POEMS OF HISTORY AND HOPE

Led by Nevada County Poet Laureate Karen Terrey.

Poems can uniquely capture the emotion of a moment in time from your own life. Including the social or historical with your personal experience within the poem can add depth and a current relevancy. What public events have influenced your own life? Do you want to write about an experience of a long ago public event, a social or political movement or a current event that is making history now?

Poems of history and hope will be our guides to find approaches to write about a moment within your own life and to explore how it ties in with historical happenings around you.

In this workshop we’ll look at a few insightful poems that integrate social experience of the moment with personal experience. With fun prompts you will write one or two new poems and leave with many more ideas and techniques to play with. 

No writing or poetry experience necessary! The approaches in this workshop are useful for fiction and memoir too.