Posts tagged "Workshops"

Poem As Project: Project As Poem – Dan Machlin

[ Saturday, February 13, 2010; 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm. ] Dan Machlin will be teaching a ten-week long Saturday afternoon workshop, beginning February 13, 2010. The class will meet in the Neighborhood Preservation Center from 12-2 pm.

When poets or artists create work as part of some greater artistic or social project, this context dramatically impacts the way that we read or perceive their work. In [...]

Longer Poems, Or The Present As Illogical Complication – Anselm Berrigan

[ Friday, February 12, 2010; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Anselm Berrigan will be teaching a ten-week long Friday evening workshop, beginning February 12, 2010. The class will meet in the Parish Hall from 7-9 pm.

This workshop will focus heavily on the reading and discussion of longer poems and the visible and invisible strategies for creating and sustaining shape and momentum evident within their reading. [...]

Simple Text(S): Poetry In And Around Prose – Sharon Mesmer

[ Tuesday, February 9, 2010; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Sharon Mesmer will be teaching a ten-week long Tuesday evening workshop, beginning February 9, 2010. The class will meet in the Parish Hall from 7-9 pm.

You’ve heard it before: why is it that poets can write prose, but prose writers can’t write poetry? Maybe it’s because prose writers haven’t fully explored the places where poetry [...]

Fall Workshop Reading

[ Friday, January 8, 2010; 8:00 pm; ] Friday
Students from the Fall writing workshops, led by Vito Acconci and Mitch Highfill, will share their work.

Drawing the Boundaries of a Fire – Paolo Javier

[ Saturday, October 10, 2009; 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm. ] Paolo Javier will be teaching a ten-week long Saturday afternoon workshop, beginning October 10, 2009. The class will meet in the Parish Hall from 12-2 pm.

Since the advent of the modern cartoon strip, poets, artists, and poet-artists alike have turned to its language as a vital source for innovation in their own practice. We will [...]

Poetry and Magic – Mitch Highfill

[ Friday, October 9, 2009; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Mitch Highfill will be teaching a ten-week long Friday evening workshop, beginning October 9, 2009. The class will meet in the Parish Hall from 7-9pm.

This workshop takes the work of Jack Spicer and “the practice of the outside” as a starting point. We will explore different technologies long associated with magic (technologies such as spells, [...]

Building Architecture, Landscapes & Poems – Vito Acconci

[ Tuesday, October 6, 2009; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Vito Acconci will be teaching a ten-week long Tuesday evening workshop, beginning October 6, 2009. The class will meet in the Parish Hall from 7-9pm.

Poetry from another direction: poetry ‘caused by’ architecture & design…

Architectural materials & words as matter (‘concrete’ words, not abstractions – William Carlos Williams’ ‘No idea but in things’); the structure – [...]