Month: February 2018

Class 1: The Muse and the Mystics: The Poetry of Rumi and the Ecstatic Makers Who or what is this friend called Muse? How close does she live to the soul? What did Rumi (1207), Hafez (1326), and Kabir (1440) know and write about 500 to 800 years ago that serve as a language compass,…
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Class 2: Writings From Turtle Island: The Best of Native American Poetry (To be added soon) How can we describe Native American poetry, nee Indigenous verse? Harper’s Anthology of 20th Century Native American Poetry calls it the poetry of “historic witness”. For the purposes of this class we can go deeper into the oral tradition of any indigenous…
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