Poetry has long been composed to express the inexpressible: grief, fear, anxiety, love, loss, joy, etc. The veil of metaphor is a safe place under which to open our hearts and spill the beans, to turn ourselves inside out. With the increase of climate catastrophes and the uncertainty of the future and humanity’s place in it, therapy, and other types of emotional support, are needed more than ever. This workshop will give therapists a space to put their own feelings around climate change, as well as tools to help their clients express their own. We will use various poetry prompts to compose poems that bear witness to the changing world and that offer visions of hope. Space will be limited to 12 people.
*All participants will have an opportunity to attend / participate in an intergenerational poetry reading next spring.
Date and Times:
Sunday, November 6, 2022
1:00pm - 2:30pm (PT) / 4:00pm-5:30pm (ET)
Facilitator: Sarah Kobrinsky; Sponsored by CPA-NA's Expressive Arts Subcommittee
Sarah Kobrinsky was the 2013-2015 Poet Laureate of Emeryville, CA. She is the author of Nighttime on the Other Side of Everything (New Rivers Press, 2019). Her poems and stories have appeared in Magma Poetry, Red Light Lit, Eleven Eleven, Monkeybicycle, *82 Review, 100 Word Story, Fjords Review, among many others. She was long-listed for the 2019 University of Canberra Vice Chancellor's Poetry Prize. She was born in Canada, raised in North Dakota, seasoned in England, and tempered in California. Sarah and her husband have a handmade ceramic dinnerware company called Jered's Pottery.