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Sunday, June 25, 2023
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Monday, June 26, 2023
- Featured June 26, 2023 -Featured The Art of Erasure
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The Art of Erasure
Poetry depends on compression and distillation, and it succeeds when it makes (and shares) discoveries and surprises. These surprises often come by way of metaphor. How do we free ourselves to find fresh and surprising metaphors and make wild (but effective) connections between things in this world that have not previously been connected? How do […]
Tuesday, June 27, 2023
- Featured June 27, 2023 -Featured History & Word Play: Mixing the Previously Unmixed to Cook New Poems
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History & Word Play: Mixing the Previously Unmixed to Cook New Poems
We know about the magic of salt, fat, acid, and heat in the kitchen. In this workshop, participants will explore two magic elements in poetry -- history and word play – and experiment with them to write their own poems. Note: Participants might consider using the poem they begin in this workshop as content for […]
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
- Featured June 28, 2023 -Featured The Art of the Letter
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The Art of the Letter
In this workshop we’ll read examples of the epistle – poems written as letters to others – and then write our own letter poems or letter prose poems. The epistle allows a writer to engage in something that feels like a private exchange. The result can be delightful for both writer and reader. Epistolary poems […]
Thursday, June 29, 2023
- Featured June 29, 2023 -Featured Compression & Intensity: Short Story Prose
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Compression & Intensity: Short Story Prose
We’ll read some powerful and delightful examples of very short prose, and we’ll think about what a vessel the size of a paragraph can hold. Maybe you’ll create a map or a list. Maybe you’ll write a tiny essay. Note: Participants might consider using this as content for the artist’s book we’ll make in a […]
Friday, June 30, 2023
- Featured June 30, 2023 -Featured Make Your Own Accordion Book
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Make Your Own Accordion Book
In this workshop, guest artist Cindy Hunter Morgan will be teaching participants how to make their own accordion books. We’ll cover book board with Italian book cloth and hand fold our paper to form the pages of our books. Participants will leave their own completed books and can choose whether to leave these books blank […]
Saturday, July 1, 2023
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