Interactive Poetry Workshop

Poetry Workshop:

Exploring Metaphors for Estrangement

This 90-minute poetry workshop will offer estranged adults  — defined by Together Estranged as “people who have reduced or cut contact with a family member(s) including (but not limited to) a parent and/or sibling” — a safe space in which to explore estrangement through the poetic lens of metaphor. Metaphor is a figure of speech in which one thing, idea or action is referred to using a word or expression that’s normally tied to a different thing, idea or action, in order to suggest some common quality shared by the two, e.g. Romeo in Romeo and Juliet saying, ‘Juliet is the sun’.  It is a transformative device (‘metaphor’ and ‘metamorphosis’ are closely related), one that allows us to give voice to our own unique perspective on the world, and also to challenge or replace the existing metaphors that fill our ordinary language and shape…