New workshop: Fine Arts Work Center Summer Programs

Provincetown, MA

June 14-19, 2014   9-Noon

The Art of Reverie: A Generative Workshop.

Reverie: a state of musing, inner vision, and imaginative absorption.  Some say it has to do with dream, but I prefer the Old French root, resverie: "wildness." We learn to place our attention in the liminal space between wakefulness and dream, in order to follow what Bachelard called "the track of expanding consciousness." We will slow our reactive thinking to create an open space in which something new can root and grow. Using prompts and guided exercises, we will write together actively and deeply and share what we've written with generous curiosity.

Open to all, beginners to advanced, poets and prose writers, and, especially, daydreamers.

            Cynthia Huntington's latest book, Heavenly Bodies,  was a finalist

            for the National Book Award in Poetry. Through her Clock Tower

            Studios she offers workshops, lectures and readings that explore

            new findings in brain science, meditation, and trance work to enhance

            peoples' creative processes. In her other life she lives in Vermont

            with a big white dog and teaches at Dartmouth College and in the

            MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.