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FREEING THE ANGEL (POETRY) with Kim Addonizio

La Romita School of Art Terni, Italy

Come to La Romita and be inspired—by the landscape, the food, the history, and the poets who have come before, including Montale, Catullus, Petrarch, Gregory Corso, John Keats, Jorie Graham, and so many others. This is an opportunity for poets at all levels to write and share work in an intimate setting as we experience the delights only Italy can provide.  We’ll read all sorts of poems, do writing prompts, and talk about both craft and process. We’ll study some of the strategies of great poets and explore how to use them in our own work.

$3500.00

CATCHING FIRE – WRITING EN PLEIN AIR with Richard Osler

La Romita School of Art Terni, Italy

The retreat will combine aspects of poetic craft with poetry’s ability to open you to surprising moments of discovery with ourselves and the world around you.

The structured writing sessions, many in situ, or as artists say en plein air, at places we visit will be inspired by handouts based on meditations on craft, specific creative prompts and the poems of master poets

This approach will help you write unexpected poems that
stretch you as a person and as a writer. And you will discover the truth of these words by Canadian poet Susan Musgrave: “It seems to me my poems know more than I do and are wiser than I am.”

$2500

LA ROMITA UNINSTRUCTED

La Romita School of Art Terni, Italy

GET OUT AND PAINT!
(or sketch, or write, or whatever feeds your soul!)

La Romita is pleased to offer an uninstructed workshop, for artists of any stripe who wish to enjoy the best we have to offer but who aren’t interested in specific instruction.

For 7 days you’ll have freedom to follow your own process, with daily opportunities to go offsite. Head out to Spoleto, San Gemini, Orvieto –  or wherever our bus is going that day.

$2000

TO BE FISHED BY A POEM – WRITING EN PLEIN AIR with Richard Osler

La Romita School of Art Terni, Italy

To be fished by a poem. What a thought! But the longer I write poetry the more the words of Jack Gilbert ring true for me. Poetry fishes us to find a world…Come to Italy and be fished. Or to put it another way in the words of Canadian poet Susan Musgrave, come and discover […]

$2650

Poet as Diviner: Hunting the Pluck of Poetry

Online Workshop

In this 6-part zoom session you will be invited to find the hidden within you and transform it into life-giving poems. On our final session we will be guided by the celebrated book- artist Terry Ann Carter in making a permanent memento of some of our best lines of poetry and later we’ll celebrate with […]

$160

POET AS DIVINER: HUNTING THE PLUCK OF POETRY – with Richard Osler

La Romita School of Art Terni, Italy

Irish poet Seamus Heaney talks of the diviner, “hunting the pluck/ of water” to make contact with what lies hidden. Poet and retreat leader Richard Osler wants to hunt the pluck of poetry and, like Heaney’s diviner, make palpable what was sensed or raised. Through writing sessions inspired by written meditations on craft, the poems […]

$3200

FREEING THE ANGEL – with Kim Addonizio

La Romita School of Art Terni, Italy

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. Michelangelo Join acclaimed poet Kim Addonizio in Italy for a workshop inspired by the landscape, the food, the history, and the poets who have come before - Montale, Catullus, Petrarch, Gregory Corso, John Keats, Jorie Graham, and so many others. This […]

$3300

QUESTIONS OF TRAVEL: A POETRY ADVENTURE – with Kim Addonizio and Flower Conroy

La Romita School of Art Terni, Italy

Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Elizabeth BishopThe answer, of course, is an emphatic, No! Carpe diem—seize the day—as the Roman poet Horace declared. Come to La Romita and join poets Kim Addonizio and Flower Conroy for a workshop inspired by the landscape, the food, the history, and the poets who […]

$3200

THE ART OF DISCOVERY- SELF-EXPRESSION AT THE CROSSROADS OF POETRY AND ART – with Melissa Grace Young and Emily Ransdell

La Romita School of Art Terni, Italy

Taste the richness of Umbria while opening to the spirit of creative self-expression. Envision a travel and journaling experience where poetry and art merge with ample opportunities for hands-on exploration and experimentation. Imagine La Romita as your home base, on the site of our monastery, and your studio in a church built in the 1500s […]

$3800

As La Romita School caters to multiple levels of instruction and various forms of the arts, prices will vary by session, season, instructor, and offerings.

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