Name: Searching for a Language of a Different Yield - Page Poetry workshop with Rita Bouvier
Start: 2024-07-07T13:00:00-06:00
End: 2024-07-07T15:00:00-06:00
Location: Oskayak High School

Searching for a Language of a Different Yield - Page Poetry workshop with Rita Bouvier

Linda Hogan in Dwellings – A Spiritual History of the Living World (1995) writes: “We are looking for a tongue that speaks with reverence for life, searching for an ecology of mind. Without it, we have no home, have no place of our own within the creation. It is not only the vocabulary of science we desire. We want a language of that different yield. A yield rich as the harvests of earth, a yield that returns us to our own sacredness, to a self-love and respect that will carry out to others.” (p.60)
Hogan’s vision leading the way, the workshop will provide a safe, structured environment for participants to exercise the power of language applying their knowing, the quartet of their whole being – physical, emotional, mental and spiritual, their experiences and imaginations to create new poetry and to share their works-in-progress (optional).
Tickets are by donation/pay what you want: https://www.ticketsource.us/write-out-loud/searching-for-a-language-of-a-different-yield-page-poetry-workshop-with-rita-bouvier/e-qlzmmm
A little more about our facilitator:
Rita Bouvier is a Métis writer, editor and retired educator. Her fourth book of poetry, a beautiful rebellion released April 2023 by Thistledown Press, was inspired by the Idle No More movement. It honours an ongoing resistance… of an unconquerable love for family, community,
land and life itself. She lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Treaty 6), but home is sakitawak—Île-à-la-Crosse, Saskatchewan, Canada situated on the historic trading and meeting grounds of Cree and Dene people (Treaty 10). She currently serves as a volunteer with the Saskatchewan
Ânskohk Writers Circle Inc. and the Indigenous Editors Association.