DALE’S COURSES AT OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING
INSTITUTE (OLLI) AT DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY
WORDS THAT GET YOU THROUGH…
Poetry that sustains your life’s great journey
A well-lived life contains good times and bad. Times of unbounded joy and times that are fierce and challenging. Poetry has the unique ability to lift and sustain us during all the many seasons and happenings of our lives. We also touch on the often-surprising lives of our featured poets. While not a writing class, all are invited to journal or write between classes as desired. Come for a unique experience of poetry. Come engage in spirited conversation. Come gather your own unique collection of bold, beautiful words that will get you through.
STOP THE WORLD… I WANT TO GET ON!
The poetry of change and life’s great transitions
At times our lives move so fast that we barely see the blur as it goes by. At those moments we may simply need to stop. To breathe and center. To let our soul catch up with our body. Great poems can help. And not some kind of vague, ethereal help. But hard-headed, practical assistance. Help that gets right down there in the mud and bramble of life. The kind of support that shines brightly upon the world, helping us both see the path and create it at the same time.
THOSE WILD WOMEN POETS
Celebrating the beautiful, fierce poetry of the world’s great wild woman poets, past and present
What does it mean to be a wild women poet? What can we learn from their work, lives and perseverance? Join us for a deep experience of poetry for its beauty — yes, but also for its practical, hardworking characteristics as well. Already love poetry? You’ll feel welcome. Simply curious and new to poetry? You’ll feel at home as well.
As a lover of poetry, it has been an incredible gift to be a part of Dale’s classes. He brings each poem to life, and recites in a way that demands you not only hear — but also feel — the poem until it becomes a part of you.
~ Teri Hollowell, Executive Director,
BCD Meetings & Incentives
I love poetry, have taken several OLLI poetry classes and enjoyed them all but this one was just outstandingly good! Dale is a consumate showman but in the very best way ~ in his reading of the 10 or so poems he had selected (and it was a wonderful selection!) he made them come alive so thoroughly that very little explication was needed to bring home their meaning and impact. We were allowed to have that experience for ourselves! … His teaching is a rare sort ~ in the end, I felt that I had been involved in a deep learning experience and that we (Dale, the class, and myself) had been partners in the process.~ OLLI student
How The Heart Gets In (audio CD)
The poetry of change and transition
This is a live CD recording of Dale Biron giving a lecture in the San Francisco Bay Area on the practical uses of world-class poetry in the personal change process. If you want a whole new set of powerful tools to support yourself as you make important life changes, this is the program for you. One audience member put it this way: “Your program was a knockout. I didn’t think I liked poetry. But you made it so accessible to me. The way you read it, repeating lines, lingering on emphasis, captured me, let me learn the meaning for you, let me get into the meaning for me. It was inspiring. Thanks again.”
(2-CD set, total playing time: 96 minutes)
$17 How the Heart Gets In — CD
Poetry As Soul Medicine (DVD)
Healing our souls in troubled times
There are times when the hurt we feel is at a soul level. For those difficult times in our individual and collective lives, nothing seems to heal the soul like poetry. In this powerful lecture and performance captured live on DVD, Dale Biron explores exactly what kinds of poetry we need to keep in our poetic medicine cabinets. This show received a great response from the audience and is one you’ll want to watch time and again.
As stated by Don Goewey, Executive Director of The International Center for Attitudinal Healing, “The first time I arrived at Dale’s poetry performance the dust of the day was all over me. I was tired, my mind was flat, and I was thinking that I might be too spent for a thing like this. When it was over and I walked back to my car, I was alive with vision — a new man with new eyes looking at a new world. It was like Dale had turned those poems into medicine.”
(Total Playing Time: 1 hour 4 minutes)
$19 Poetry As Soul Medicine — DVD
