Teaching Artist: Amie Whittemore
Dates: Monday, October 5-31, with access for an additional 30 days
Format: Asynchronous with weekly Zoom office hours at a time to be determined with cohort.
Description:
Writing about one’s lived experience can feel limiting if one must rely solely on what can be corroborated by others or rational paths to knowledge. So much of life happens in the uncharted waters of intuition and feeling.
In this class, we’ll sink into those uncharted waters with the help of dreams, rituals, spells, and tarot. We’ll read about these approaches to accessing our intuition, in addition to reading poems, flash nonfiction, and hybrid texts that exemplify how we can use these approaches in our creative work.
Crafted by
American Poets Laureate Fellow & 2020-21 Poet Laureate of Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Amie Whittemore (she/her) is the author of the poetry collections Glass Harvest (Autumn House Press), Star-tent: A Triptych (Tolsun Books), and Nest of Matches (Autumn House, 2024). Her poems have won multiple awards, including a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, and her poems and prose have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Nashville Review, Smartish Pace, Pleiades, and elsewhere. She is the Reviews Editor for Southern Indiana Review and teaches English at Middle Tennessee State University, where she directs MTSU Write, a from-home creative writing mentorship program.