Getting the Land Right: Evoking Place in Non-Fiction, Fiction, and Poetry with Jerry Dennis

What do we mean by the “sense” of a place? Is it quantifiable? A feeling? An abstraction? Which of our senses—touch, sight, smell, taste, hearing—can best detect the “flavor” of a place? And how can we capture that flavor in words? We’ll explore these and other questions and discuss works of literature in which exterior and interior landscapes are more than just background. (Feel free to bring favorite excerpts to share with the group.) And we’ll take time to write about places important in our own lives—places that might generate new stories, essays, memoirs, and poems.

This workshop will focus on generating new writing, so there’s no need to bring any of your current work.

**Please enter the Whiting Forest parking lot and go straight through the gates to the Whiting House for the workshop.**