Into the Woods: Poems from Nature - Linda Aldrich

May 9-11, 2008
Three-day workshop, limited to 10 participants
Tuition: $450
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Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself?

---Henry David Thoreau, Walden

This poetry workshop will focus on the varied ways nature surrounds and inhabits our writing. Participants will read nature-based poems by well-known writers to study how natural images are used. Are they records of witness? Metaphors for human existence? Reflections of or triggers for the inner emotional state of the speaker? We will walk into natural landscapes to do some writing of our own and will let writing exercises further the discovery. New writing will be emphasized for workshop and discussion.

faculty

Linda grew up in New Hampshire and recently moved back to Vermont from Colorado, where she taught Creative Writing, English, and Humanities at Aims Community College. She has an M.A. in Theatre Arts from Florida State University and an M.F.A. in Writing from Vermont College. Linda has conducted numerous workshops to help poets better present their poems at readings. Her chapbook Foothold will be published by Finishing Line Press this March 2008. Her poems have been widely published in journals, among them Indiana Review, Cimarron Review, Elixir, The Denver Quarterly, Ellipsis, The Florida Review, Poet Lore, Third Coast, and Puerto del Sol.  Her poem “Woman-without-Arms” won the Emily Dickinson Award 2000 from Universities West Press. Linda lives in Marlboro, Vermont, with her husband David and their exceptional dog Piper.