Homing in on the poem
How are the ways a poem may be a home? Or us become a home to the poem by way of writing it? The idea, intention, actuality of, what we believe a home to be and what it serves or offers to us, when we are inside of one we name as ours. This generative workshop will seek to give space and create pathways towards exploring this idea, of letting the page be the hearth that warms us, the mantel we decorate, the door that welcomes us in––being less about communicating something with others and more about what our heart might give to itself, where we might have shelter from what falls upon us and the place whose walls stand to draw us closer to ourself. What is home, our home? Its smells, its color and light? What do we keep inside it, when we are gone, with what do we return to it?
Anis Mojgani served as Oregon’s 10th Poet Laureate, and is the author of six poetry collections, an opera libretto and a children’s picture book forthcoming. Originally from New Orleans, Anis lives in Portland.