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Description
This workshop is designed for all types of writers.
We will read and discuss several of the poems below, delving into the many faces of giving while also exploring figurative language, form, imagery, and tone. Each writer will then lift a single line from one of the poems we discuss as a starting place and write for 30 minutes. Writers are then invited to share their work if they choose. Using what they've written as inspiration, each writer will compose a piece to share at their Thanksgiving table.
POEMS
“Perhaps the World Ends Here” by U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo
“When Giving Is All We Have” by Alberto Ríos
“Thanks” by W.S. Merwin
“The Thanksgivings” by Harriet Maxwell Converse
“Dusting” by Marilyn Nelson
“Red Brocade” by Naomi Shihab Nye
“A Toast” by Ilya Kaminsky
“Starfish” by Eleanor Lerman
“Earth Your Dancing Place” by May Swenson
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“Escape to the Page” is a no-pressure, come-as-you-are creative writing adventure designed for reluctant and enthusiastic writers alike. It's an invitation to pour yourself (your messy, conflicted, sublime, sometimes timid, sometimes brave self) onto the page. For more infomation on the process, please visit www.escapetothepage.net
SONDRA HALL loves words and all of the stunning, lyrical, surprising and stirring ways they can be strung together. For more than twenty-four years, she has gathered with students in college and elementary school classrooms, in old Tuscan farmhouses, at retreat centers and around kitchen tables to explore the curiosities, the power and the joys of the written word. She holds a BA in Art History from Tufts University, an MA in Creative Arts Therapy from Lesley University, and lives happily amongst the flora and fauna of Asheville, N.C., with her musician husband, Alan, and curly-haired dog, Willow.
Date & Time
Nov 5 - 7, 2026
Venue Details
Mars Landing Arts Center - Gallery level
37 Library StreetMars Hill, North Carolina 28754
