Salty Spring Poets Club
Salty Spring Poets Club
$68 Members | $85 Non-Members
6:00–8:00 pm
Sign up at any time!
Spring 2024 Dates:
March: 7, 14, 21, 28
April: 4, 11, 18, 25
May: 2, 9, 16, 23
Poetry is language at its most distilled and powerful.
—Rita Dove
In the first four weeks of Salty Spring Poets Club, as we dub,
we’ll pour language into poetic forms: sonnet! Haiku!
Calibrating language with power and intent, breaking
boundaries, breaking norms, it’ll get really intense!
Each meeting, we’ll read poems written by living poets
and write our own poems, don’t you know it!
Using the Everson’s permanent collection and rotating exhibitions,
we’ll write in response to artworks and cast away our inhibitions!
At the end of the month, we’ll perform for loved ones and peers,
producing a portfolio of four poems for all readers and seers.
Instructor Bio:
Misha Tentser is the Arizona-born son of Ukrainian immigrants. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Sonora Review, Terrain.org, and North American Review, where his poem “Half Kaddish” was a finalist for the 2023 James Hearst Poetry Prize. Misha is a community educator, translator, MFA candidate in Poetry at Syracuse University, and the author of the chapbook Born in the Wrong Desert (Mouthfeel Press, 2023).
