Description
“Every poem is a thank you letter, an IOU and a complaint to the management.”
—Alice Waters
This workshop is based on what inspired Judyth Hill to write the internationally famous poem “Wage Peace” and what she learned from writing it. It will be a high-energy, hands-on, how-to workshop with inspiring exercises and handouts jam-packed with stirring global poetry that speaks for, sings for, and brings change.
We’ll learn to write lyrically, passionately, and effectively for peace and climate attention; age, racial, and gender equality—whatever is important to us. We’ll leave with exciting, usable tools to powerfully explore and offer our vision as activist-artists—jazzed, juiced, and ready to be the voices our time and culture need.
Bring a work in progress (all genres welcome).
About Judyth Hill
Judyth Hill—poet, maestra, and editor—authored the internationally acclaimed poem “Wage Peace.” Educated at Sarah Lawrence College, she studied with Robert Bly, Galway Kinnell, and Deep-Ecologist Dolores LaChapelle. Her nine published books of poetry include Dazzling Wobble and Writing Down the Moon. Her poems are widely anthologized. The recipient of grants from the Witter Bynner Poetry Foundation, McCune Foundation, and New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities, Hill served from 1994 to 2000 as Literary Projects Coordinator for the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs. Hill is the chair of PEN International Women Writers Committee; president emerita of San Miguel PEN Centre; codirector of Poetry Mesa, a global poetry organization; editor-in-chief of the hybrid publishing company Wild Rising Press; and an Anusara Yoga special subjects instructor. Originator of the WildWriting poetry process, she conducts workshops worldwide and on Zoom; offers one-on-one manuscript editing and mentoring; and leads Muse on the Move literary adventures in Taos, New Mexico, Ireland, and Mexico. She was described by the St. Helena Examiner as “energy with skin” and by The Denver Post as a “tigress with a pen.”
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