Spring 2007 Workshops at Writers & Books

Poetry

The Right Madness: A Course for New Voices in Poetry

• SA7-P101
• 6 Tuesdays 7 –9 p.m.
• May 22 through June 26
• $119 W&B members / $125 general public
• Instructor: Steven Huff

You’ve been writing poetry—though you may not have told anyone what you’re up to—and you’ve read some poets, and maybe you’ve been to a poetry reading or two. Now what you need is a small classroom of supportive people like yourself who want to explore the art more deeply by writing, reading, and critiquing under the guidance of a teacher. Steven Huff will bring years of experience as a poet, poetry editor, and as a teacher to this class of basic poetry writing and reading.

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Intersections: Working Poets

• SA7-P102
  5 Tuesdays, 7–9 p.m.
  May 29 through June 26
  $99 W&B members / $105
  Instructor: Linda Allardt

This workshop is for intermediate and advanced poets to exchange deep reading and helpful criticism of student poems under the guidance of an experienced poet / editor / teacher. The instructor will offer published poems for the students to read and study, but the focus will be on students’ own work. Some workshop experience is expected, as well as a body of unpublished poems for discussion. Please submit two poems with registration for use in the first two classes.

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Stone by Stone: Assembling a Poetry Manuscript

• SA7-P103
• 2 Saturdays, 10 a.m.–noon
• June 9–16
• $45 W&B members / $52 general public
• Instructor: Steven Huff

You’ve published some poems, you’ve written a lot more, and now you’re thinking about a chapbook or even a full-length book manuscript. The instructor will take you through manuscript mechanics, rationales for deciding what to include and what to keep out, and building a cohesive manuscript that will catch an editor’s eye. He will give you a behind-the-scenes look at how publishing actually works, and how to approach a publisher.

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Poetry: The Sense and the Image

• SA7-P104
  6 Mondays, 7–9 p.m.
  April 16 through May 21
  $119 W&B members / $125 general public
  Instructor: Ron Bailey

Designed for beginning and intermediate poets, this class will look at the power of what e. e. cummings called the invitation of the senses to create strong images. Open to all styles, each week participants will discuss one piece of published work by Billy Collins, Ted Kooser, or Mary Oliver that the instructor will provide. Each week we will also write a poem to be workshopped (please bring enough copies for everyone) in a helpful, supportive environment.

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Myth and Transcendence in Your Life Story

• WA7-P08
• 3 Saturdays, 11 a.m.–1 p.m.
• April 14 through 28
• $37 W&B members / $39 general public
• Instructor: Akua Lezli Hope

This women-only workshop for adult writers welcomes both new and experienced women poets. “Myth and Transendence in Your Life Story” is the focus of this poetry-writing workshop where participants are invited to exploren their personal histories to recover/discover the mythic and to create poems based on what is found there.

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Visiting Author:
Master Class with Jeffrey Ethan Lee: Poetry and Identity

• SA7-P105
• One Saturday, 10 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
• May 5
• Price $36 W&B members / $39 general public
• Instructor: Jeffrey Ethan Lee

In this master class, poet Jeffrey Ethan Lee will talk about his fourth book of poems, identity papers, and about the search for identity that propels some people headlong into the art and journey that is poetry. Participants are encouraged to bring their own poems for workshopping and critiquing in a supportive group. Lee will also lead the group in a creative writing exercise on the theme of transforming difficult experiences into imaginative growth

On the previous evening, May 4, 7:30 p.m. Mr. Lee will read from his book, identity papers, and from other recent work.

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