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Event
Poetry For Dreamers: Exploring Myth & Archetype As We Uncover Ourselves
Poetry For Dreamers:
Exploring Myth & Archetype As We Uncover Ourselves
A workshop at the PDX Poetry Fest and Independent Publishing Resource Center
Facilitated by Julia Laxer
Attending students are encouraged to keep a daily dream diary to record details. This is useful for providing inspiration before, throughout, and beyond the course.
General Ideas & Goals:
This workshop introduces participants to Mythological Dream Interpretation as a method for exploring the Poetics of Dreams. Students are encouraged to develop a personal poetic language & mythology to reflect their unique somatic experiences. I will share work from a diverse group of poets from inside, as well as outside the canon, whose writing is inspired by dreams. The workshop will include lessons exploring dream interpretation, archetype, and myth, while acknowledging the similarities and the differences in meaning across global cultures. By writing poems about dreams, and in reference to art, we are responding to the world around us through archetype, culture reflects our universal, everyday, lived-dream experience. Methodology: this workshop will consist of in-class guided activities as well as generative writing assignments / prompts. Participants will receive handouts describing poetry writing techniques, information about mythology and archetype, and examples of poems, as well as images of visual arts inspired by dream interpretation. In this workshop, students will apply these techniques in their poetry practice, culminating in the development of new work.
Suitable for ALL LEVELS.
BIO:
Julia Laxer lives for the stories and writes in the afternoons from a messy desk in a rose-lit room in Portland, Oregon. She uses performance art and spiritual practice to explore archetype and ritual and writes poems, essays, erotica, and memoir. Julia won the Orlando Prize in Nonfiction from A Room of Her Own (AROHO) in 2014, and her work is featured in magazines, journals, and anthologies including Luna Luna Magazine, CLASH Media, The Los Angeles Review, So-to-Speak, and Zócalo Public Square. In spring of 2018 she premiered The Girl Who Stole Spring, a modern retelling of the myth of Persephone. She is dreaming big always.
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Location Independent Publishing Resource Center (View)
318 SE Main St. Suite 155
Portland, OR 97214
United States
Categories
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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Contact
| Owner: JuliaLaxer |
| On BPT Since: May 28, 2018 |
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| Julia Laxer |
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