Title

Everyday footprints: a bilingual poetry reading and discussion

Authors

Roy Ketchum, College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's UniversityFollow

Document Type

Presentation

Publication Date

10-30-2014

Disciplines

Latin American Literature | Poetry

Abstract

During the long winter of 2014, I led a Spanish language poetry writing workshop for students. With a selection of readings from Latin American poets as our source material and inspiration, we devoted ourselves to cultivating a writing practice and to generating poems of our own. We discovered along the way that poetry has the capacity to surprise us-if we let it. Poetry might think of itself as nothing more than words on the page, but we know better. This presentation consists of a Spanish/English poetry reading and discussion on poetry's capacity to surprise us with what resides in everyday footprints.

Recommended Citation

Ketchum, Roy, "Everyday footprints: a bilingual poetry reading and discussion" (2014). Forum Lectures. 112.
https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/forum_lectures/112