SPROUTS: Articles, Appearances and Testimonials
FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR LAURA HOPE-GILL OFFERS WORKSHOPS AND CLASSES THAT GENTLY RELEASE LISTENERS FROM THE GRASP OF LINEAR THINKING AND DELIVER THEM TO THE FLUIDITY AND OPENNESS OF THE GEOPOETIC LIFE.
ARTICLES:
Asheville Gears Up for Wordfest
In 2011, while researching her second book, Look Up Asheville, Laura discovered that the final works of early 19th century stained glass artist Mary Tillinghast lives on in Asheville's Trinity Episcopal Church. Enjoy this article about Laura's Research into Mary Tillinghast's life and final stained-glass windows.
Great Smokies Writing Program at UNC-Asheville: Poetry and Memoir courses since 2008
MAHEC at Kanuga, May 2010
DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY CONFERENCE, Amelia Island, Florida, September 30-October 2, 2011
The Opus Workshop at Asheville Wordfest, 2010
Pathways to Publishing: a course in the publishing universe at Grateful Steps, 2012
Social Media for Writers at Grateful Steps Publishing House, 2011-2012
The Romantic Poets at Grateful Steps Publishing House, 2011
Rise Up: Humanities Conference hosted by Lenoir Rhyne University, May 12, 2012
David Wilcox Song-Wriitng Weekend May, 2012
Testimonails from students:
Laura Hope-Gill teaches workshops and classes on everything from social networking to poetry to alchemy. Her fifteen years of teaching experience in various environments (prisons as well as boarding schools for the privileged) have shaped her into a master educator and speaker on a number of topics. Her students say:
"I just completed a 10-week class with Laura Hope-Gill and found it extremely enlightening. Laura brought enthusiasm and respect to each of us and to our poems and offered gentle criticism --- often in the guise of personal anecdote, a reading of one of her own wonderful poems, or insights from one of the (other) masters. I think that each of us left the class much better poets than when we began." Carolyn Davis
"Laura's classes are always alive with ideas, laughter and interesting critiques of her student's work. She has a well of knowledge of both contemporary and traditional poetry and this adds depth to her teaching and gives her students models to consider as they develop their own work. She is a teacher actively engaged in her own writing and this brings authenticity to her commentary." Marian Plaut
"Laura Hope-Gill likes to search beneath the surface of things, of events, to locate those unexpected reflections. In a clear confident diction, she walks us through the intimate lyric landscape to the edge of imagination and pushes off. In work-shopping other poets work, she has a knack of quickly ferreting out the structural weaknesses of a poem and making reformative suggestions that honor the voice and intent of the poet, of allowing the thrown up words to resettle into an alternate and often more compelling piece of music." Randal Pride
"I have taught in an MFA program for many years, observed many teachers, and Laura is one of the most gifted instructors of writing I have seen. Those gifts extend to her own poetry which is provocative and fresh. We are all eagerly awaiting her first collection this spring." Katherine Soniat
"Laura is a wonderful poet who writes and thinks seriously as well as whimsically. She has the ability to see how to tinker with someone's poem and bring it out bright and shiny, but leaving the original thoughts and language in tact. She is a master architect who loves playing with words. We had way too much fun for a poetry class." Alice Johnson
CONSULTING: $50.00-75.00/ hour
READINGS AND TALKS: $500.00
ALL-DAY WORKSHOPS FOR GROUPS: $1200.00
For Booking information and Appointments: contact laura@thehealingseed.com.
