Workshop
Food for Thought: Food for Poems **Please note all times are listed in EST**
“I have eaten the plums,” writes William Carlos Williams, and we can imagine him licking his lips-- “they were delicious . . .” Through a guided exercise we’ll turn our immediate thoughts to the pleasure of food as we write and read. Try to read the W. C. Williams poem “This Is Just to Say” before we meet.
Myra Shapiro, born in the Bronx, returned to New York City after forty-five years in Georgia and Tennessee where she raised two daughters and worked as a teacher and librarian. Her books of poetry are I'll See You Thursday and 12 Floors Above the Earth, her memoir, Four Sublets: Becoming a Poet in New York, and When the World Walks Toward You. Her poems have appeared in many periodicals and anthologies, most recently The New Yorker, and twice, in Best American Poetry. She serves on the Board of Directors of Poets House and teaches poetry workshops for the International Women’s Writing Guild.