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Daytime Poetry Workshop
Instructor: Douglas Nordfors Cost: $150.00 Members | $165.00 Non-Members 6 Tuesdays, May 31 -July 05, 2016 | 1:00 PM-3:30 PM Limited to 11 students. This class will be a “user-friendly” workshop for beginning or experienced poets. Through the examples of their own work, participants will discuss two classic approaches: poems in which style, content, and form (free verse or otherwise) "click into place," and poems that work upon the reader in a more mysterious way. The class will be free…
Find out more »Advanced Poetry Workshop
Instructor: John Most Cost: $150.00 Members | $165.00 Non-Members 6 Tuesdays, May 31 -July 05, 2016 | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM Limited to 11 students. Each week we will bring in poems to discuss. In our discussions, we will focus on construction and revision practices in relation to the broader vision and poetic approaches of the individual poets in the group. There will be optional writing suggestions each week. Each poet will receive written and verbal feedback from the instructor. Previous…
Find out more »Solitude and Poetry
Instructor: Nathaniel Perry Cost: $60.00 Members | $65.00 Non-Members 1 Saturdays, June 18, 2016 | 10:00 AM-2:00 PM Limited to 11 students. In this seminar, we will contemplate the ways we are alone with and in poems. What do we mean when we want 'space' or 'time' to write? To make good art, should we be in touch more with ourselves or with others? How can our poems replicate those places of rich solitude? To parse out some of these…
Find out more »Sea Lanes Out: Traveling the Path of Poetry
Sea Lanes Out: Traveling the Path of Poetry Instructor: Jasmine Bailey Cost: $139 Members | $147 Non-members August 01 -August 05, 2016 | 10:00 AM-12:30 PM In this week-long intensive session designed to deepen and broaden the skills of practicing writers, we will read and discuss poetry by masters well-known and new to you, play with writing prompts, engage in the world outside of the studio, and read and workshop one another’s poems. Major themes we will discuss are political…
Find out more »Finding Your Voice
Where I am From: Finding Your Voice Through Poetry Instructor: Ebony Walden Cost: $60 Members | $65 Non-members Sunday, October 23, 2016 | 1:00 PM-5:00 PM Are you ready to give voice to your unique experience with creativity, confidence and dynamism? Poetry can help you craft your life experiences into something beautiful, so that you can share it with the world. This interactive workshop will give you a new appreciation for the power of poetry and practical ways this form…
Find out more »Advanced Poetry – Class is Full!
Instructor: John Most Cost: $189 Members | $210 Non-member Each week we will bring in poems to discuss. In our discussions, we will focus on construction and revision practices in relation to the broader vision and poetic approaches of the individual poets in the group. There will be optional writing suggestions each week. Each poet will receive written and verbal feedback from the instructor. Previous workshop experience is a requirement. John Most earned his PhD in media philosophy from the…
Find out more »Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary-CLASS IS FULL
Instructor: Sharron Singleton Cost: $189 Members | $210 Non-members 8 Wednesdays, September 21 -November 09, 2016 | 1:00 PM-3:30 PM The poet, Gregory Orr, says, "Poetry...is a huge repository of focused testimony about what it is to be human – to endure emotions and experience ... to think and feel and sense and remember and imagine, all under the pressure of an urgency that compresses language to its barest, sensuous essence." This workshop will help you transform your ordinary thoughts,…
Find out more »Poets Support Society
We are a group of poets gathering in support of each other and our creative work for community, camaraderie, and feedback on creative work. Please check the calendar for specific meeting dates. Send questions to Erika Castillo acdeere gmail com
Find out more »Letters as Poems
Instructor: Roselyn Elliott Cost: $60 Members | $65 Non-members Saturday, January 14, 2017 | 1:00 PM-5:00 PM Write a letter to your favorite character in history—or to anyone you choose—in the form of a poem. This form of poetry was written by ancient poets and continues to be popular among lovers and students of verse today. This three-and-a-half hour seminar and will offer students an opportunity to read, discuss, and write poems in which the speaker addresses a specific person in…
Find out more »Advanced Poetry – Class is Full
