As poets, our lesson from
           Whitman and Dickinson is to aspire
           to circumference: an integration
           of ascent and descent. If my
           inclination is to ascend lyrically
           then I should strive to balance
           the poem by descending more
           specifically into the concrete
           details of the poem: to better
           discover my way back into the
           body, into humanity, into the
           effusive real. If I am in descent,
           pulled to the corporeal, expansive
           and inclusive—then my work is
           to ascend, to elevate into the
           numinous, the unknowable.

           From “Voicing the Whole: Poetry’s
           Impulse to Ascend and Descend”

The Power of the Image workshop at Coffee Buy the Book, Roswell

• Reader at Java Monkey, November 21, 2010
• Featured poet, Atlanta Writer's Club at Georgia Perimeter College, December 18, 2010
• Callanwolde Readings: Weds, Feb 9, 2011 at 8 pm (in the Library on the first floor of the mansion)

     Amy has taught workshops in independent classes conducted at
     local bookstores and for the Georgia Perimeter College’s Writer’s
     Circle.

     For more information about poetry workshops, you can contact Amy
     by email here.