Garden City, KS
Statue near the Arts Center, Garden City, KS
Event: Begin Again: 150 Kansas Poems reading and writing workshop on making community through writing, Fri., Nov. 18, 7 p.m. reading; Sat., Nov. 19, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. writing workshop.
Facilitator: Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, carynmirriamgoldberg@gmail.com
Summary: As part of a reading tour for Begin Again: 150 Kansas Poems, the poet laureate of Kansas, Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, is leading a workshop on making community through writing open to people in Southwestern Kansas, an area hit hard by arts funding cuts, as well as to about a dozen poets on tour for the reading. The workshop will bring together people who mostly live in small towns set many miles apart to write their way toward greater connection with each other and understanding of how the land where they live shapes their lives and speaks through their souls.
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg is the poet laureate of Kansas and author of more than a dozen books, including four collections of poetry, and The Sky Begins At Your Feet: A Memoir on Cancer, Community & Coming Home to the Body. Founder of Transformative Language Arts at Goddard College where she teaches, she leads writing workshops widely for many populations, and with singer Kelley Hunt, writing and singing workshops and collaborative performances.
