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

• Callanwolde Readings: Weds, Feb 9, 2011 at 8 pm (in the Library on the first floor of the mansion)
• Pine Lake Art Salon Reading: Sunday March 6, 2011 at 3pm, Pine Lake, Georgia
• Horton's Bookstore Reading: Saturday April 2, 2011 at 6pm, Carrollton, Georgia
• College of Southern Nevada Reading: Thursday April 7, 2011 at 7pm, Las Vegas, Nevada

     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.