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Poetry project begins with inquiry into resilience and the human spirit
“There is a small world of people interested in human rights and writing,” says Marjory Wentworth, Poet Laureate of South Carolina.
Wentworth and three other poets from that small world, Carolyn Forche, Taha Muhammed Ali, and Peter Cole, will be here, in our island world, this weekend at the first session of the 2008 Block Island Poetry Workshop, “Poetry, Resilience, and the Human Spirit.”
“They are looking for a way to process their emotions. They are afraid, confused and angry,” Wentworth said. “When people get that sick they have little control. They’re told what to do. “
“It was a great way to process the information,” she explained. “There is a redemptive quality in creating a poem about these things.”
This weekend, Wentworth and Forche will team up to do a workshop together. “We’ll teach reading between the lines. We’ll write poems from newspaper clippings.”
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