https://wice-paris.org/tea-and-tattered-pages WICE upcoming events WICE Wild Apricot - membership management software and more en Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:01:32 GMT Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:01:32 GMT Sat, 16 May 2026 12:30:00 GMT <p><font style="font-size: 20px;"><strong>Tea and Tattered Pages: Adventures in Poetry</strong></font></p> <p style="font-size: 18px;"><font face="Roboto" style="font-size: 18px;"><em><span>&nbsp;</span><span><font color="#000000">"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know this is poetry."</font></span></em> <span><span><font color="#000000">-Emily Dickinson</font></span></span></font></p> <p><strong><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Program Description:</font></strong></p><em>Tea and Tattered Pages</em> 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 <em>live&nbsp;</em>poetry. <p>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:</p> <blockquote style="font-size: 18px;"> <p><a href="https://wice-paris.org/tea-and-tattered-pages" target="_blank">Tea and Tattered Pages</a></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>May Agenda</strong></p>The May agenda will focus on reading and discussing poetry in translation. Specifically, we will read and discuss one or more poems by both Charles Baudelaire and Guillaume Apollinaire in two or more translations. We will finish the session by dividing into small groups, all groups having the same poem to read and to interpret, and then having a full group discussion about our findings and how they compare&nbsp;and contrast. <p style="background-color: transparent;"><strong><strong><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Instructors: Heather Hartley</font></strong></strong></p> <p style="background-color: transparent;"><img src="https://wice-paris.org/resources/Pictures/Activities/Literature/Poetry/260314_Lit_Poetry_Hartley-Heather.jpg" alt="" title="" border="0" align="left" style="max-width:150px; margin: 8px;">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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p><a href="http://www.heatherhartleyink.com" target="_blank">www.heatherhartleyink.com</a></p><br> https://wice-paris.org/event-6651959 https://wice-paris.org/event-6651959 Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:30:00 GMT <p><font style="font-size: 20px;"><strong>Tea and Tattered Pages: Adventures in Poetry</strong></font></p> <p style="font-size: 18px;"><font face="Roboto" style="font-size: 18px;"><em><span>&nbsp;</span><span><font color="#000000">"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know this is poetry."</font></span></em> <span><span><font color="#000000">-Emily Dickinson</font></span></span></font></p> <p><strong><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Program Description:</font></strong></p><em>Tea and Tattered Pages</em> 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 <em>live&nbsp;</em>poetry. <p>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:</p> <blockquote style="font-size: 18px;"> <p><a href="https://wice-paris.org/tea-and-tattered-pages" target="_blank">Tea and Tattered Pages</a></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>June Agenda</strong></p> <p>The June agenda has yet to be determined, but we are considering joint readings by poet-in-residence Heather Hartley and haiku writer/teacher Anna Eklund-Cheong.</p> <p>The agenda will be finalized by 9 May.</p> <p>If you have any questions, please contact literature@wice-paris.org</p> <p style="background-color: transparent;"><strong><strong><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Instructors:</font></strong></strong></p> <p style="background-color: transparent;"><strong><strong><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Heather Hartley</font></strong></strong></p> <p style="background-color: transparent;"><img src="https://wice-paris.org/resources/Pictures/Activities/Literature/Poetry/260314_Lit_Poetry_Hartley-Heather.jpg" alt="" title="" border="0" align="left" style="max-width:150px; margin: 8px;">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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p><a href="http://www.heatherhartleyink.com" target="_blank">www.heatherhartleyink.com</a></p><br> https://wice-paris.org/event-6584478 https://wice-paris.org/event-6584478