Looking for a short-term poetry tuneup? A place to learn about and write poetry? A fun thing to do on three Monday nights?
Michele Madigan Somerville will be teaching a special poetry workshop at Brooklyn Arts Exchange in Park
Slope, in June.
June 1,8, 15, from 7 -9. Her focus will be on creating a small collection – or a
chapbook.
Hey, I've already signed up.
This workshop will be a great opportunity for
emerging poets, poets preparing chapbooks, and for writers
in other genres who have a bunch of work on the way to being poems to assemble for a non-menacing, saucy enough and not at all
ponderous two hours of reasonably exciting
poetry discourse.
emerging poets, poets preparing chapbooks, and for writers
in other genres who have a bunch of work on the way to being poems to assemble for a non-menacing, saucy enough and not at all
ponderous two hours of reasonably exciting
poetry discourse.
I know Michele and she gives great written editorial
feedback.
feedback.
So, if you know of anyone who is looking for a short-term poetry tuneup, send them to: The Brooklyn Arts Exchange website is www.bax.org. The phone number is 718 832
0018 Here's Michele's blurb about the class:
0018 Here's Michele's blurb about the class:
For many writers of poetry, poems emerge in groups, clusters, as parts
of a larger whole in search of a collection. In this workshop we'll
start from the presumption that we're working on collections of verse,
and go on from there. Writers will be encouraged to produce short books
(chapbooks) of poems before completing the workshop.
of a larger whole in search of a collection. In this workshop we'll
start from the presumption that we're working on collections of verse,
and go on from there. Writers will be encouraged to produce short books
(chapbooks) of poems before completing the workshop.
We'll read some short texts by masters and examine a few short books
(as models) during the sessions. We'll discover that pieces which do
not on the face seem to be part of a whole — often are.
*Michele is an award-winning poet and author of the book WISEGAL and the forthcoming Black Irish.
Always surprised how poems organize themselves. Sounds like a good workshop.