Poetry, Spirituality, and New Forms of Attention:Wednesday, Sept. 25, 4:30pm ET

Emily Dickinson’s poems interact with silence to open spaces of questioning, recognition, and keen attention to spiritual matters and questions of meaning. In this workshop, we’ll place our own poetry in the context of Dickinson’s poetry, offer a short guided meditation and generative prompts for participants to explore their own relation to silence, voice, and spiritual attention.

About the Poets

Rachel Zucker is the author The Poetics of Wrongness, SoundMachine, MOTHERs and eight other books. In addition to working as a labor doula, childbirth educator, and pearl stringer, Rachel has taught writing to people of all ages and, for the past thirteen years, to graduate and undergraduates at New York University. She is founder and host of the Commonplace podcast and directrix of The Commonplace School for Embodied Poetics.
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Nadia Colburn is the author of I Say the Sky and The High Shelf. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University, is a yoga teacher, serious student of Thich Nhat Hanh and founder of Align Your Story Writing School, which brings traditional literary and creative writing studies together with mindfulness, embodied practices, and social and environmental engagement. Find her at nadiacolburn.com, where she offers meditations and free resources for writers.
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