Dharma Poetics
About this Retreat
Your Guides
Elizabeth Guthrie is a poet and performer living and practicing in the Hudson Valley, NY. She has an MFA from Naropa University and a practice-based PhD in text and performance from the University of East London. She teaches Creative Writing and Literature at SUNY New Paltz and is the founder of Stone Collective, co-editor of Livestock Editions, and curator of the Impossible Reading Series with work appearing in Onedit, Emergency Index, Alba Londres, Open Letter, Fact-Simile, the Chicago Review, Elderly Magazine, and the Archive of the Now. She has a pamphlet, X Portraits through Crater Press, a chapbook, Yellow and Red through Black Lodge Press, a collaborative chapbook Between Here and the Telescopes through Slumgullion Press, and a book entitled Portraits - Captions from Contraband Books along with the forthcoming Portraits - Negatives.
Details of this retreat
completely express that complete actual present." ~ Gertrude Stein
This workshop explores methods and themes of the open question and the resonate heart. We will be mindfully generating and framing Poetic Language in relationship with the landscape around us. We will use sensory awareness and writing exercises aimed at activating and exercising that place between the conscious mind and the non-conscious mind. These exercises include making use of sensory input and memory, automatic writing (as introduced by Andre Breton and the Surrealists) as well as William Burroughs's non-conscious and cut-up techniques.
There will be mid-week office hours (online) for those who would like support in revision and editing. We will culminate with a poetry reading open to the public on Friday evening 1/16.
Getting Here
Sky Lake Shambhala, 22 Hillcrest Lane, Rosendale, NY 12472
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