688146 event 1770664963 1770665669 <![CDATA[WST Learning Community dinner with Komal Mathew, GT STAC alumna]]> Komal Mathew, GT STAC alumna, writing teacher, and poet will meet with WST Lrn C residents and other students over dinner and will conduct a poetry workshop. Any Georgia Tech student is welcome to join, although anyone not living the WST Lrn C should send an RSVP to carol.colatrella@lmc.gatech.edu 

Here is Ms. Mathew's description of the workshop:

Poetry Workshop: Discovering Poems from the Outside In
Did you know writing poems can be as fun as playing a game? In this workshop, I’ll introduce you to three strategies of forming and creating poems: found, erasure, and blackout poetry. We’ll review some examples to discuss the liberties and limitations of these forms—and then we’ll start playing! My hope is that the poet in you leaves the workshop with a poem to share with the world.

Komal Mathew is a graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology and Sarah Lawrence College. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Diode Poetry Journal, Beloit Poetry Journal, Crazyhorse, Narrative, The New Republic, and others. Her debut collection of poems, For Daughters Who Walk Out Like Sons, won the Zone 3 Press First Book Award for Poetry. She lives with her family in Smyrna, Georgia, where she is working on a middle-grade novel in verse. https://www.komalmathew.com/

To read a poem by her, see https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/151742/for-the-shepherd-who-is-also-the-path-the-sun-makes-in-daytime
 

]]>  Komal Mathew, GT STAC alumna, writing teacher, and poet will meet with WST Lrn C residents and other students over dinner and will conduct a poetry workshop. Her description follows:

Poetry Workshop: Discovering Poems from the Outside In
Did you know writing poems can be as fun as playing a game? In this workshop, I’ll introduce you to three strategies of forming and creating poems: found, erasure, and blackout poetry. We’ll review some examples to discuss the liberties and limitations of these forms—and then we’ll start playing! My hope is that the poet in you leaves the workshop with a poem to share with the world.

 
]]> Carol Colatrella
carol.colatrella@lmc.gatech.edu

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For the Shepherd Who Is Also the Path the Sun Makes in Daytime

A good shepherd is a wonder in contrapposto, an artist
 
mapping the Serengeti with kingdom lines.
 
 
A good shepherd angles a lion’s eye, traps gazelles
 
in dry fields, copies a cheetah’s spots one leg at a time.
 
 
A good shepherd does not give you stones
 
when you ask for toast, does not ask you to work
 
 
without a burning bush—but owns a gate, uses a gate, pulls
 
the weeds and leaves the wheat on an altar of choices.
 
 
A good shepherd is a prince of peace when terror finds its full echo,
 
a creator in the wild where a predator, providentially, becomes prey.
 
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/komal-mathew
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