Tea and Tattered Pages: Adventures in Poetry
“Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.” -Carl Sandburg
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.
You can get a sense of what sorts of activities we will be doing on the program's web page:
Tea and Tattered Pages
December Agenda
December will be our first foray into writing poetry. Our poet-in-residence, Heather Hartley, will lead the session with readings and provide writing prompts that will serve as departure points for creating a poem. The goal is to prepare us for a measured, step-wise process over the coming months that leads to us writing the one poem we have inside us that we've always wanted to write.
This session will accommodate sixteen attendees: eleven in person, and five on Zoom. We've set up a pricing structure that acknowledges the two different modes. Cancellation with a refund is only available until Monday, 15 December.
Note: This is the first of four inter-connected poetry writing sessions that will culminate in May 2026. Due to this modality, the sessions are only open to 1-year WICE members and WICE volunteers.
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
