What's It All About?

Poems that make Jewish sense of Nature. Led by Susan Comninos over four workshops: November 13, 20 and Dec 4 & 11. $60 Registration for all four. If you are a walk-in for a single class, each will be $15.00.

Have you ever witnessed a striking scene involving nature, like swans feeding in a flooded park, a bear rounding a corner of a neighborhood street, or a deer snacking on berries in a parking lot? 

Making full sense of it can be hard, especially if we want to go beyond much of contemporary poetry's tendency toward environmental despair -- and instead or also explore what can make such a scene illuminating, remarkable or even redemptive.

In this poetry course, we'll discuss published poems and write new ones that compare our witnessing of nature to stories from the Tanakh or Jewish values. (Think: what might the Noah story have to tell us about the meaning of soggy lawns? And how might the Jewish belief that life is sacred inform a poet's take on a field of poppies or a possum at the side of the road?)

As part of this course, you'll be invited to take walks in nature, reflect on encounters with the wild, and ask yourself in focused way: what's it all about?

REGISTER HERE: https://www.cgoh.org/event/whats-it-all-about.html