'I Say the Sky' Interactive Reading and Workshop
Friday, February 2 – 7pm
Adler Center Ballroom
FREE
In this interactive reading/workshop, writer and beloved writing teacher Nadia Colburn, Ph.D., will explore the way poetry engages us through the senses to create an immersive, integrative experience.
To honor the Adler Arts Center and its commitment to supporting music and the visual arts, Nadia will read from her new book I Say the Sky and discuss the nature of music, sound and image in poetry: how does poetry call a world into being? And how can it engage us in a healing, transformative experience?
Nadia will share her own journey through poetry: the ways in which poetry speaks from silences and into levels of healing–both personal and social. She will also offer short meditations and guide us to listen deeply, take in the world around and within us, and write our own poems.
Nadia will be joined by talented Music Therapist Soozie Cotter-Schaufele, who will play the harp. Nadia will also use the artwork in the center as a jumping off point for visual prompts.
Join us for an unforgettable afternoon/evening of poetry, meditation, music, writing, and more. Sign up for the event using the ‘sign up’ buttons below!
Nadia Colburn is the author of the poetry books I Say the Sky and The High Shelf, and her poetry and prose have appeared in more than eighty publications, including The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Spirituality & Health, Lion’s Roar, and the The Yale Review. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University and is the founder of Align Your Story Writing School, which brings traditional literary and creative writing studies together with mindfulness, embodied practices, and social and environmental engagement. She’s interested in how the personal meets the social, and how the inner and the outer inform each other. Find her at nadiacolburn.com, where she offers meditations and free resources for humans engaged in all forms of writing and artmaking.
In poems at once profound and accessible, Nadia Colburn finds splendor and astonishment in a natural world—and a human world—that is deeply troubled yet still majestically beautiful. Both elegy and celebration, I Say the Sky addresses some of the most challenging aspects of human existence, from childhood trauma to environmental devastation, and discovers, in unexpected and clear-sighted ways, wisdom, wonder, and peace.
Colburn’s brilliant second book charts a journey to meet the self. From girlhood to parenthood, loss to discovery, in poems that sing, the book explores how meaning is made. Claiming the female voice from silence, the poems find their grounding in the body and achieve rootedness and hope.
I Say the Sky is a meditative and ultimately inspiring book that will be savored by seasoned readers as well as those new to poetry.
BOOK SALE:
Copies of ‘I Say the Sky’ will be available for purchase at the event. Special thanks to Barbara’s Bookstore!