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SUMMARY:Rise & Shine: Winter 2021 | Series of Odes
DESCRIPTION:Rise & Shine is a generative poetry workshop presented by Surprise the Line\, hosted by Nancy Lynée Woo. Started in April 2020\, Rise & Shine began as a daily writing group in response to the pandemic and NaPoWriMo. Now\, the morning meetings rotate throughout the year with different series. \nAbout This Group:\nThe purpose of this space is to generate new words on the page together. We welcome anyone who would like to start their day with an invigorating poetry writing prompt in a communal setting. Rise & Shine will stay free and donation-based to allow anyone access to this generative writing group. \nThe first hour is spent writing\, and whoever would like to stay and share is welcome to read their draft (not a critique space). Invite surprise onto the page! Discover what wants to be written on that particular day without judgment. Lean into the process. \nOdes:\nThe Winter 2021 series will meet Tuesday mornings at 9 am PST\, starting January 19 and ending March 9 (8 weeks). Our focus will be writing odes! \nAn ode is traditionally a lyric poem written in reverence to a particular object or thing. Modern odes allow a lot of room for exploration. For the purposes of this workshop\, writing an ode simply means “paying particular attention to.” We will practice writing close details of a specific object or thing\, with plenty of room to discover what else there is to see underneath. \n“Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.” Anne Enright \nEach week\, the prompt will include an example ode for inspiration and some starting points\, including a broad topic for focus\, if you choose to take it. Like all Surprise the Line workshops\, you do not need to write to the prompt. Follow your own inspiration wherever it leads. \nFor the comfort of participants\, these sessions will not be recorded.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rise-shine-winter-2021-series-of-odes/
LOCATION:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Sharpen Your Pencil: Elements of a Poem in Revision
DESCRIPTION:Do you want your poems to sing more sweetly? Resonate more deeply? Read more beautifully? \nIn this 8-week craft workshop\, you will learn structured techniques for writing and revising poems in a small-group setting. Each week\, we will focus on one specific element in poetry\, and use that topic as a guiding principle for revising our poems. \nOften\, we’re given feedback on our work but might not know exactly what to do next. This class will combine theory with practice. The goal is to equip you with the tools to revise your own poems with grace and ease in order to take your work to the next level. \nWhat You’ll Get Out of This Workshop:\n\n8 lesson packets to help you revise poems\, each focused on a different poetic element\, with example poems and short essays\nMANY prompts for revising poems that you can use any time\nSmall-group witness of your revised poems to encourage positive learning\nA fun\, supportive environment with other awesome poets\nSensitivity and integrity toward your voice and process\nReal-time inspiration and feedback from the group\n\nWhat You’ll Need:\n\nA handful (4-8) of written drafts that you feel have some promise\, but aren’t quite “there” yet\, and you’re not sure what they’re missing or what to do next\nSome time each week to practice a revision technique outside of class (30 minutes minimum)\nAbility to detach from the work so you can revise (and create anew!) with pleasure\nDesire to make your poems the best they can be at this moment in time without judgment\nA beginner’s mindset (no matter how long you’ve been writing)\nA sense of adventure and openness to discovery\nNon-attachment to a specific outcome (this is the magic!)\nRespect\, integrity and playfulness with your peers (we are all learning\, writing and practicing together!)\n\n8-Week Schedule\nWorkshop A will be offered on Wednesday evenings from 6-9pm PST starting January 20 and ending March 10. Workshop B will be offered Thursday mornings from 10am-1pm PST starting January 21 and ending March 11. Please see the calendar for full dates. \n\nWeek 1: From First Draft to Finished – How to approach revision\, editing\, and the creative flow.\nWeek 2: Lines Lines Lines (& Stanzas) – Line breaks\, line lengths\, units of meaning on the page.\nWeek 3: Exploding the Image – Sinking deeper into metaphor & meaning.\nWeek 4: Word Choice & Diction – Words are pretty important to poems.\nWeek 5: Repetition & Patterns – Let’s investigate how refrains can change the game.\nWeek 6: Sound & Rhythm – Poems are music! Can you make them siiiing?\nWeek 7: Titles & Endings – Let’s not overlook these important bookends!