Poetry: The Quill of the Soul

Dianalee Velle

Tuesdays, 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
October 11 - November 15, 2005
D.O.C. House

Come get in touch with the passion and the power of poetry. In this course we will try to bring our minds down into our souls. By turning back to our core, exploring our interiors through poems, we will articulate truths we may not have realized before. Come fall in love with poetry by learning to read poems and write them. In this course we will explore the imagery and symbolism of poetry and how certain words and images interact with each other.  Through poetry we will create new experiences with language by exploring formal challenges in free verse poetry.

Class is limited to 10 members.

Dianalee Velie is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, and has a Master of Arts in Writing from Manhattanville College, where she has served as faculty advisor of Inkwell: A Literary Magazine. She has taught poetry, memoir, and short story at universities and colleges in New York, Connecticut and New Hampshire and in private workshops throughout the Northeast. Her award-winning poetry and short stories have been published in hundreds of literary journals throughout the USA and Canada. She enjoys traveling to rural school systems in Vermont and New Hampshire teaching poetry for the Children’s Literacy Foundation. Dianalee was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize and her play, "Mama Says," was directed by Daniel Quinn in a staged reading in New York City. Dianalee is formerly from Darien, Connecticut and now resides in Newbury, New Hampshire with her three cats, Midnight, Magic and Merlin. She is the author of two books of poetry, Glass House and First Edition, published by Rock Village Publishing, Middleborough, Massachusetts.