2010 Gold Rush Writers Retreat

Mining the Word: Striking Gold in Poetry Digs


by

Monika Rose

Learn some great techniques for mining raw material to convert into poems that project ideas and thoughts trapped in your subconscious. This is a stimulating approach for unearthing unusual imagery and emotion, using existing material to scaffold your interior journey.

You will be drafting a poem in the workshop from your excavations and adventures in language and sharing with the group. Bring some of your own prose writing, journal entries, letters, email printouts of writing to a friend, and photographs of memorable events, to use in the process.
Other media materials will be provided for digging.

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