Instructor: John Most Cost: $189 Members | $210 Non-members 8 Tuesdays, January 10 - February 28, 2017 | 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM Each week we will bring in poems to discuss. In our discussions, we will focus on construction and revision practices in relation to the broader vision and poetic approaches of the individual poets in the group. There will be optional writing suggestions each week. Each poet will receive written and verbal feedback from the instructor. Previous workshop…
Find out more »Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary – Class is Full
Instructor: Sharron Singleton Cost: $189 Members | $210 Non-members 8 Wednesdays, January 11 - March 1, 2017 | 1:00 PM-3:30 PM The poet, Gregory Orr, says, “Poetry…is a huge repository of focused testimony about what it is to be human – to endure emotions and experience … to think and feel and sense and remember and imagine, all under the pressure of an urgency that compresses language to its barest, sensuous essence.” This workshop will help you transform your ordinary thoughts, feelings and memories into…
Find out more »Advanced Poetry
Instructor: John Most Cost: $189 Members | $210 Non-members 8 Tuesdays, March 21, 2017 - May 9, 2017 | 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM Each week we will bring in poems to discuss. In our discussions, we will focus on construction and revision practices in relation to the broader vision and poetic approaches of the individual poets in the group. There will be optional writing suggestions each week. Each poet will receive written and verbal feedback from the instructor. Previous workshop…
Find out more »Daytime Poetry: Making Magic
Instructor: Judy Longley Cost: $189 Members | $210 Non-members 8 Wednesdays, March 22, 2017 – May 10, 2017 | 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM Making poetry is the process of lifting everyday life into magical realms through symbol, figure and metaphor. This 8 week course will involve using the inspiration of other poet’s examples and the elements of craft to produce new visions of the world and perhaps your own life. Let the magic begin! Judy Longley of Charlottesville, Virginia, has published four…
Find out more »Poetry of Resistance
Instructor: Annie Kim Cost: $60 Members | $65 Non-members Sunday, April 2, 2017 | 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM A poem can be an act of defiance. Poetry lets us mourn, rage, rally, love where we don’t want to, see what we’d rather miss. Poetry tells the truth in its own way. As W. H. Auden wrote: “Poetry is not concerned with telling people what to do, but with extending our knowledge of good and evil. . .” But if…
Find out more »Writing Nature
Instructor: Neil Perry Cost: $60 Members | $65 Non-members Saturday, 6/17/17 | 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM How do we use the natural world when we write poems? How does it use us? Is it possible to write a poem that is not 'nature writing' (I say no....)? This seminar will explore the ways poets can use and have used the natural world as a guide, a prompt, an antagonist and an inspiration in poems. We will take long looks at poems that…
Find out more »Pattern and Form in Poetry
Instructor: Kristen Rembold Cost: $142 Members | $158 Non-members 6 Tuesdays, 5/23/17 - 6/27/17 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM This class will be an examination of pattern and form in poetry. All poets are pattern makers. We'll read examples from literature (mainly recent examples) and set about deconstructing/constructing our own forms, too. Participants will have the opportunity to submit and workshop poems each week, and we will view those poems-in-process through the lens of pattern/exception. Even if you don't think of yourself…
Find out more »Evening Poetry
Instructor: Mark Parlette-Carino Cost: $142 Members | $158 Non-members 6 Tuesdays, 5/23/17 - 6/27/17 | 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM This workshop is open to all poets—beginners, dabblers and dedicated writers. In it, you'll have the chance to create and share new work each week. We'll use the workshop, and some discussion of published poems and writing processes, to explore different aspects of what makes poems work—the language, the images, the ideas, the rhetorical structures. Our goal is to marvel at…
Find out more »Of Brevity and Bigness
Instructor:Annie Kim Cost: $60 Members | $65 Non-members Saturday, 8/5/17 | 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM Brevity is the soul of wit. But what of poetry? Working from the premise that even big poems are made up of well-tooled little parts, we'll dig into examples of both big and little poems to unpack the art of poetic brevity. We'll explore ideas for revising work with an eye toward speed and grace. While writers of all levels are welcome, this class…
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