Write Your Heart Out
with Danielle Riccardi and Jay Erickson

Poetry as a practice for connecting with your emotional body, moving energy and remembering 

Join Danielle Riccardi and Jay Erickson, two local semi-pro published writers for a workshop designed to unleash your inner poet and explore memory. On this Memorial Day weekend, we will move through a practice of gathering, weaving and adorning memory as we move towards wholeness through the yoga of re-membering. 

We will use an adaption of the “JournalLadder” process to start simple and small and build to an expression that allows for writing to be a release, healing, insight, or sense-making. 

We will explore the yoga of poetry and how a poem, like a physical form, can constellate and contain a certain shape of energy or memory and how the music and imagery and vast permission of poetry is nothing to fear or avert but a vast playground and dancefloor for all those who have language. 

No experience is necessary—this workshop is open to complete beginners, curious writers, and experienced poets alike. Come as you are and leave with new ideas, new writing, and a fresh way of looking at memory in poetry.

Consider bringing comfortable clothes. And alliteration (or a dash of sibilance).