Workshops for Writers - April 4: Freedom in Form—The Poetics of Haiku and Ghazal
Celebrate National Poetry Month with poets Ben Moeller-Gaa and Jennifer Lynn at a free online workshop from 10 a.m. to noon, April 4. Join these award-winning poets for a glimpse into the structures of their respective poetics. Then peek with their souls beyond the forms themselves, to the liminal space where passion creates, poetry is born, and freedom reigns.
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Ben Moeller-Gaa is "your friendly neighborhood haiku poet" from St. Louis, Missouri. He is a Pushcart nominee and author of the 2018 Touchstone Award winner, Wishbones (Folded Word 2018), a full-length collection of haiku and senryu, as well as three chapbooks, Fiddle in the Floorboards (Yavanika Press 2018), Blowing on a Hot Soup Spoon (poor metaphor 2014) and the Pushcart-nominated Wasp Shadows (Folded Word 2014). His poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies around the globe. He has a degree in Creative Writing from Knox College, works as a Senior IT Functional Analyst for MilliporeSigma, and enjoys travel, music, art and other worldly meanderings. Find out more about Ben at www.benmoellergaa.com.
Jennifer Lynn is a soul midwife, a shamanic Druid Priestess, and a modern-day mystic specializing in Celtic mystical techniques and practices. Jennifer gives voice to her Bardic craft through poetry and prose. Her award-winning poems have appeared in magazines and journals internationally, including The Beltane Papers, Rowan Press, Sage Woman, and Sacred Hoop Magazine, and she was selected as a 2012-2013 Featured Poet for Sibella Poetry Magazine. Jennifer is the author of the mystical fiction series Bree MacLeod’s Story (Being Here, Coming Home, and The Chalice and the Blade), and her first non-fiction book, A Year and a Day, is scheduled for release in 2020. Her writings explore the rhythms of life while honoring the Goddess and the Sacred Conversation. Jennifer is also a Chinese medicine practitioner and a Minister of the Circle of the Sacred Earth, a church of animism fostering shamanic principles and practices. Follow Jennifer and her writings at www.ThroughShamansEyes.wordpress.com.
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