Perchance to Dream: Crafting Our Dreams Into Poems (V)

Poetry, from its earliest known incarnation, has been shaped of dreams. The very architecture of what we call a poem may originate in our innate capacity for dreaming. We’ll read and discuss the work of a range of contemporary poets who write successfully and movingly from their dreams, looking with a keen eye at the craft moves that have made the private experience of a dream into a shared and inspiring experience for a reader. Then we’ll experiment with shaping our own dream(s) into poems. Bring a dream (or two or three), written or held in memory.