VillageSoup advances Ellis’ winter poetry workshop in Rockland

VillageSoup reported Kathleen Ellis, who teaches English in the Honors College at the University of Maine, will lead a poetry workshop at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland. The Triggering New Poems workshop is set from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 13–17 at the downtown museum. Participants will expand their range of poetry writing styles and explore new strategies for re-energizing their work, according to the article. Using models of contemporary poets, as well as current exhibits at the Farnsworth, participants will jump-start new poems based on what they see, read and imagine, the article states. Poets and visual artists of all levels are welcome.