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SUMMARY:Vermont Jewish Poets - Summer Gathering 2026
DESCRIPTION:Summer Gathering 2026\nJuly 19\, 2026\n9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.\nBeth Jacob Synagogue\n10 Harrison Ave.\, Montpelier\, VT 05602 \nA day to read our poems and share creative sources\, to write and to deepen connection. Our time together this year includes member-led generative workshops\, options for structured conversation about being Jewish poets here and now\, about aesthetic and spiritual approaches to poetry\, and an interactive workshop on an aspect of craft. \n  \nREGISTRATION IS REQUIRED \n  \nOpen to all Vermont poets who self-identify as Jewish \n\nBeth Jacob Synagogue is wheelchair accessible\, microphones will be used \n\nMore information: judyburlington@gmail.com \n  \n\nWhat to expect:\nMorning workshop: Playful Expression by Judith Taylor\nTwo ideas inform this expressive exercise. \nOne is from Jane Hirshfield:\nEncounter with the unknown seems almost a nutrient in human life… The trick then is discovering how much\, and when\, to admit the random\, chaotic\, unknowable into our lives… This is where transformations lie. \nThe other is from Stanley Kunitz:\nIn a sense\, all creativity is a process of giving meaning to what is on a universal scale meaningless. \nOur days are filled with mysteries and creative challenges. How we respond to them reveals something about who we are\, how we live our lives\, and how we do the work that’s ours to do. One way of engaging with these opportunities is through play\, which is at the heart of creativity. This workshop is an invitation to explore the possible ways that mystery and play can deepen our self-knowledge and the poems that we make. \nRound-robin readings: bring one poem to read aloud to the group  \nBYO brown bag lunch\, fruit and water supplied \nBook swap\, your own or books you’d like to trade  \nBrowse samples of people’s other creative expressions that feed their poetry \nSchmooze and move around \nAfternoon Structured Conversation Options: \n\nBeing a Jewish Poet now: facilitated by Zelda Alpern\nWhat does it mean to you to be Jewish and a writer of poetry at this moment? How does being Jewish influence your writing? How are you currently relating to/grappling with your Jewish identity? How does this show up or not show up in your poems? Depending on the size of the group\, we may practice some structured listening exercises.\nApproaching A Poem: led by TBD\nUsing a collection of quotations about poetry from many sources\, we’ll discuss which ones ring a bell for us\, puzzle us\, delight us\, or annoy us. How might they influence the poems we might write? Quotations compiled by Judith Taylor\n\nAfternoon Craft Workshop led by Ivy Schweitzer \nIvy Schweitzer is the author of Dividing Rivers: Poems\, from Finishing Line Press\, 2025.  \nAn interactive workshop to delve into the basics of repetition in poetry. We will discuss examples of repetition in content and form and try our hands at a poem that uses repetition. You might bring a line or two of poetry to the workshop (original or from a poem you love) that you might want to develop. \n 
URL:https://ohavizedek.org/event/vermont-jewish-poets-summer-gathering-2026/
LOCATION:Beth Jacob Synagogue\, 10 Harrison Ave\, Montpelier\, VT\, 05602\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adult Learning,Community Events
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SUMMARY:Vermont Jewish Poets - Summer Gathering
DESCRIPTION:Vermont Jewish Poets – Summer Gathering\nOpen to Vermont poets who self-identify as Jewish\nA day to read our poems\, to write and to deepen connection \nJuly 27\, 2025\n10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.\nBeth Jacob Synagogue\n10 Harrison Ave.\, Montpelier\, VT 05602 \nBeth Jacob Synagogue is wheelchair accessible\, microphones will be used \nMore information: Email Judy \n  \nPLEASE REGISTER \n\nWhat to expect:\nRound-robin reading in which each person will read one poem to the group \nSpecial reading by Featured Poet Jane Shore \n \nJane Shore’s six books of poems have garnered many prizes—including the Juniper Prize (1977)\, the Lamont Prize (1986) and the 2010 Poets Prize. She’s \nbeen a Guggenheim Fellow\, a Radcliffe Institute Fellow\, and a Hodder Fellow at Princeton. Widely anthologized\, her poems appeared in The New Yorker\, The New Republic and The Yale Review. That Said: New and Selected Poems\, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2012. A Professor Emerita at the George Washington University\, she lives in East Calais\, VT. \nGenerative workshop by Jane Shore: Good Poets Steal \nT.S. Eliot wrote\, “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take\, and good poets make it into something better\, or at least different.”\nIn this workshop we’ll explore a process of deep learning from poems that we love\, basing our own drafts on works we admire. I will share a poem of mine I consider almost done and the original it is based on\, with revisions I made over time until it became my own. But how much is mine\, how much remains of the original—and at what point does it cross over enough to become a real poem\, a poem that sounds like me; an echo\, not just a copy? As the mud is still wet\, I’ll invite your suggestions for further changes. I find making these hybrid/homages to be an exciting way to stretch my poetic muscle in terms of subject matter\, vision\, language and tone\, and to open up new vistas when I am stuck on what to write. I’ll provide a list of favorite “Imitations” by others. \nPlease bring a poem you love\, are intrigued by\, wish that you had written yourself. It can be a poem by another poet written in English or a translation. Bring these to work with during our session\, plus anything that also may inform the poem—the backstory\, wiki\, etc. Bring your computer or paper and pen\, whatever your normal process is. By session’s end\, you may well be on your way to have a workable draft to take home. \nI find this quote by Robert Lowell from the introduction of his book\, Imitations\, to be helpful in this process: “Boris Pasternak has said that the usual reliable translator gets the literal meaning but misses the tone\, and that in poetry tone is of course everything. I have been reckless with literal meaning\, and labored hard to get the tone. Most often this has been a tone\, for the tone is something that will always more or less escape transference to another language and cultural moment…I believe that poetic translation—I would call it an imitation—must be expert and inspired\, and needs at least as much technique\, luck and rightness of hand as the original poem.…I have been almost as free as the authors themselves in finding ways to make them ring right for me.” Though Lowell writes of translation\, we can use his approach to make our own ”imitations” ring true for us. \nBook swap\, your own or books you’d like to trade \nTime to schmooze and move around \nBYO brown bag lunch\, fruit and water supplied
URL:https://ohavizedek.org/event/vermont-jewish-poets-summer-gathering/
LOCATION:Beth Jacob Synagogue\, 10 Harrison Ave\, Montpelier\, VT\, 05602\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adult Learning,Community Events
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