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10th Anniversary Workshop Descriptions
The Poets’ Place
Adrian Castro - A workshop will be conducted focusing on writing about place. We will examine poems both from workshop participants and other poets that
exemplify the use of place. We will also ask where is that place? Where is that physical place, that geographical place, and also where is that mental place? Is that
place existent, nostalgic, dreamt, etc.? Participants will bring to the workshop poems with these themes. Feedback will be given based on the Liz Lerhman method,
which focuses feedback beginning from the artist place of inspiration and creative space, then from the reader’s/listener’s perspective—i.e. what the reader thought,
felt, assimilated while reading the poem. Lastly poets will be encouraged to appropriately render their poems out aloud—from their voice, their perspective, their place
10AM -12N, October 22, 2005 at Auburn Senior Center.
Basic Elements
Lisa Jarnot - This seminar will focus on the basic building blocks of the poem, beginning with vowels, consonants, and syllable clusters, and evolving toward an evaluation of the larger metrical structures inherent in poetry-- phrases, lines, and stanzas . Working from Louis Zukofsky's idea that poetry can be evaluated within the range of ³Lower level speech, upper level music² , we'll explore ways to locate the musicality of different kinds of poetry and we'll ask what makes a poem tick. During the workshop we'll read poems that adhere to metrical forms and we'll also look at "Open Verse" poems. In addition we'll write some poems of our own. 2P-4P, October 22, 2005 at Auburn Senior Center.
Traffic in the Literary Intersection
Paul Hunter - What do writers want? What do publishers want? What do readers want? What is the relationship of these three key players, and how do the needs and desires of all three interact? A discussion of what it means to write, read, and work in the vineyard of literature, and where we might all find ourselves. 10AM -12N, October 22, 2005 at Auburn Library.
Writing Experiments and Games
Chuck Pirtle - We'll loosen mind and hand with some writing exercises derived from experimental forms -
mistranslation, dictionary poem, "writing through" another poet's work, cut-ups, surrealist writing games -
based on examples by poets such as Ted Berrigan, Lew Welch, John Cage, William Burroughs, and Tristan Tzara.
2P-4P-ish, October 22, 2005 at Auburn Library.
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