Trobriand Islanders say that the larynx is the seat of moral intelligence. The larynx provides us with a unique ability to communicate our ideas, memories, and experiences. Poetry is always an attempt to refine a sense of balance through language, for one’s own life and the lives of those around us. In this workshop we will listen to a tale from the Kalevala, use it as a simple prompt for a simple exercise and write from personal experience. Then we will recite aloud our own words and listen to one another’s moral intelligence.
Poet bio: Timothy Young has five books of published poetry and numerous chapbooks and essays. Scribner’s The Best American Poetry of 1999 includes his poetry and Garrison Keillor has read his poetry on The Writer’s Almanac. Since 1982 he has performed with musicians in many genres and recorded three CDs of his poetry with musical compositions.
He has also worked as a state cattle inspector, a maintenance man at a Totonac Indian Clinic in Mexico, a police dispatcher in North Pole, Alaska, a small newspaper editor, and a teacher at the juvenile correctional facility in Red Wing, Minnesota. For over forty years he has taught, organized or served as president for the Minnesota Men’s Conferences, begun by Robert Bly.
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