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SEPTEMBER

September 11, 2008

8 PM

Poetry Reading, with Paula Bohince

Single Voice Reading Series

Tillitson Room

Allegheny College, Meadville, PA

contact: Christopher Bakken

September 11, 2008
“Lifting Belly High: Women’s Poetry Since 1900”
Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Plenary Panel: “Avant-garde, Formalism and Feminism”
(with Arielle Greenberg, Stacy Hubbard, Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Lisa Samuels)
poetry reading
www.duq.edu/womenpoets.

September 12, 2008
“Lifting Belly High: Women’s Poetry Since 1900”
Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Lunchtime reading with Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge
www.duq.edu/womenpoets.

OCTOBER

Saturday, October 11, 2008

9:00 am-4:00 pm

All-Day Workshop with Annie Finch:

"Rhythms of Poetry"

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Rhythmic language is an ancient poetic path for uniting body and spirit, idea and intuition, humanity and nature. This workshop will teach poets to channel the power of poetic rhythm into your own poems, drawing on poets from Sappho to Thomas Hardy to Gwendolyn Brooks, but mostly on our own inner ears. Through games, improvisation, and simply listening inward, we will build a repertoire of patterns and learn to track our most fertile personal rhythms.

For the morning session, please bring at least one poem, song, or other rhythmic text whose rhythm has “stuck with you”—that you find impossible to forget (24 copies). For the afternoon session, bring one of your own poems in free verse(16 copies), and plenty of blank paper.

The Ruskin Art Club 800 S Plymouth Blvd Los Angeles CA 90005
1 block s of Wilshire/3blocks w of Crenshaw
310-936-7484 Elena Karina Byrne, Literary Programs Director
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$95 Full Day (Breakfast & Lunch included)
$45 Audit (Breakfast & Morning session till 12:30 only)

Checks made payable to the Ruskin Art Club
Send to:
Po Box 3761 Palos Verdes Peninsula CA 90274
**They must be received, paid in full 1 week prior to the workshop,
unless otherwise arranged.
Deposits of $35 non-refundable unless we cancel the workshop
Full Pay-Non-refundable if you cancel within two days of the workshop, because
we can’t replace your spot, thank you.
Questions/Contact: Elena Karina Byrne Ekduende@cox.net

October 12, 2008

Sunday, 2:00 PM
(with Maurya Simon)
Ruskin Art Club,
Los Angeles, CA
http://www.ruskinartclub.org/

October 18, 2008

Saturday, 7:00 PM
Stonecoast in the City
Grub Street

160 Boylston St.

Boston, MA
with Kazim Ali, Jeffrey Harrison, and other faculty, alums and students of the Stonecoast MFA program

October 23-26,, 2008
Fellows Meeting
Black Earth Institute, Wisconsin
http://www.blackearthinstitute.org/

NOVEMBER

November 7-9, 2008

November 8, 1:30 to 3:00 PM
Eco-Poets Speaking Up and Speaking Out

The Nature of Nature Poetry: Poetry's Place in the Environmental Debate

Maine Literary Festival

For This Earth: Visions in Literature
Camden Opera House

Camden, Maine

http://maineliteraryfestival.com/

FEBRUARY

February 11-14 , 2009

Panels on "Multiformalisms" and "The Poet as Oracle"