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Journaling as a Contemplative Practice: Using the poetry and journals of Joanne Kyger as a lens for prompts, list making, and navigating the every day.
How does blending the real and imagined shift the tone or meaning of your writing?
Images from Joanne’s 1969 residency at The Center for Experimental Television
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We won’t use the book til Week Two! And if you can’t get it thats ok too.
We will dedicate ourselves to the practice of journaling by studying the works of Joanne Kyger, a poet deeply invested in Buddhism, the ordinary rhythms of life, and the astute noticing of nature and its many forms.
Each week we will study a different era of her life, starting with her travels in Japan and India, the Boulder years, and the end of her life in Bolinas.
We will reflect on the inner and outer landscapes through writing prompts, meditation, and journaling.
I’ll share a bit about my own connection to Joanne’s work as a starting point. In week three of class you will pick your own favorite poet to research more about as I did for building out this class.
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We will then move into a lecture about a specific period of Joanne Kyger’s life, her work, and practices that we might incorporate into our own writing life.
We will move through a series of writing prompts each week influenced by Kyger’s work and words, tuning in to our own writing styles.
We will create a set of weekly journaling assignments for ourselves to track the days in poetic and practical ways.
We will take time to share the assignments with each other and anything else that came up during class.
If your camera is on I may call on you to share back your findings, but you are always encouraged to pass. You can also always use the chat to share findings and questions. I keep track of both.
A WEEK BY WEEK DESCRIPTION:
WALKING TOWARD A CENTER
What is the center and how do we approach it? In our first week we will set up our systems, choose a poet to research, and map out how we will spend our three weeks of class
Keeping a daily notebook keeps your hand to writing and you get ready - poems can come out of this daily framework
THIS MOMENT IS A PLACE
In week two we will study the Naropa years and Joanne’s teaching methods and prompts from some of her classes that are from the Archives.
We will use a series of prompts and I will also introduce us to the contemplative tracking spreadsheet - which you can find here
We will use this to track the different practices we are looking to strengthen during our time together and beyond.
We will discuss where we live and how to be in community both in person and online and how that impacts our creative spirits.
THE SHAPE OF THE MORNING
This week is really about taking the ephemeral lessons of the course and giving it clear structure for taking the work into or creative writing practice, practice of public sharing, and more.
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WHO IS TEACHING THIS CLASS?
Consider this before you sign up - when signing up you are consenting to taking a class with a tornado person - This class is taught by Cody Cook-Parrott, an artist and writer, who has been self employed and teaching online classes since 2017.
They are a hermit and a social person and many things and skilled at planning as a Gemini, Human Design Manifestor, Queer person, freak, and artist. They love to create fun and joyful containers for figuring out how to live in the world as an expert of nothing, a devotee to the mystery.
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REGISTRATION IS OPEN
Class is $222 or two monthly payments of $111 or three monthly payments of $74
If you are experiencing financial hardship and would like to take the class with a scholarship to make class $111 use code TAPESTRYSCHOLARSHIP
Please consider using a payment plan before you use the scholarship code, I trust you to take an honest account of your own spending before making this decision.
Class is $222 or two monthly payments of $111 or three monthly payments of $74
If you are experiencing financial hardship and would like to take the class with a scholarship to make class $111 use code TAPESTRYSCHOLARSHIP
Please consider using a payment plan before you use the scholarship code, I trust you to take an honest account of your own spending before making this decision.
When you write poetry, you find the architecture of your lineage.
Alice Notley
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