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Please register for workshops 1-2 weeks in advance.
Using En Plein Air Experiences to Build Inner Landscapes with Marsha McDonald Sunday, March 4, 10am-1pm $25 / $20 members (includes ticket to Robert Grenier reading at 2pm) |
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Reanimating Modernism: Revisiting and Making New the Work of the Moderns with Michael Heller Saturday, March 10, 12pm-3pm $25 / $20 members |
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The Not-Travel Poem: Journaling toward the Civic Poem from Everyday Life with Margaret Rozga Saturday, March 17, 12pm-2pm $25 / $20 members |
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Poetry Workshop in Spanish with Xánath Caraza Saturday, March 31, 12pm-3pm $10 / $8 members |
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Using En Plein Air Experiences to Build Inner Landscapes with Marsha McDonald Sunday, March 4, 10am-1pm $25 / $20 members (includes ticket to Robert Grenier reading at 2pm) Angled totality refers to Song painter Guo Xi's idea that painting allows one to create and share, through introspection, an experienced landscape from multiple perspectives. This workshop will teach participants to use their own photos and other impressions (numerical, tactile, aural, linguistic) to paint an image of a Milwaukee river/and or surrounding urban landscape. We will use photos, written poems and descriptions, and even ideas about numbers (sacred, serial, and favorite) and other mnemonic systems to paint inner-illustrations of the Milwaukee scene. We will also provide students with both a panel (suitable for potential hanging) on which to paint their finalized idea as well as paper/paints/ink/pencil to be used toward building their ideas into images. |
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Revisiting and Making New the Work of the Moderns with Michael Heller Saturday, March 10, 12pm-3pm $25 / $20 members 
Maybe you just can't shake the idea that artistic activity is superior to, or at least coequal with its rivals—science, economics, politics—in creating our world. Maybe you find yourself stuck on the sense that the poet's business is to shape the poetic instrument so that it can confront the forces at work in our time. Maybe you're a Modernist without knowing it.In this workshop, Michael Heller will expound upon Modernist Poetry from its origins through Ezra Pound. Whether or not you have the slightest idea of what an ideogram is, or that it was William Carlos Williams who proclaimed the poem as "a machine made of words," this workshop will invite you anew into the world and words of Modernism. While giving us a sense of how modern poetry came to look and sound as it does through a general survey of some major modern poets, Heller will work in several simple writing exercises to give attendees an experiential feel of what was being attempted. Readers and writers, "serious" or curious, are warmly welcomed to this Woodland Pattern workshop. |
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Journaling toward the Civic Poem from Everyday Life with Margaret Rozga Saturday, March 17, 12pm-2pm $25 / $20 members 
You don't have to be in Iraq or have a war connection to have things to say about what is going on in the world.In this workshop, we'll look at some of the poems in Though I Haven't Been to Baghdad and discuss the techniques of close observation, association, reflection, and word play that helped shape these poems. We will also address similar work by other poets. Then we'll engage in guided exercises that use these techniques to generate images, phrases, lines, and even drafts of new poems. A photo of a group of family or friends can aid memory in one of these exercises, so if you have one you'd like to bring along, feel free to do so. We will also provide newspaper clippings to trigger memory and reflective response. |
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with Xánath Caraza Saturday, March 31, 12pm-3pm $10 / $8 members 
In this poetry workshop, we will examine and discuss selected works of three female Latin American poets: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Alfonsina Storni, and Carmen Boullosa. Additionally, we will utilize creative writing techniques to write our own poems, such as stream of consciousness, writing with the senses, and techniques which help us broaden our vocabulary in Spanish. We will end the session with an informal poetry reading where we will share what we have created. Taller de poesía en español con Xánath Caraza En este taller de poesía examinaremos y discutiremos trabajos seleccionados de tres poetas latinoamericanas importantes: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Alfonsina Storni y Carmen Boullosa. Además, usaremos técnicas de creación literaria para escribir nuestros propios poemas, tales como el monólogo interior o flujo de ideas, escribir con los sentidos y técnicas para incrementar nuestro vocabulario en español. Finalizaremos la sesión con una lectura informal de poesía donde compartiremos lo que hayamos creado. Xánath Caraza's full-length book of poetry Conjuro is forthcoming from Mammoth Press, and her chapbook Mujer from Thorny Locust Press in 2012. Writing primarily in Spanish and translating her work into English, she has also published original poems, stories, and essays in a range of publications, including Cuentos del Centro: Stories from the Latino Heartland, Primera Página: Poetry from the Latino Heartland, Más allá de las fronteras, La Bloga, Pegaso, Latino Poetry Review, and El Cid, among others. Winner of the 2003 Ediciones Nuevo Espacio international short story contest in Spanish and a 2008 finalist for the first international John Barry Award, Xánath is also an advisory circle member of the Con Tinta literary organization and a former board member of the Latino Writers' Collective in Kansas City, Missouri. |
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