n this generative poetry workshop, we will engage various prompts, experiments, poems, and meditative technologies as guides for tuning our instruments of perception to the cosmic mind—that is to say, to the spirit and intelligence of the Poem itself. We will call on who Joy Harjo calls our ‘poetry ancestors.’ This will not be a traditional workshop, there will be no critiques, rather we will explore methods of generating work through both passive (being ‘inspired’) and active modes of writing. We will write together individually and collaboratively in a safe and supportive atmosphere. Through deep attention, we will search for the pulse of the earth’s heartbeat, to enliven our own hearts and enlarge our ‘vision,’ and to employ this in the service of making poems.