On using poetry & tarot to give form to the swirling miasma of individual & collective chaos in each of our sweet little heads right now ✨***Tarot-Poetics 101 is a six-part Milk Virtual Workshop series! You can register for individual sessions or take the whole course at a discount! To claim your discount, just register for the first five sessions and send a message to info@poetrysocietyny.org to request the access code for free registration on your sixth session. The series schedule is shown below. You can find a list of (and register for!) all these events and more at https://poetrysocietyny.eventbrite.com.***TAROT-POETICS 101 In poetry, formal structures can create music in a poem, connect us to an artistic lineage, help us uncover subconscious thoughts, and offer a sense of divine order, particularly when the themes, topics, or emotions in a poem are tumultuous or difficult to process. At the same time, form is tricky because it can feel limiting, unnatural, or even forced to write in a structure that someone else created, often centuries ago. Like poetry, Tarot can be a helpful tool for finding order in the chaos of one’s thoughts. Tarot works in this way because of the archetypes, elements, and frameworks built into the cards themselves, as well as the conventions of “reading” Tarot. In this workshop, we will look at the formal structures involved in the practices of reading Tarot and writing poems, offering tools for imagining new archetypes, asking better questions of ourselves, developing personalized spreads, translating spreads into poetry, and inventing new poetic forms that feel personal, natural, and self-inspired. For the best possible experience of this workshop, participants should bring their own tarot deck, a notebook, and something to write with! SERIES SCHEDULEWed, Sept 15th: The Fool Wanders In & Makes a Pretty MessWed, Sept 22nd: Why Are The Swords So Sad?!Wed, Sept 29th: A Wand Gallups Up Like a Horse on FireWed, Nov 3th: Cups Glistening Like Glamorous FishWed, Nov 10th: Sometimes Money Grows on TreesWed, Nov 17th: A Poem is a Little RevolutionABOUT THE INSTRUCTORSEowyn Evans is the Art Elemental that secretly powers www.HolyCrowArt.com, a multifaceted generator of Art, Design, and Evidence of Magic. Holy Crow is also an experienced and acclaimed palm and tarot reader working with public, private, and corporate clients across the US. They are currently the Mystic in Residence for The Poetry Brothel, serving as both The Madame and Tennessee Pink's personal witch-guru. Stephanie Berger is a poet, theater-maker, and community organizer with an entrepreneurial spirit. She is the founder & CEO of The Poetry Society of New York, co-founder & The Madame of The Poetry Brothel, and an award-winning poet whose work Ilya Kaminsky describes as "elegant, beautiful, lyrical—offering verbal music that consoles, gives us a second chance, a wish to live."