The first of a series of three generative poetry workshops led by Kate Gibbel.
This is a hybrid program. 
Registration Required.  Please email jared.jenisch@thehowe.org to register.  

Poems for Spring 

With the first daffodils and crocuses budding in the Upper Valley, this generative workshop will read a few poems featuring flowers. Why are there so many flowers in poems? What do the flowers do for the poems? What is another name for a rose? And would it smell as sweet? We might read and consider poems like “Roses Only” by Marianne Moore, “Divining the Field” by Brigit Peegan Kelly, or “Nobody knows this little Rose” by Emily Dickinson. All poems will be provided by the instructor.

This is a generative poetry workshop that will run for about 75 minutes. We will read and discuss 1-2 poems. With a prompt based on our reading, we will write our own poems. If there is time and interest, we will share our poems with the group. (You do not have to share if you don’t want to!)

Kate Gibbel’s poems have been published in The Chicago Review, jubilat, Second Factory, Tin House Online, and elsewhere. She edits and prints Send Me Press, a monthly series of letterpress postcard poems. She holds an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and lives in Windsor, VT. Her manuscript Re the Waves was a finalist for the 2022 National Poetry Series.