Instructor: Marilyn McEntyre, PhD * / Online, Zoom

We’ll be reflecting on what poetry has to do with maintaining a commitment to truth telling and how the practice of poetry—reading it and writing it—can attune us to language in important and invigorating ways. There will be time to try out some exercises in making poetry and in “creative reading” in this interactive evening.

General fee $25 / Student fee $10

* Marilyn McEntyre, a longtime professor of literature and medical humanities, teaches for New College and Westmont College, and is on the faculty of Western Seminary’s “Sacred Art of Writing” doctor of ministry program as well as the “Forest Dwelling” program at the Oblate School of Theology. She offers spiritual retreats and writing workshops and continues to write about spirituality, language, healthcare and earth care. She also works as a writing coach. Her recent books include When Poets Pray, Speaking Peace in a Climate of Conflict, and a collection of lenten readings, Where the Eye Alights.