Lit Fest 2024

Poetry is pinnacle language that is not its own end. The most powerful poems are charged with thrilling words, but also with the work words do in our lives, the connections they make with realities beyond the page. Good poems will leave a person, whether writer or reader, changed. This weekend intensive will be primarily generative, engaged in making new poems in what may at times be new ways. The intention will be to offer participants an expanded repertory of process, freedom, and direction in the lifelong conversation with events, emotions, perplexities both interior and outer, that poetry allows us to enter in its own distinctive and entirely sui generis ways.