(here's the official plug for the Poetry Workshops beginning Monday night)
Poets, Poetry and Pastoral Imagination: The Poetry of Lament and Longing
ATS Spring 2009 Poetry Workshop
Monday nights in March (3/2, 3/9, 3/16, and 3/23), 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Royal Auditorium, Kentucky Campus
Everyone is welcome! Participation is free!
Reflection is a dying art in our post-modern, go-go-go culture. With so many distractions, who has time to think about what's happening in the moment? But our God asks us to stop and be quiet, for he is found in silence. When we stop long enough to reflect, we often understand the profound sense of pain that many of us haul around and try to ignore. Why not embrace that hardship with honest lament? If reflection is dying, lament is dead. It's time for us to slow down, be quiet, and write our grief, sadness, pain, and frustration and bring it to the light.
Every Monday in March, Asbury Seminary students will have the chance to lament. David Harrity, literary critic, teacher, and author ("Morning and What Has Come Since," Finishing Line Press, 2007) will be our guide to putting down our burdens in verse. During each two-hour session, students will have the opportunity to see how writers are seeking to commune with God through poetry in current literary culture. We'll be studying the laments of ancient and contemporary authors; discussing elements of literature, craft, and vocation; conversing about spiritual dynamics and their connections to the 'act of crying out'; and spending time together in poetry practice through writing exercises and workshops exploring what it means to be a poet, a pastor, and a creative thinker.
For questions contact Anna Fleming via email, [email protected].