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SUMMARY:Honoring Reuben Jackson: Music as Muse
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is a celebration and study of the life and work of Reuben Jackson who mentored generations of writers and taught at The Writer’s Center for over a decade. During the course of five sessions together\, we will write vignettes about our interactions with this top-shelf teacher\, poet\, and jazz scholar. In addition\, we will carefully read his poetry and use them as generative prompts to create new work. We will culminate this workshop at The Writer’s Center in a public reading/celebration to honor Mr. Jackson and keep his literary legacy alive on October 4.
URL:https://writer.org/event/honoring-reuben-jackson-music-as-muse/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:5 Sessions,All Levels,Poetry,Workshop,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260912T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260912T140000
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SUMMARY:Ekphrastic Fantastic: Responses and Conversations with Art
DESCRIPTION:Ekphratic Poetry or poetry in conversation with art can seem formulaic; see a piece of art and use elements of it in a poem I am making. But why stop there? In this generative workshop\, participants will be encouraged to embody their piece of art (visual\, music\, or dance) as a means of saying what only they can say about that piece of art. Students will learn many different approaches to ekphrasis and will leave with a draft of a new poem.
URL:https://writer.org/event/ekphrastic-fantastic-responses-and-conversations-with-art/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:1 Session,Intermediate/Advanced Level,Poetry,Workshop,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260916T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260930T203000
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SUMMARY:Reading and Responding to Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons
DESCRIPTION:Join the tribe that loves word play to explore Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons.\n  \nWe will write response poems and learn from the strategies of this early Modernist poet who still intrigues well into the Post Modernism of today. Let’s investigate and play with Stein’s words such as\, “The sudden spoon is the same in no size” or “grass greediness” or “a white hunter is nearly crazy.” A copy of From the Belly: Poets Respond to Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons will be included in this course offering.
URL:https://writer.org/event/reading-and-responding-to-gertrude-steins-tender-buttons/
LOCATION:The Writer’s Center\, 4508 Walsh Street\, Bethesda\, MD\, 20815\, United States
CATEGORIES:3 Sessions,All Levels,Poetry,The Writer's Center,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260917T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260917T200000
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SUMMARY:The Visual Language of Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Delve into a poem’s visual language. Participants will learn techniques that poets use every day to form undeniably poignant work. Generative writing exercises and examples will encourage participants to view their writing in a new way. With multiple works written in-workshop\, place your pieces in a small portfolio. This workshop emphasizes the poetic line and varying syntax. Participants will leave with more strategies to begin a poem and vary their syntax.
URL:https://writer.org/event/the-visual-language-of-poetry/
LOCATION:The Writer’s Center\, 4508 Walsh Street\, Bethesda\, MD\, 20815\, United States
CATEGORIES:1 Session,All Levels,Poetry,The Writer's Center,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260917T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261029T200000
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SUMMARY:Writing the Cento and the Bop
DESCRIPTION:The cento and the bop offer poets two radically different ways to make language communal\, musical\, and newly strange. Through close reading\, discussion\, generative exercises\, and brief sharing\, participants will explore the cento’s collage of borrowed lines and the bop’s movement through argument\, refrain\, and release. We will consider quotation\, attribution\, sonic pattern\, cultural memory\, ekphrasis\, and the productive tension between influence and originality. By the end of the workshop\, each participant will have drafted either a complete cento or the central architecture of a bop\, along with strategies for revising it. No preparation is required\, though participants may bring a favorite poem\, song lyric\, artwork\, or small collection of language they would like to work from. \nThe proposal builds directly from the attached materials’ treatment of the cento as a composite of previously written lines and the bop as a 23-line form organized into three stanzas with recurring refrains.\nThe materials also frame both forms as methods of historical looking\, cultural recombination\, and resistance to narrow ideas of authorship.
URL:https://writer.org/event/writing-the-cento-and-the-bop/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:7 Sessions,All Levels,Poetry,Workshop,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260919T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260919T123000
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SUMMARY:Freedom With Forms
DESCRIPTION:Here’s an opportunity to shed any misconception that poetic forms are only constricting. We will do brief writing exercises that use the enchantment of meter and rhyme to free your deeper imagination. After exploring several traditional forms\, we will experiment with creating improvised (nonce) forms. Participants may leave with at least one new draft poem and ideas for creating more.
URL:https://writer.org/event/freedom-with-forms-2/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:1 Session,All Levels,Poetry,Workshop,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260919T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260919T130000
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SUMMARY:The Poetry Of Human Rights
DESCRIPTION:We will read and write poems that increase our knowledge of war and peacemaking\, We will seek to define terms. What is war? What is a poem written in the wake of a bombing? Who has the right to write the poem? Does poetry make something happen? Can we save ourselves\, our communities\, our countries by writing?
URL:https://writer.org/event/the-poetry-of-human-rights/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:1 Session,All Levels,Poetry,Workshop,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260920T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261011T160000
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SUMMARY:Haiku\, Tanka\, and Senryu
DESCRIPTION:The goal of this course is to introduce the participant to three Japanese poetic forms: the haiku\, tanka\, and senryu and guide a writing practice that includes these forms. Each week the participant will read examples of poetry in one of the Japanese forms and then generate some poems. By the end of the workshop\, the participant will have generated poems in the three Japanese forms and feel confident in writing in these forms.
URL:https://writer.org/event/haiku-tanka-and-senryu/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:4 Sessions,All Levels,Poetry,Workshop,Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260921T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261123T200000
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SUMMARY:Finish Your Poetry Book
DESCRIPTION:Whether you have just started your manuscript\, or have made significant progress\, this course will help you get over the finish line. We’ll learn how to structure the book in a way that adds layers of meaning to the poems within\, generate new work to fill in the structure\, and hone poems until they are book-ready. To finish\, students will revise the book as a whole and make a publication plan.
URL:https://writer.org/event/finish-your-poetry-book/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:10 Sessions,Intermediate/Advanced Level,Poetry,Workshop,Zoom
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