ACCENTS ORIGINALS CRAFT SERIES

Writing in Animal Time with Greg Pape

Animals can offer the poet a means of connection to the natural world and our own deepest natures. 

By imagining the lives of animals or trying to see from an animal’s point of view we can gain perspective and insight into our own lives.  Contemplation of animals’ lives reinforces our sense of connection and empathy with all other creatures, including people.  In this short course we will discuss four facets of writing in animal time: observation, recollection, meditation, and description.  And we will read and consider several poems as examples or models for generating our own work. Electronic copy of Animal Time is included in the enrolment fee.

Thursday, 4/14 6:00 to 7:30pm

$30.00

Online

To register, go to:

https://on.zoom.us/e/view/N6iNkBwnQA-TkN0xBTVSLQ?id=N6iNkBwnQA-TkN0xBTVSLQ

Greg Pape is the author of Four Swans, Animal Time, American Flamingo (Crab Orchard Open Competition Award), Sunflower Facing the Sun (Edwin Ford Piper Prize, now called the Iowa Prize), Storm Pattern, Black Branches, Border Crossings (Pitt Poetry Series), and other books.  His work has received the Discovery/The Nation Award, two National Endowment for the Arts Individual Fellowships, the Richard Hugo Memorial Poetry Award, the Pushcart Prize, and other awards.  His poems have appeared in The Atlantic, Colorado Review, Field, The Florida Review, Iowa Review, The Louisville Review, Miramar, The New Yorker, Poetry, and others.