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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.
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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
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SUMMARY:Using Invented and Foreign Languages as Tools for World Building: A Fiction Workshop with Rita Bullwinkel
DESCRIPTION:A dynamic Fiction Workshop facilitated by author\, Rita Bullwinkel. This workshop will be held every Saturday 10 AM – 12 PM from Mar 6 – Apr 10.\n\nCLA WRITERS WORKSHOPS are open to individuals of all backgrounds–including those who are exploring creative writing for the first time–as well as aspiring writers who want to prepare their work for publication. Workshops are modeled on graduate-level creative writing courses\, and may include short in-class writing assignments to jumpstart the writing process\, as well as work outside of class that will entail reading the work of select published writers\, critiquing the work of other workshop participants\, and writing a piece to be workshopped by the class. Each participant will receive written comments from the instructor. Workshops are led by accomplished local authors\, including students and alumni of the San Jose State University Creative Writing Program.\nTuition $250 // Eventbrite\n\nCOURSE DESCRIPTION:\nOne of the big things that makes us\, as readers of fiction\, read on into a book is mystery and\, very often\, that mystery comes in the form of a word or idea we don’t yet understand. As a writer\, one way to rope your readers in is to deliberately use words that you know your audience might not understand\, and then\, through context\, teach your readers the meaning of those words. This is a tool used frequently in fantasy as well as literary writing. In this workshop we will explore several examples of this invaluable literary tool and learn how we can best deploy this strategy in our own fiction.\nRita Bullwinkel is the author of the story collection Belly Up\, which won the 2018 Believer Book Award. Bullwinkel’s writing has been published in Tin House\, The White Review\, Conjunctions\, BOMB\, Vice\, NOON\, and Guernica. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony\, Brown University\, Vanderbilt University\, Hawthornden Castle\, and The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Both her fiction and translation have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She is an Editor at Large for McSweeney’s and a Contributing Editor for NOON. She lives in San Francisco and teaches at the California College of the Arts.
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SUMMARY:Suzanne Simard: Pioneering scientist discusses her anticipated book\, Finding the Mother Tree
DESCRIPTION:Suzanne Simard\, a pioneering scientist who has changed the way we understand forest ecosystems\, joins us to discuss her highly anticipated first book\, Finding the Mother Tree (Knopf). \n“Suzanne Simard’s Finding the Mother Tree reminds us that the world is a web of stories\, connecting us to one another. Her vivid manuscript carries the stories of trees\, fungi\, soil and bears—and of a human being listening in on the conversation . . . I have great admiration for her science and her storytelling alike. These are stories that the world needs to hear.” —Robin Wall Kimmerer \nThis event is co-sponsored by Emergence Magazine and will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTRATION INFO COMING SOON. \nAbout Finding the Mother Tree\nSuzanne Simard is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence; she’s been compared to Rachel Carson\, hailed as a scientist who conveys complex\, technical ideas in a way that is dazzling and profound. Her work has influenced filmmakers (the Tree of Souls of James Cameron’s Avatar) and her TED talks have been viewed by more than 10 million people worldwide. \nNow\, in her first book\, Simard brings us into her world\, the intimate world of the trees\, in which she brilliantly illuminates the fascinating and vital truths–that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp\, but are a complicated\, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social\, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities with communal lives not that different from our own. \nSimard writes–in inspiring\, illuminating\, and accessible ways–how trees\, living side by side for hundreds of years\, have evolved\, how they perceive one another\, learn and adapt their behaviors\, recognize neighbors\, and remember the past; how they have agency about the future; elicit warnings and mount defenses\, compete and cooperate with one another with sophistication\, characteristics ascribed to human intelligence\, traits that are the essence of civil societies–and at the center of it all\, the Mother Trees: the mysterious\, powerful forces that connect and sustain the others that surround them. \nSimard writes of her own life\, born and raised into a logging world in the rainforests of British Columbia\, of her days as a child spent cataloging the trees from the forest and how she came to love and respect them–embarking on a journey of discovery\, and struggle. And as she writes of her scientific quest\, she writes of her own journey–of love and loss\, of observation and change\, of risk and reward\, making us understand how deeply human scientific inquiry exists beyond data and technology\, that it is about understanding who we are and our place in the world\, and\, in writing of her own life\, we come to see the true connectedness of the Mother Tree that nurtures the forest in the profound ways that families and human societies do\, and how these inseparable bonds enable all our survival. \nAbout Suzanne Simard\nDR. SUZANNE SIMARD was born in the Monashee Mountains of British Columbia and was educated at the University of British Columbia and Oregon State University. She is Professor of Forest Ecology in the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Forestry.