A seed is planted. If the seed finds fertile ground, nourishment, and time to grow, it can start to take shape as a poem. The poet’s job is to keep breathing warmth into the seed until it starts to grow on its own. Ruelaine will read poems that have grown from such seeds and tell the stories of how they grew into poems.

Join us and Ruelaine Stokes, current Lansing Poet Laureate. This workshop will provide writing activities that tap into key moments in your life that made deep impressions on your mind, and prompt you to recall details to give flesh to a poem. We will use both narrative and associative thinking to bring poems to life.

Join us for a poetry reading by George Ella Lyon, former Poet Laureate of Kentucky.