Larry Sorkin leads this two-session online workshop:
Charlotte Writers' Club – A Century Of Shared Passion:
Coming To Know The Not-Known In Dialogue With The Page
To mark our golden anniversary, Sorkin is offering this workshop to CWC members free of charge, $50 for non members.
CWC North is coordinating the sessions and CWC is handling registration which includes a waiting list. If you find out you are unable to participate please contact us so that we can fill the seat.
Please register to receive the Zoom link.The presenter will provide the link prior to the beginning of this event and says "participants should know that they will be recorded including their participation."
What extraordinary enthusiasm has sustained Charlotte Writers' Club and its members for generations? Clearly, writing is not solely solitary—there’s been a collective exploration at work. This workshop, A Century Of Shared Passion: Coming To Know The Not-Known In Dialogue With The Page will provide a deep dive into our drives and motivations, community and personal.
While each of us may see our passion for writing differently, in the first session, we'll start with one approach to this question primarily through the lens of poetry. Larry will outline the way he comes to the page with an active imagination approach to deepen themes, explore the unknown, surprises, and discoveries. We’ll also have an emphasis on specific techniques of the craft including titles, turns, and line breaks, as well as the hard to define “something” that compels us to look under the veil.
The second session will be for the participants to provide a short work of their own that exemplifies what compels their writing so we can compare approaches and learn from each other’s process.
Bio:
Larry Sorkin is a some-of-the-time North Carolina poet, a part-time businessman and an occasional performer of poetry with the classical music group, The Bechtler Ensemble. He presents workshops exploring the connections between poetry and fine arts, dance, music, and depth psychology. He is a poet-in-residence at the Airy Knoll Arts Project. His poetry collection Uncomfortable Minds came out in 2021.
Poetry didn’t come to Sorkin until his forties when he fell under the infectious influence of Robert Bly. He considers it a calling to spread the passion. He often holes up on his ridgetop overlooking the Piedmont, daydreaming into the fields and onto paper.
