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Are you enchanted by the imagery of tarot but uncertain how to approach it? Or are you a regular practitioner looking to refresh your practice? Either way, this class has something for you. We’ll begin by reviewing the basics of tarot, using the Rider-Waite deck as our foundation, though we’ll look at other decks as well. Building from that foundation, we’ll explore ways to use the cards for creativity and practice with a generative exercise. We’ll also discuss how the cards can be used to access greater clarity in other aspects of life and journal together. Following the class, you can stick around for an optional card pull by Amie. If you have a tarot deck, feel free to bring it, but it's not required—your personal magic is all you need to bring!
• In-Class Writing Lift: Light
• Homework: None
• Workshopping Drafts: None
Amie Whittemore (she/her) is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Nest of Matches (Autumn House Press). Her chapbook, Hesitation Waltz, is forthcoming from the Midwest Writing Center. She was the 2020-2021 Poet Laureate of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. Her poems have won multiple awards, including a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, and her writing has appeared in Blackbird, Colorado Review, Terrain.org, Pleiades, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing at Eastern Illinois University.
"Amie sent materials enough ahead for us to be familiar with concepts and example poems before we discussed them. In the three hour workshop, we looked at six approaches to personal and persona poems and how these approaches might be used in our own work. Time for discussion, for personal drafts, for breakout sharing with one other class member, and then a return for group summation was applied as much as possible for each of the six approaches. When a class member wanted longer discussion, Amie adjusted the remaining time appropriately so that we left knowing how to approach all six techniques. She's a masterful teacher as well as a fine poet!"
"Amie is a fantastic teacher; she was warm and encouraging and provided excellent examples of poems that we talked through as a class before attempting writing prompts. I would definitely take a class from her again in the future!"
"Amie is an engaging and lively presence on screen. A natural teacher."
