TEN WEEKS/TEN LEAPS A 10-Week Poetry Workshop
Need some inspiration for that next poem? Want to find some fresh ideas, movement and life in you r work? Check out the “Ten Weeks/Ten Leaps” 10-week poetry workshop being conducted by our very own Megan Grumbling through the Maine Publishers and Writers Alliance.
Click here to register and find out more info.
From the Maine Publishers and Writers Alliance website:
Instructor: Megan Grumbling
Date & Time: Mondays, September 17 to December 3 | 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Location: USM’s Glickman Library, Portland
Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Maximum Attendees: 12
Fee: MWPA Member $450 | Nonmember $600
Registration Closes: September 12
Writers can thrive from chances to leap—to vault their practice into energizing new modes for both the creation and the revision of poems. In this ten-week master class, poets will explore a range of exercises, readings, and strategies to spur the generation of new work, and to help them find fresh movement and surprise in drafted poems.
The workshop will include exercises done both in class and at home, all meant to stimulate participants’ imagination and sense of what is possible in a poem. Conversations during class will include strategies to enrich writers’ tools for deep and vivifying revision. Over the ten weeks, participants will be encouraged to generate ten new poems, and will have the opportunity to both offer feedback and receive it from fellow poets.
+ Each week’s session will include a warm-up exercise, the workshopping of half the class’s poems, and discussion of a selection of poems and elements of form/craft. Discussions will cover a range of topics, such as image, voice, form, music, meter, and lineation. Writing exercises may include experiments with such modes and devices as poetic portraiture, visual art and music, documentary artifacts, elegy and eulogy, the “political” or social commentary poem, and forms for dialoguing with other authors or figures.
+ Participants will read and discuss poems by a range of poets including Martha Collins, Tyehimba Jess, Seamus Heaney, Donald Junkins, C.D. Wright, and others.
+ SUBMIT After registering, participants are asked to submit a manuscript (one poem) by no later than 9:00 AM on September 7. Please note that this poem will be the first of five poems you will submit for feedback from the class and instructor. Please email the manuscript to perry@mainewriters.org with the subject line: “GRUMBLING WORKSHOP MSS.” *Word docs (ideally) or PDFs only, please.
DATES The workshop will meet every Monday between September 17 and December 1, except October 8 and November 12, unless unforeseen scheduling issues should arise.
PAYMENTS MWPA members may pay for this workshop in one payment, or may pay in three installments of $150, due at registration and the 17th of each month (October, November). *PLEASE NOTE If you have selected to pay for this multi-week workshop on the installment option, once registration for the workshop has closed, you are responsible for paying all of the remaining installments. If you should, for any reason, leave the workshop after registration has closed, you are still responsible for paying all of the remaining installments.
CEU The MWPA is proud to offer Continuing Education Units (CEU) for this workshop. The CEU is a nationally recognized method of quantifying the time spent in the classroom during non-credit learning. Ten hours of instruction equal one (1) CEU. (*Please note that by definition, CEUs are non-credit continuing education and therefore not transferrable as academic credit.)
Millay Arts & Poetry Festival
Join us this weekend at the Millay Arts & Festival in Rockland. Steve will be one of the featured poets reading. The program takes place in the museum library starting at 11 am and concluding at 5 pm. A reception with the poets follows at Harbor Square Gallery at 5:30. Both readings and reception are free and open to all. Winners of the Rockland Library Poetry Contest will open the program.
From the Millay Festival website:
“The Millay Arts & Poetry Festival announces plans for a one-day celebration of Maine Poets, featuring more than a dozen established and emerging Maine poets in the Farnsworth Art Museum library, Saturday September 8, 2018.
The program takes place in the museum library starting at 11 am and concluding at 5 pm. A reception with the poets follows at Harbor Square Gallery at 5:30. Both readings and reception are free and open to all. Winners of the Rockland Library Poetry Contest will open the program.
Poets reading from their work include Maine Poet Laureate Stuart Kestenbaum, Former Maine Poet Laureate Betsy Sholl, Rockland Poet Laureate Mary Jane Martin, and Belfast Poet Laureate Tom Moore. Also, Kristen Lindquist, Julia Bouwsma, David Morrison, David Paffhausen, Karin Spitfire, Elizabeth Garber, Mikhu Paul, Carol Dana, Joanna Hynd, Steve Luttrell, and Maine Poetry Out Loud winner Alan Monga. Musical interlude will be performed by composer and musician Malcolm Brooks.
An Open House at the Millay birthplace at 198-200 Broadway in Rockland takes place the same day from 10 am – 4 pm. The public is invited to see progress to date of the restoration of the literary landmark. The final and third stage of the building fundraising campaign is under way.
Millay House Rockland is a non-profit organization that champions poets and the literary arts. It celebrates the legacy of American Poet Edna St. Vincent born in Rockland, Maine on February 22, 1892. She grew up in Camden Maine and went on to win the Pulitzer Poetry Prize in 1923. Central to the mission is rejuvenating her birthplace — a duplex in the heart of Rockland’s historical district. Join us in the project of preserving history and promoting poetry in Maine.”
You can find more info on their website: https://millayhouserockland.org/millay-arts-poetry-festival/
Chuck Feil and Steve Luttrell to Exhibit at SugarWood – ‘Moods and Reflections on Water’
Chuck Feil, (photographer published in our 2009 Winter Issue of the Café Review) is having a show titled, ‘Moods and Reflections on Water’ opening September 7 @4pm-7pm at SugarWood Gallery, 248 Broadway, Farmington, Maine. In this show he has incorporated the poetry of his friend and neighbor (and our editor) Steve Luttrell. Below is the complete press release for the event. Hope to see you at the opening!
For immediate release…
Chuck Feil and Steve Luttrell to Exhibit at SugarWood – ‘Moods and Reflections on Water’
Farmington: Photographer Chuck Feil and Poet Steve Luttrell will be featured artists during September at Su
garWood Gallery. Chuck Feil is known for his Maine aerial photography coffee table books: Maine A View From Above, Lighthouses From Aloft, Maine Guess Where From the Air, and Kittery to Calais The Maine Coast From Above. In this exhibit he has taken a different view point…one from the water. In his vintage 1960 Chris Craft he has cruised Lovejoy Pond, in Wayne, Maine photographing the many moods and reflections of this magical place he feels privileged to call his soulful home. In this show he has incorporated the poetry of his friend and neighbor Steve Luttrel.
Steve Luttrell is an internationally recognized Poet and Publisher. He is the founding editor of The Café Review, an award winning art and poetry journal, published in Portland, Maine since 1989. He is a past Poet Laureate for the city of Portland, Maine and is the author of five published collections of poetry including his latest, Plumb Line, published by North Atlantic Books (Berkeley, Ca.) in 2015.
An Open House Reception will be held Friday, September 7 from 4 to 7 PM. The public is invited and refreshments will be provided. Their work will be on display throughout the month of September for the public to view and purchase.
SugarWood Gallery is located at 248 Broadway in Farmington and is open Monday thru Friday 10 AM to 5:30 PM, and Saturday and Sunday 10 AM to 4 PM.
To see more of Chuck’s work go tohttp://www.sugarwoodgallery.
com/store/manufacturer/chuck- feil
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