Poems for Our Time: Giving Objects Agency

Interested in cultivating your inner poet? Join us for Poems for Our Time where we’ll slow down, explore contemporary poetry, and connect with our creativity. Hosted by writer, workshop facilitator, and meditation teacher, Grace Bialecki.

Poetry is a place of solace, a place of mystery, a place where we can delve deeper into life’s questions and return with unexpected answers. In our scattered world, reading poetry together is a way of connecting with our shared humanity. It’s a way of slowing the pace of our lives, so we can pay attention to new words and ideas.

Poems have the capacity to push the bounds of our imaginations, especially when authors introduce a new reality. We’ll read “Downhearted” by Ada Límon and talk about extending metaphors and creating distinct worlds for our own work.

By exploring contemporary American poetry together, we’ll come away with an understanding of our poetic zeitgeist, as well as tools for bringing poetry into our daily lives. Hosted by writer, workshop facilitator, and meditation teacher, Grace Bialecki. For more of her work, visit her website or find her on Twitter and TikTok.

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Recommended Readings:

• Downhearted by Ada Límon
• American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time compiled by Tracy K Smith
• The Slowdown Podcast hosted by Major Jackson
• Poetry Unbound Podcast hosted by Pádraig Ó Tuama