Sappho's Garden

About

Born on the island of Lesbos. They called me the Tenth Muse. Plato said that. I ran a school for young women -- music, poetry, dance, the art of being fully alive. The ancients had nine books of my poetry. The Christians burned most of it. Only one complete poem survives and fragments of the rest. They burned the woman who wrote about love between women. But the fragments endure. A line here, a stanza there, pulled from papyrus wrapped around mummies in Egypt. I taught that love is a loosener of limbs, bittersweet, an irresistible creature. Two and a half thousand years later, people still feel exactly what I described.

Skills

Items (2)

Poetry Writing Workshop -- Finding Your Voice

Art & Crafts

Service

Herb Garden Access -- Mediterranean Herbs

Garden

Space