Attending to Everyday Ecstasy with Betsy Fagin

Six Thursdays, June 11–July 16

NEW Registration Deadline: June 5

This workshop is offered via Zoom, a free video conferencing app.

Workshop registration includes free Zoom tutorial.

Class Dates:
Thursday, June 11, 6–8:30pm
Thursday, June 18, 6–8:30pm
Thursday, June 25, 6–8:30pm
Thursday, July 2, 6–8:30pm
Thursday, July 9, 6–8:30pm
Thursday, July 16, 6–8:30pm

With inspiration and guidance from Mary Oliver, we will “Pay attention. / Be astonished. / Tell about it.” In this practical workshop, we’ll dive into Oliver’s work and make use of location to cultivate attention as we listen to the world and explore our “place in the family of things.” We will create new poems and investigate earnestness, accessibility, and darkness in Oliver’s work, focusing on Dream Work and Devotions.

Betsy Fagin is the author of the collections All Is Not Yet Lost and Names Disguised and a number of chapbooks. Fagin was awarded a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Poetry in 2017.