Posts tagged "Brenda Coultas"

38th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon Benefit Reading

[ Sunday, January 1, 2012; 3:00 pm; ] There are three things to consider when the New Year’s Day Poetry Marathon sweeps you into its gracefully uncouth embrace — what it is, what it was, and who you will be when it’s over. An untamed gathering of the heart’s secret, wild nobility — over 140 poets together revealing not just that a better [...]

Studying Hunger Journals Reading (excerpts) – 2/23/11

Spring Workshop Reading

[ Wednesday, June 8, 2011; 8:00 pm; ] Wednesday
Students in the Spring workshops at The Poetry Poject read their work. The Spring workshops are lead by Brenda Coultas, Filip Marinovich, Kristin Prevallet, and Ronaldo V. Wilson.

WHERE THE ABSTRACT MEETS THE STREET – BRENDA COULTAS

[ Tuesday, February 8, 2011; 7:00 pm; ] TUESDAYS 7-9PM: 10 SESSIONS BEGINNING FEBRUARY 8TH

This workshop is an investigation into interior states of the psyche and takes its cue from the physical world. We will look at work that begins with the concrete, maybe objects, bodies or places, and find the intersection where the abstract meets the street. We [...]

Final Post from Guest Blogger Brenda Coultas

Blog 4, Final Report
March 24.
Last class before Spring break. The room is hot and smells like the french fries that a student is eating before class begins. Probably her dinner for the night and at least a thousand calories. (I’ve seen students dump about 6 packs of sugar into their coffee).  I borrow a fan, [...]

Post 3 from Guest Blogger Brenda Coultas

Hated the Martin McDoughal play “A Behanding in Spokane.” Racist, I kept waiting for some point to be made. None was. An audience of white tourists laughing at the n-word.
Wish I’d waited till the reviews, esp. New Yorker one, were in before buying tickets but I wanted to see Christopher Walken on stage.
March 19
Eleni and [...]

Post 2 from Guest Blogger Brenda Coultas

March 6
(From Woodstock)
Bernadette and Phil are going to see The Crazies, a horror flick, in Hudson tonight. Last film we saw with them was Boogeyman in Catskill.
Bird songs, fresh mint crawling out from the snow.
Deer scat in back yard.
Going for a walk with Grace Murphy, that one, the one with all the 2nd generation NY [...]

Post 1 from March Guest Blogger – Brenda Coultas

A POET’S NOTEBOOK
March 3, 2010
I envision this as workspace: a place to build a form, to gaze, to know or to try things out.
Did you know there is a field of poetry therapists?
Picture of Sylvia Plath in the chapter on depression in an Introduction to Psychology textbook. Sometimes its a photo of Virginia Woolf,  Great, [...]