CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (CLARKSVILLENOW) – Regional writers will be given the opportunity to participate in a workshop with noted poet Stellasue Lee on Saturday, January 28. Dr. Lee will be leading a class entitled “Saying the Unsayable”.
“Journal Writing/ transformation line is the key to a door of the subconscious. It is how one discovers what they are thinking/feeling. Explaining the unexplainable is something of a magic act; showing up to a blank page with an unfettered mind takes some doing. In this process, things happen that are always a surprise. This kind of writing is about reaching into the mid-section and exposing what lies within. It is one of the oldest methods of self-exploration and expression. It leads people to understand their inner core and how life works. It empowers them to change the course of their thinking. Once it’s down on paper, it lives,” states Dr. Lee.
Participants are asked to bring a notebook, and pen as well as their lunch. Guests need to R.S.V.P. by Thursday, Jan. 26. The class will run from 10am to 4pm. Fees for the workshop are $25.00 for museum members and $30 for general admission.
Stellasue Lee’s work is published in numerous literary journals. Two of her books have been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, Firecracker Red, a powerful collection of poems set squarely in the earth, and Crossing the Double Yellow Line, a journey of sharp turns and hair-pin curves. Her work has appeared in three more volumes, After I Fall, a collection of four Los Angeles poets, Over to You, an exchange of poems with David Widup, and 13 Los Angeles Poets, the ONTHEBUS Poets Series Number One. (Bombshelter Press.) Dr. Lee received her Ph.D. from Honolulu University. Now Editor Emeritus at RATTLE, a literary journal, she teaches privately, and at writers’ workshops.
The Customs House Museum workshop is presented in conjunction with the video installation “Her Honeybunch Sweetie Pie is Gone”, which can be viewed in the Kimbrough Gallery through March 12. Located at the corner of Second and Commerce Streets, the Customs House Museum is the second largest general museum in Tennessee. For more information on above event contact Terri Jordan, Exhibits Curator, at 931-648-5780 or terri@customshousemuseum.org.