Ellis to lead poetry workshop in Rockland, Republican Journal reports

The Republican Journal reported Kathleen Ellis, who teaches English and in the Honors College at the University of Maine, will lead a poetry workshop at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland. The Flexing Your Muscles workshop will run from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday through Friday, March 12–16, according to the article. Workshop participants will expand their range of poetry writing styles and explore new strategies for re-energizing their work by creating and stretching tension and surprise. Using models of contemporary poets, as well as current exhibits at the Farnsworth, they will jump-start new poems based on what they see, read, imagine and re-vision, The Republican Journal reported.