Great fiction has the amazing ability to transport us, building our knowledge and empathy as we go. Poetry — should you decide to eschew the fear and embrace it! — transports us, too…but it brings us more deeply into our own worlds and experiences. In this fun, low-pressure and engaging drop-in group for poetry beginners, we’ll demystify and celebrate poetry. Together, we’ll learn that poetry isn’t always the difficult and inaccessible medium many fear, discovering the joy and catharsis these works were always meant to inspire. We’ll allow these poems to bring us comfort, meaning and release during this incredibly difficult time. We’ll read mostly contemporary poetry, and a few classics, too (to remind us that the poems we learned in school are perhaps more relatable than we thought!). The poetry packet, representing a wide array of voices and circumstances, has something for everyone; even the absolute poetry novice. All are welcome!

Our first Poetry 101 was so successful we have decided to continue the experience with Poetry 101- Part 2. We will continue to explore the poems we did not get to in the first session and Jessica will be adding new ones as well. Whether you joined us the first time or are starting with us for Part 2 there will be plenty of poems to read and discuss.