\nWeek 8: Final Workshop – Recap and Review\n\nWorkshop Structure:\nWe’ll spend some time in the first meeting talking about what revision is\, how to do it\, and what our blocks/goals are. You’ll be invited to bring a working poem in to share with the group to introduce your work and receive productive feedback. Then\, at the end of the first class\, you’ll receive the prompt for the week to try out some revision techniques for that poem. When you return next week\, bring both the earlier draft and the revised version to share! \nBecause the focus is on revising our work\, each week you will be given the opportunity to revise a piece\, and then share both versions. The purpose of this is to get feedback from the group about how the poem has evolved to reinforce what you are learning. If the poem feels “done\,” great! If not\, we celebrate a step in its development. \nBONUS: For anyone writing toward a manuscript right now\, this class provides a great opportunity to revise your 8 poems toward a specific theme\, topic\, narrative or question\, if you choose to\, with a bonus prompt for guidance. \nCritique Style as Witness:\nIn this style of workshop\, we practice “witness” as our mode of giving comments on each other’s work rather than “criticism.” This means that we speak from our personal viewpoint (own your “I”)\, make observations rather than criticisms (what we notice rather than what’s “wrong”)\, ask productive questions\, and give all feedback with the intent of helping the writer learn more about their own process of writing that poem. \nWriting poetry is an act of discovery\, and it is a privilege to be able to take part in each other’s discovery process. In this way\, we cultivate an atmosphere of trust\, respect and integrity. We never tell another writer the “correct answer” to their poem; rather\, we act as believing mirrors for each other’s work and help each other recognize nuggets of beauty to be explored. \nMotivating Philosophy:\nStructure allows room for experimentation. Add elements of craft to your unique aesthetic\, stir\, and see what happens. Taking our work seriously doesn’t mean taking ourselves too seriously! Invite surprise onto the page. Have fun! Poetry is discovery. What else is there to do but create? \nLimit 6 per group
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sharpen-your-pencil-elements-of-a-poem-in-revision/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Ismail Muhammad & Marie Mutsuki Mockett
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, May 5\, 2021\, 2:00pm via Zoom \nIsmail Muhammad is the reviews editor for The Believer\, a staff writer at the Millions\, a contributing editor at ZYZZYVA\, and a board member at the National Books Critics Circle. He’s been a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critics Fellowship\, and a Simpson Family Literary Fellow. His work\, which focuses on literature\, art\, identity\, and black popular and visual culture\, has appeared in publications like The New York Times\, Slate\, New Republic\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Real Life\, and Catapult. \nIn Spring 2021\, Muhammad is teaching English 361: Contemporary Nonfiction \n\nMarie Mutsuki Mockett’s memoir\, Where the Dead Pause and the Japanese Say Goodbye\, was a finalist for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award\, the Indies Choice for Nonfiction and the Northern California Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. She received a Fellowship from the US/Japan Creative Artist Fellowship\, funded by the NEA. Her novel\, Picking Bones from Ash\, published by Graywolf\, was a finalist for the Saroyan Prize and the Paterson Prize. Her new book\, American Harvest: God\, Country and Farming in the Heartland\, published by Graywolf in April 2020\, was a finalist for the Lukas Prize. \nIn 2020-2021 Mockett is teaching English 372: Craft Seminar in Creative Nonfiction\, English 332: Fiction Workshop\, and English 342: Fiction Tutorial
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ismail-muhammad-marie-mutsuki-mockett/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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SUMMARY:Special Presentation: Anne Lamott
DESCRIPTION:This event is online.\nA constant reader favorite with over a dozen bestsellers to her name\, there’s one Bay Area author who has earned an international reputation for raw honesty and contagious optimism. A specialist on hope during dark times\, this is exactly the person we want to hear from when the going gets tough. \nFor a special\, one-of-a-kind\, multi-bookstore presentation and book launch\, Kepler’s is proud to present the vividly funny Anne Lamott for Dusk\, Night\, Dawn: On Revival and Courage. For years\, our readers have sung the praises of Lamott’s soul-searching and inspiring memoirs—books like Operating Instructions\, Small Victories\, Help\, Thanks\, Wow and Bird by Bird. Now\, Lamott offers a pathway to rediscovering hope and stability in a world turned upside down. In collaboration with Riverhead Books and