This June 1st, AllWriters' Workplace & Workshop Brings You:
The Shape a Poem Makes: Shapeshifting
Have you noticed that you are drawn visually to certain poems because they are interesting or appealing on the page? Have you marveled at poems that not only invite you visually to read them, but then deliver the goods with satisfying and sometimes multi-layered strategies? Have you longed to accomplish more in your poetry?
Let’s examine what happens when greater care is given to sculpting the lines and shape of a poem. Some poems sparkle with originality. Some sing with musicality and lines that breathe like arias. Others have a message that moves us deeply. The shape a poem makes invites us to read it. We will examine how the use of stanzas, line breaks, indentations, and formal shaping can enhance the meaning and enjoyment of a poem.
Let’s experiment with shape and form and dare to stray off the beaten path of free verse. Is it possible to open up poems and let them do things we have not imagined or allowed them to do before by shaping them in original ways? We will look at a few poems that accomplish these things and discuss strategies used.
Participants will write a new poem with our discussion in mind, or revise a poem in need of invigoration, trying perhaps a new formal strategy, or adding complexity to the poem. in other ways. We will share in a supportive way with the group.
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CHRISTINE SWANBERG has published hundreds of poems journals such The Beloit Poetry Journal, The Louisville Review, and Spoon River Quarterly, and the June Cotner anthologies: Earth Blessings, Garden Blessings, Gratitude Prayers, and Back To Joy. Christine’s collections include Tonight On This Late Road (Erie St, 1984), Invisible String (Erie St., 1989), Slow Miracle (Lake Shore, 1990), Bread Upon The Waters (Windfall Prophets, UW), The Tenderness Of Memory (Plainview, 1995), The Red Lacquer Room (Chiron, 2000), and Who Walks Among The Trees With Charity (Wind, 2005), and The Alleluia Tree (Puddin’head Press, 2012). Her newest book, Wild Fruition: Sonnets, Spells, And Other Incantations, is out from Puddin’head Press. A community poet interviewed by Poets Market 2008, she has won many poetry awards and Arts Council grants as well as recognition such as The Mayor’s Award for Community Impact, the YWCA Award for the Arts, and the Womanspirit Award and various Pushcart nominations and poetry prizes. Gardening, horses, traveling, music, animals, nature, and various kinds of love are passions that inform her work. She is a retired English teacher and Clearing instructor, who now gives readings and workshops around the country.
At AllWriters’, we strive to bring you the best! Several times a year, we offer a Celebrity Saturday, which brings in a better-known, better-published author to work with you for one intensive day. Celebrity Saturday authors have included Jane Hamilton, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Michael Perry, A. Manette Ansay, Marilyn Taylor, Ellen Kort, and many, many more!
Celebrity Saturdays are a great chance to broaden your knowledge of what it takes to be successful and to learn from writers who are already knee deep in an author’s life. Christine Swanberg’s workshop will be held on Saturday, June 1st, 2019. This event runs from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and costs just $95, which includes a lunch catered by Waukesha’s own Café de Art!
AllWriters’ Workplace and Workshop offers on-site and online writing courses in all genres and abilities of creative writing, as well as coaching, editing, and marketing services. A schedule of classes, with online registration, is available at www.allwritersworkshop.com or by calling (262) 446-0284. AllWriters’ is located at 234 Brook Street, Unit 2, in historic downtown Waukesha, as featured in Milwaukee’s Journal Sentinel.
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