Dear Poets,
    I'm in Athens and on my way.  I will see you this afternoon and at tonight's welcoming dinner.  Thank you, Joanna for posting an introduction!
    Here is something you might enjoy, as a little teaser.  It is Michael Ondaatje's "writing method," as he described it in Aix-en-Provence when we were there together a few years ago:

It begins with an image and then a question, perhaps another image, another question, and then a place comes into focus, and a situation. 

                                                            —Michael Ondaatje

 Carolyn