Promptings: A Two-Day Poetry Workshop
With Baron Wormser in Cold Hollow Sculpture Park
September 28-29 | 10am-4pm
One dimension of artistic creation is the conversation artists have with the works in agiven genre. These works prompt artists to imagine what their work might be. Onework incites another work. Over two days, we will discuss eight poems (four byvarious hands, four of mine) that display diverse aspects of poetry—its occasions,forms, and tones. These poems will be used by participants as prompts to create theirown poems—to enter the conversation. The poems will be handed out one by one overthe course of the two days. This is an experiential event—nothing to plan ahead for.Participants will be free (weather permitting) to use the grounds of Cold HollowSculpture Park when they write their own poems and draw additional sustenanceaccordingly.
Tickets: $195 for 2-day workshop. Limited to 10 participants. For those thatcannot attend both days, accomodations may be made. Please contact Baron(see below) for more information.
To register, please contact Baron Wormser at baronwormser@gmail.com.
With Baron Wormser in Cold Hollow Sculpture Park
ABOUT BARON WORMSER
Baron Wormser is the author of twenty books including eleven books of poetry and two co-authored books about teaching poetry. He has taught hundreds of workshops over the course of his teaching career.
Learn more about Baron’s work by visiting his website at baronwormser.com
Life up North: Experience Enosburg & Cold Hollow Sculpture Park
Some notes on context for attendees: P.S. Bring your Passport (see below).
The Park’s 70+ sculptures live on 200 acres of land that began as a dairy farm in the mid- 1800’s, and still is, when our neighbor sweeps through the meadows with tractors and tedders, balers, and wagons, cutting and collecting hay for their dairy cows. It is a place rooted in the practical world of farming yet devoted to a product of imagination. Tension between the freedom of open meadows that face the cradling bowl of the Cold Hollow Mountains, provides an experience at once stimulating and nurturing, as with the contrast of contemporary art, multidiscipline programs, and a poetry workshop amid old, agricultural rituals. Our remoteness creates a quest, to journey to unfamiliar territory in order to discover something you wouldn’t have thought you’d find there. A story as old as it is irresistible.
The Village of Enosburg Falls, VT: A dairy farming community six miles from the Park where you’ll find the closest amenities,** real Vermonters, and maple creamees with real maple syrup, probably made by someone you’ll pass on the street. Note: The Flying Disc coffee and Garcia’s Bistro close on Sunday. Flowers to Flour Bakery is open Friday – Sunday with breakfast items. All are located on Main Street in Enosburg.
Please click HERE for a list of local amenities including places to eat and stay, in and near, the village of Enosburg Falls, Vermont. The Jay Peak Resort and Stowe, VT are within 45 minutes of the Park.
Canada: The Canadian border is about 25 minutes from the Park. Another 25 minutes and you’re in Sutton, Quebec, a sophisticated, French-speaking village with restaurants, places to stay, shops, art galleries, and, of course, a Chocolaterie. Montreal is about 1.5 hrs from the Sculpture Park.
Questions about the Park? Contact Director, Chloe Vogt: cvogt@coldhollowsculpturepark.com
