Poetry Workshop with Therese Broderick

Crazy Grass: Poetry At Ease

In this workshop, we will learn how to relax with our poems, whether our poems be happy or sad, angry or serene, questing afar or delving within. Each two-hour session will include: three minutes of OPTIONAL seated and simple moving of head, hands, feet; fifteen minutes of sharing our insights from the previous day; thirty minutes of writing from a daily prompt; ten minutes for a break; thirty minutes of OPTIONAL reading aloud from our writing or from the writing of a favorite author; twenty minutes exploring a topic chosen by the participants; ten minutes of closure. No previous experience with poetry is required.

Therese L. Broderick, MFA, MLS, has served the community of writers in Albany, New York, for more than nineteen years in numerous roles, including board officer, contest judge, classroom guest poet, and facilitator for the Albany Area Poetry Chat monthly discussions. Her poems have been published in many venues, both paper (Poet Lore) and digital (Barzakh); and have received several awards, including an Intro Journals Project prize from the Association of Writers & Writing Programs, and the Overall Winner prize from The Poetry Project with Poetry Ireland. She is the author of four chapbooks, the most recent of which, Green-Weak, is available for free at https://redwolfjournal.wordpress.com. Her first full-length collection, Breath Debt: Poems, was published in 2018 and is available at http://www.pagepublishing.com/books/?book=breath-debt Therese can be found on Twitter, Goodreads, and her WordPress blog entitled Poet Apace.