other independent booksellers including Vroman’s\, Bookshop Santa Cruz and Book Passage\, Kepler’s Literary Foundation is thrilled to host this uniquely uplifting hour of conversation. \nAs bad news piles up—from climate crises to the daily crush of one unprecedented news item after another—how can we cope? Where\, Lamott asks\, “do we start to get our world and joy and hope and our faith in life itself back…with our sore feet\, hearing loss\, stiff fingers\, poor digestion\, stunned minds\, broken hearts?” \nWe begin\, Lamott says\, by accepting our flaws and embracing our humanity. In a one-hour webinar presentation\, the thoughtful\, warm\, comic\, and wise Lamott guides us back to the better angels of our nature. \nAll tickets include a hardcover of Dusk\, Night\, Dawn. A *limited* number of signed copies are available on a first come\, first-served basis. Pre-order early to ensure a signed copy. \nPlease note: This event will be pre-recorded and live streamed to ticketholders in a secure webinar at 6pm PST on March 1\, 2021. Ticketholders are invited to pre-submit Q&A at the time of registration\, and there will be no live Q&A. \nThis is a very special book launch event\, held the evening before the book’s official publication date. Shipping and pickup of books will not take place until after this launch event webinar—more complete book shipment and pickup information will be sent by email to individual ticketholders. Tickets are non-refundable.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/special-presentation-anne-lamott/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Patricia Lockwood in conversation with Sheila Heti
DESCRIPTION:City Arts & Lectures presents: Patricia Lockwood in conversation with Sheila Heti\nMonday\, March 1\, 2021\n6:00pm Pacific Time\nKQED Broadcast: 03/14/2021\, 03/16/2021\, 03/17/2021\nTICKETS \nThis event appears in the series\nFiction/Friction: A Miniseries \n \n\n\n“I really admire and love this book. Patricia Lockwood is a completely singular talent and [No One is Talking About This] is her best\, funniest\, weirdest\, most affecting work yet.” – Sally Rooney \nPatricia Lockwood is a poet and the author of the memoir Priestdaddy\, an extraordinarily funny account of growing up the daughter of the most singular Catholic priest in America. Lockwood is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books\, and has written on Nabokov\, John Updike\, Lucia Berlin\, Joan Didion\, the Internet\, and more\, suffusing her book reviews with her characteristic wit and analytic breadth. She also has a vast following on Twitter\, which regularly features her Internet-famous cat\, Miette. Lockwood is the author of the two poetry collections Balloon Pop Outlaw Black and Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals. Her forthcoming first novel\, No One is Talking About This\, reckons with the feeling of being eternally online\, unable to shut off the feed that keeps on scrolling\, no matter what we do to stop it. \nSheila Heti is the author of eight books of fiction and non-fiction\, including the novels Motherhood\,  How Should a Person Be? and Ticknor\, and the story collection\, The Middle Stories. She was named one of “The New Vanguard” by The New York Times; a list of fifteen women writers from around the world who are “shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century.” Her play\, All Our Happy Days are Stupid\, had sold-out runs in New York and Toronto\, and she is currently developing a new play called The Dug Out. Her new novel\, Pure Colour\, will be published in January 2022.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patricia-lockwood-in-conversation-with-sheila-heti/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Know Your Name with Virgie Tovar\, Author\, Podcaster\, Educator & Icon
DESCRIPTION:How do we begin to see the elements that enable rape culture as the elements that are built into the structure and ethos of how we think about gender\, bodies\, food and weight? Virgie Tovar\, author of The Self-Love Revolution: Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color and You Have the Right to Remain Fat leads this evening session with meditation\, a short discussion and journaling. Bring your journal\, a snack and a cup of tea. \nVirgie Tovar hosts the podcast Rebel Eaters Club\, is a contributor for Forbes.com and started the hashtag campaign #LoseHateNotWeight. Tovar is the author of The Self-Love Revolution: Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color (New Harbinger Publications 2020) and You Have the Right to Remain Fat (Feminist Press 2018).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/workshop-know-your-name-with-virgie-tovar-author-podcaster-educator-icon/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library – Virtual Library
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Virtual
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