Presented by Robert F. Piazza

Rekindle your creative fire! Poets of all levels, from beginner to advanced, come together to read, write, and recite. Modern Franciscan monk Richard Rohr perceives a universal pattern of transformation from order to disorder to reorder in most Wisdom Traditions, including Catholicism. In this workshop, we will explore the poetry of trauma, loss, and addiction, as well as poems that affirm recovery, resurrection, and rebirth.

To get our creative juices flowing, we will look at poems by Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Theodore Roethke, Anne Sexton, Edwin Arlington Robinson, and Elizabeth Bishop. Bring your own pens, pencils, paper, notebooks. Poems will be provided. Enjoy this opportunity to nurture your inner Muse!

Cost is $35 with Lunch Included

Robert Piazza recently completed his MFA in Creative Writing at Fairfield University.  He teaches literature and composition at colleges and universities in Waterbury, Connecticut. His poems have appeared in Mystic Blue Review, Halcyon Days, Society of Classical Poets, Haiku Journal, Poetry Quarterly, Founder's Favourites, and The Lyric. Robert is also the first poet laureate of Litchfield!