama and in the anthologies, Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse and Entering the Real World: VCCA Poets on Mt. San Angelo. Her poems have been set to music by composers David Del Tredici and Daniel Sonenberg. In 2014 she was awarded PRISM's annual Earle BirSign up at genevawriters@gmail.com
Payments can be made online via the GWG website, or in cash on the day
