Tuesday, November 28th, 2023, 6 - 8:15pm ET
"Turn the blood that clots your tongue into poems. poems.” — Lucille Clifton
In a Western culture that values facts and figures over eros and the invisible (all that which cannot be quantified such as emotion, ecstasy, and pain) culturally we have lost an embodied language, a poetic tongue, to communicate the actual substance and life-force of our lives. This is why many women are often silent when pressed to speak, because within a masculine, rational language there are no words to communicate the wordless, ineffable feelings that swell within us.
We have to create those words — we have to learn how to pull the invisible into our language, to write in metaphor and images that are big enough to hold our joy, our suffering, and our yearning. This itself is a practice of “becoming”, of helping us to more fully inhabit the marrow of our everyday lives. And since words create worlds, writing in an erotic tongue is also a way of writing the feminine into being, of feeding a current of soul in a dried up, soul-thirsty world.
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In this 2-hour writing salon, we will be inspired by the embodied poetry of female writers (such as Lucille Clifton, Audre Lorde, Denise Levertov, and Diane di Prima) to practice writing that is rooted in the raw and real of our everyday lives.
Gateless Writing is a writing method inspired by Zen Buddhism and creative brain science that helps you to write beneath the conditioned, critical mind. Through a combination of guided meditation, writing prompts, and nourishing only-positive feedback you are supported to relax into your body, trust your voice, and liberate your creative potential. No previous writing experience necessary.
(Please note, these salons will not include formal writing education, only experiential-learning through hearing and being inspired by the embodied poetry of female writers).
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Brielle Elise Martinez, M.A. is a scholar of myth, writer, and certified Gateless Writing teacher. Through storytelling journeys, writing salons, and courses, she seeks to return woman to her body, her tongue, and her old ways of knowing.