Classes
Lifelines: Poetry
This 5 week course welcomes poets with all levels of writing experience to come together with open ‘beginners mind’ to make poems. Participants will play with words, use their senses and not-so-conscious mind to attend to passing reality and give voice to things they didn’t know they knew. The will explore the basics of the craft: image, metaphor, music, voice, line, meter, rhyme, form, experiment, revision and even publication in a challenging but supportive environment. The class will consider poems from master poets and look closely at each student’s work. There will be intriguing homework assignments and participants can expect to be surprised by the poems they create.
A pediatrician, Kelley White has published three full-length poetry collections, THE PATIENT PRESENTS, LATE, and LIVING IN THE HEART, four chapbooks, and has had well over 3000 poems appear in hundreds of journals including American Writing, Exquisite Corpse, Feminist Studies, and the Journal of the American Medical Association. In spite of this she thinks poetry keeps her sane. Kelley White is also poetry editor of the Schuylkill Valley Journal.
Classes will meet at the Manayunk Art Center, 419 Green Lane (rear), Philadelphia, PA 19128, five consecutive Monday evenings from October 15 to November 12, 7-9 pm.
To register contact kelleywhitemd@yahoo.com (215) 681-6501 or Peter Krok macpoet1@aol.com at (610) 789-4692
Cost is $75 for 5 week class, payable to the Peter Krok –SVJ.
Send check to
Peter Krok
240 Golf Hills Road
Havertown, PA 19083
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