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/suzanne-simard-pioneering-scientist-discusses-her-anticipated-book-finding-the-mother-tree/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Readings by Jen Burke Anderson\, Ryan Fox\, Sarah Schweig\, and Molly Spencer\nHosted by Peter Kline\nBazaar Writers Salon Zoom meeting – see link and password below.\n\nJen Burke Anderson is a San Francisco writer whose creative nonfiction story “Daybreak Nation” placed honorable mention in 2020’s Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition. Her short story “Soul Survivor\,” winner of the 2018 Sue Granzella Humor Prize\, appeared in BULL: Men’s Fiction in autumn 2020. This spring she’ll be acting in her radio drama “Paper Thin” on KFJC 89.7fm. You can find her on Instagram at jen.burke.anderson (no end period).\nRyan Fox is the recipient of an MFA from the University of Virginia\, where he was Poetry Editor of Meridian\, and a JD from Fordham University School of Law\, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Fordham Intellectual Property\, Media & Entertainment Law Journal. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker\, Iowa Review\, New Ohio Review\, Caketrain\, New Orleans Review\, Prelude and others. A winner of the 2016 Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Contest and the recipient of a residency from the Yaddo Corporation\, he lives in New York City\, where he practices copyright law.\nSarah V. Schweig is the author of Take Nothing with You (University of Iowa Press\, 2016). Her poetry and criticism has appeared in BOMB\, Boston Review\, Granta\, Iowa Review\, The Literary Review\, Public Seminar\, Tin House\, and elsewhere. She lives and works in New York City\, where she also studies philosophy at The New School for Social Research.\nMolly Spencer is a poet\, critic\, and editor. Her debut collection\, If the House (2019)\, won the Brittingham Prize judged by Carl Phillips. A second collection\, Hinge (2020) won the Crab Orchard Open Competition judged by Allison Joseph. Molly’s poetry has appeared in Blackbird\, FIELD\, New England Review\, Ploughshares\, and Prairie Schooner. Her critical writing has appeared at Colorado Review\, The Georgia Review\, Kenyon Review\, The Writer’s Chronicle\, and The Rumpus\, where she is a senior poetry editor. She teaches at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.\n\n____\n\nHi there\,\nPeter Kline is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.\nTopic: Bazaar Writers Salon\nTime: Mar 7\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nJoin from PC\, Mac\, Linux\, iOS or Android: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/95846669502…\nPassword: 198502\nOr iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +18333021536\,\,95846669502# or +16507249799\,\,95846669502#\nOr Telephone:\nDial: +1 650 724 9799 (US\, Canada\, Caribbean Toll) or +1 833 302 1536 (US\, Canada\, Caribbean Toll Free)\nMeeting ID: 958 4666 9502\nPassword: 198502\nInternational numbers available: https://stanford.zoom.us/u/abODiiFllC\nMeeting ID: 958 4666 9502\nPassword: 198502\nSIP: 95846669502@zoomcrc.com\nPassword: 198502
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-16/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon Zoom Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Readings by Jen Burke Anderson\, Ryan Fox\, Sarah Schweig\, and Molly Spencer\nHosted by Peter Kline\nBazaar Writers Salon Zoom meeting – see link and password below.\n\nJen Burke Anderson is a San Francisco writer whose creative nonfiction story “Daybreak Nation” placed honorable mention in 2020’s Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition. Her short story “Soul Survivor\,” winner of the 2018 Sue Granzella Humor Prize\, appeared in BULL: Men’s Fiction in autumn 2020. This spring she’ll be acting in her radio drama “Paper Thin” on KFJC 89.7fm. You can find her on Instagram at jen.burke.anderson (no end period).\n\nRyan Fox is the recipient of an MFA from the University of Virginia\, where he was Poetry Editor of Meridian\, and a JD from Fordham University School of Law\, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Fordham Intellectual Property\, Media & Entertainment Law Journal. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker\, Iowa Review\, New Ohio Review\, Caketrain\, New Orleans Review\, Prelude and others. A winner of the 2016 Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Contest and the recipient of a residency from the Yaddo Corporation\, he lives in New York City\, where he practices copyright law.\n\nSarah V. Schweig is the author of Take Nothing with You (University of Iowa Press\, 2016). Her poetry and criticism has appeared in BOMB\, Boston Review\, Granta\, Iowa Review\, The Literary Review\, Public Seminar\, Tin House\, and elsewhere. She lives and works in New York City\, where she also studies philosophy at The New School for Social Research.\n\nMolly Spencer is a poet\, critic\, and editor. Her debut collection\, If the House (2019)\, won the Brittingham Prize judged by Carl Phillips. A second collection\, Hinge (2020) won the Crab Orchard Open Competition judged by Allison Joseph. Molly’s poetry has appeared in Blackbird\, FIELD\, New England Review\, Ploughshares\, and Prairie Schooner. Her critical writing has appeared at Colorado Review\, The Georgia Review\, Kenyon Review\, The Writer’s Chronicle\, and The Rumpus\, where she is a senior poetry editor. She teaches at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.\n\n____\n\nHi there\,\nPeter Kline is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.\nTopic: Bazaar Writers Salon\nTime: Mar 7\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nJoin from PC\, Mac\, Linux\, iOS or Android: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/95846669502…\nPassword: 198502\nOr iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +18333021536\,\,95846669502# or +16507249799\,\,95846669502#\nOr Telephone:\nDial: +1 650 724 9799 (US\, Canada\, Caribbean Toll) or +1 833 302 1536 (US\, Canada\, Caribbean Toll Free)\nMeeting ID: 958 4666 9502\nPassword: 198502\nInternational numbers available: https://stanford.zoom.us/u/abODiiFllC\nMeeting ID: 958 4666 9502\nPassword: 198502\nSIP: 95846669502@zoomcrc.com\nPassword: 198502
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