Tea and Tattered Pages: Adventures in Poetry
“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.” -W. H. Auden
Program Description:
Tea and Tattered Pages is a multi-faceted program designed to bring poetry closer to the fore in our lives, and perhaps create a small community around it. Our activities include reading, writing, discussing, reciting, and trying to
live poetry.
There will be no fixed agenda for events; rather, forthcoming events will usually be decided by vote as we move through the year, and published as things are decided. You can get a sense of what sorts of activities we will be doing on the program's web page:
Tea and Tattered Pages
October Agenda
At our October kickoff meeting, participants will each bring a favorite poem to share — and hopefully read out loud — and discuss why it is a favorite. We will also discuss the various activities listed on the program's web page, make additions, deletions, or changes as desired, and select an activity for the November meeting.
General Guidelines
In general, registration for each activity will open the day after the previous activity finishes. Registration for the October meeting will open on Sunday, 14 September.
If you have any questions, please contact literature@wice-paris.org
Our Poet-in-Residence: Heather Hartley
Heather Hartley’s poetry collections include Adult Swim and Knock Knock, both published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. She was Paris Editor for Tin House magazine for over fifteen years.
Her short fiction, poems, essays and interviews have appeared in or on PBS Newshour, The Guardian, The Literary Review and other venues. She teaches creative writing at the University of Kent’s (UK) Paris School of Arts and Culture and has also taught at the American University of Paris and the University of Texas El Paso MFA program.
www.heatherhartleyink.com
