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Workshop with CA Conrad in Toronto on June 22, 2013

Internationally renowned poet and workshop leader CA Conrad offers a three-hour workshop in Toronto; spaces limited.

FLOWERS DREAMING THE ELEVATION ALLEGIANCE: A (Soma)tic Poetry Primer

This mechanistic world, as it becomes more and more efficient, resulting in ever increasing brutality, …

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Reading and Writing through the poetry of Lorine Niedecker

Reading and Writing through Lorine Niedecker’s Collected Poems:
a poetry workshop spanning 10 Sundays from May 12 to July 21, 2013
(Cyberspace and Toronto, ON)

In this workshop, we will study the work of Lorine Niedecker, engaging her Collected

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New Poetry Workshop Forming: Reading and Writing through Charles Olson’s Maximus Poems

Reading and Writing through Charles Olson’s Maximus Poems:
a poetry workshop spanning 16 Sundays from January 6 to May 5, 2013
(Toronto, ON or Cyberspace)

In this workshop, we will study the work of Charles Olson, engaging his epic …

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Workshop Forming: Reading and Writing through Alice Notley’s Grave of Light

Reading and Writing through Alice Notley’s Grave of Light:
a poetry workshop spanning 14 Sundays from September 9 to December 9 (Toronto, ON or Cyberspace)

General Description:

In this workshop, we will study the work of Alice Notley, engaging …

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Reading and Writing through Emily Dickinson & Gertrude Stein

Reading and Writing through Emily Dickinson & Gertrude Stein:
a poetry workshop spanning 8 Sundays from June 3 to July 22
(Toronto, ON or Cyberspace)


General Description:

In this workshop, we will study a selection of poems by Emily Dickinson …

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Reading and Writing Through Robert Creeley

New Writing Workshop Forming: 17 Sundays
January 15 to May 6


Reading and Writing through the collected poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975

for Virtual and in-Toronto Participants

Meeting time: 4 PM to 6 PM

We will be studying Robert Creeley’s …

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New Writing Workshop Forming on Joanne Kyger

Reading and Writing through Joanne Kyger’s As Ever: Selected Poems

New Writing Workshop Forming: 10 Sundays from October 16 to December 18

for Virtual and in-Toronto Participants

Meeting in real-time: 4 PM to 6 PM

Spanning ten Sundays, we will …

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Fall 2011 Workshop from Toronto, also pickling

Landed here in Toronto, ON (Greektown/the Danforth), mostly unpacked and procrastinating the further unpacking of the kitchen with dreams of lacto-fermenting banana peppers from the large vegetable garden we assumed in our new place as well as considering the poet …

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Check out Wingbeats: Exercises and Practice in Poetry

New anthology from Dos Gatos Press, Wingbeats gathers sixty-one poetry writing exercises by fifty-eight teaching poets. Excellent textbook for writers and teachers of poetry.…

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Ted Berrigan Sonnets Class Begins

The last workshop I’ll teach in Austin, TX begins tomorrow, Sunday, June 5: we will be studying and  writing through Ted Berrigan’s Sonnets. It’s a big class, but am still accepting both local and virtual students. Contact me here to …

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