Agenda, May 14 2014: The Exotic

POETRY WORKSHOP AGENDA, MAY 14, 2014.

‘THE EXOTIC’

Introductions

Sharing of poems on theme, current work, work in progress, published poems.

2 Minute Meditation

Freewrite On Theme. Prompts: 

• Are you a hunter for the exotic in life? If so where do you find it and how do you experience it? OR...
• How in your opinion does the exotic vary from culture to culture? How do we classify the exotic and what does that mean in terms of the way we relate to one another as humans from different countries/lands/places. OR... 
• At what point does exotic overlap with erotic? OR...
• What is your most exotic fantasy and how do the five senses play into this dream?

Review and reading of Freewrites.

15 MINUTE BREAK

Readings and Discussion on theme :

‘The Goblin Market,’- Christina Rossetti (1862)

‘The Voyage,’ - Charles Baudelaire (1857)

-Group Poem if time allows!