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Poet-TREE -- Taste and Texture of Home: A Furious Flower Center Poetry Workshop for Everyone!

Poet-TREE -- Taste and Texture of Home: A Furious Flower Center Poetry Workshop for Everyone!

What is home to you? In what are you rooted? A patch of the earth, the silver and scent of rain, a song, prayer, the voice of your brother, the smell of ocean? Is home the smell of a plant or the taste of a fruit, the color of a scarf, a smile, a touch, or even a memory? Is home a place you are always running toward or running away from? In this two-hour poetry workshop, participants will be led through poems, plants, prompts, art works, photographs, and sensory cues to ponder and examine through memory and imagination what the idea of home invokes in them. We will end with the option to add our poems to our Poet-TREE in the Arboretum for others to enjoy during Poetry Month. The workshop is open to participants of all ages and all are welcome. Registration required.

Frances Plecker Education Center
12:30 PM - 02:30 PM on Sat, 19 Apr 2025

Event Supported By

Edith J. Carrier Arboretum
540-568-3194
ejcarboretum@jmu.edu
Frances Plecker Education Center
800 main st
Harrisonburg, Virginia 22807