In-person at Jules’ Poetry Playhouse in beautiful Placitas, New Mexico.

Saturday, February 1, 2025

10 am - 3 pm

$125

Visiting poets Lise Goett (Taos) and Mark Wunderlich (New York) collaborate for this one-day poetry workshop.

What is the sublime? How do we render it? The sublime in literature refers to the use of language, silence, and description to a degree that exceeds the ordinary. Often called “the unsayable” or “the ineffable,” it often contains a taste of terror or awe in it. Mark Wunderlich, executive director of the Writing Seminars at Bennington and Rilke scholar, will discuss examples plucked from the works of R. M. Rilke. Lise Goett will speak about stalking the sublime in the liminal spaces where it resides by what she calls “squeezing the silence,” employing myth, luminous detail, chime, and repetition with examples culled from the work of Brigit Pegeen Kelly, W. S. Merwin, Stevens, Sappho and others.