Casting Spells: Songs, Prayer & Incantations with Pam Uschuk (via Zoom)
Sat, Apr 05
|Zoom


Time & Location
Apr 05, 2025, 12:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Zoom
About the event
Who doesn’t want to have the power to cast a spell? Poetry has a long history of charms all the way back to its roots in the oral tradition. From incantatory songs intoned by elders around a campfire in Sumeria or what is now New York to Shakespeare’s “Double, double, toil and trouble/fire burn and cauldron bubble” to Robert Graves’ “Invoke, People of the Sea, invoke the poet, that he may/compose a spell for you.” to Joy Harjo’s evocative “I Take You Back,” invocations, prayers, spells, charms, songs and incantations are a huge part of today’s global poetry. In this generative three hour zoom workshop, we will take an in-depth look at some ways in which poets have written these in free verse, form and prose poems. Poets include Ross Gay, Joy Harjo, Natalie ‘Diaz, Jane Hirschfield, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, Patricia Smith, Terrance Hayes, and many more. We’ll discuss ways…
Tickets
Casting Spells
$150.00+$3.75 service fee
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