9:00 AM - 10:10 AM : Workshop facilitated by Lionel Kearns
What are we up to now? There is good reason why poetic form changes as we move through history.
Like everything else, it is shaped and constrained by the media we use to embody it. Never before has there
been such a diversity of means for the production, presentation, and propagation of our work, hence the wide range of
poetic form in our day. This workshop will consider the whole spectrum of possibility and potential that we (the poets) have at hand.
Bring your insights, ideas, examples and questions. We will take nothing for granted as we consider the current state of the art.
10:20 AM - 11:40 AM : Workshop facilitated by José Kozer
The participant should bring its own poetry, each poem a maximum of two double spaced pages, with sufficient photocopies for all the
participants, in order to peruse the material, line by line, word by word, I dare say, syllable by syllable, and in a cordial atmosphere,
among all, to deal with the poems in such a way that we criticize, ascertain and try objectively to better the poem: by which it is
meant to have the poem in such a state that the author should deem it ready for publication.
We will work with one poem per participant, and when the cycle is completed will try and do a second round of criticism.
If time allows, we should hold a discussion as to general results of our experience, followed by a short poetry reading which
should involve all participants.
The workshop is in English but if anyone wishes to bring poems in Spanish to be dealt with in its English translation, it would be fine with me.
11:50 AM - 1:00 PM : Workshop facilitated by Lorraine Healy
Surrealist poetic games
Using some updated ideas that originated with the Surrealist movement in the 1920s,
we will create new poems in the course of this workshop. If we tell you more, we give too much away!
bring paper, pen/pencil, and a willingness to have fun and get a little wacky with language.
1:00-2:00 PM Break
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM : Workshop facilitated by Deborah Woodard
Writing Alongside William Blake
Using William Blake's visual art and words to guide us, we will explore his poems of innocence and experience
and write our own poems along those themes. We will discover that the worlds of innocence and experience are,
at heart, interdependent, with imagery shuttling back and forth to create a fully-dimensioned representation of the human soul.
3:35 PM - 4:45 PM : Workshop facilitated by Sam Green
Mentoring Young Poets
Most young people, at one time or another, turn to poetry as an outlet for dealing with strong emotional feelings.
Parents want to encourage this, but often do not quite know how to do it. This workshop discusses how to ratify
the urge toward saying the unsayable (as Rilke says), with resource guides, writing ideas, and helpful hints
about how to provide gentle critical feedback.
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