POETRY AGENDA, APRIL SIXTEENTH, TWO THOUSAND AND FOURTEEN: “Somebody Else”

8:20-8:30 : INTRODUCTIONS

8:30-8:50 : SHARING OF POEMS

2 MINUTE MEDITATION

9:00-9:20 : FREEWRITE ON THEME. PROMPTS: If this person is not longer in your life, do you wish they were? And if they were what would life look like with them? OR How does or did this person influence who you are? OR If you had a chance to tell this person something you haven’t told them what would it be? OR Describe what the perfect day with this person is.


9:20-9:30 : SHARING OF FREEWRITES

BREAK ( 15 MINUTES )

9:45- 10:30 : READING AND DISCUSSION OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH’S ‘LUCY POEMS’

• Strange Fits of Passion Have I known
• She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
• Three Years she Grew in Sun and Shower
• I travelled Among Unknown Men
• A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal

10:30- 10:45 : SHORT WRITING GROUP EXERCISE: CONTRIBUTED QUESTIONS.

OUT LOUD POEM IF TIME ALLOWS!