About Georgia Popoff Georgia A. Popoff is a writer, editor, arts-in-education specialist, and Workshops Coordinator for the YMCA of Central NY’s Downtown Writers Center, where she teaches poetry and creative nonfiction. Her poetry includes Coaxing Nectar from Longing (Hale Mary Press, 1997), The Doom Weaver (Main Street Rag Publishers, 2008), and Psalter: The Agnostic’s Book of Common Curiosities (Tiger Bark Press, 2015). Her fourth collection of poetry, Psychometry, was released in late 2019 by Tiger Bark Press, and was a finalist for Utica College’s Eugene Nassar Poetry Prize and the CNY Book Award for Poetry. Georgia was recently named Poet Laureate of Onondaga County for a 2-year term of service. She coauthored, with Quraysh Ali Lansana, Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry, Literacy, & Social Justice in Classroom & Community (Teachers & Writers Collaborative, 2011), which was a 2012 NAACP Image Award finalist. In 2017, The Whiskey of Our Discontent: Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience & Change Agent (co-edited with Lansana; Haymarket Books 2017), was a finalist for the Chicago Review of Books Award in Nonfiction. Georgia received the National League of American Pen Women’s 2021 Vinnie Reams Award in Letters for an excerpt from her book-in-progress, Living with Haints, and has recently been appointed editor for the University of Michigan Press book series on contemporary poets, Under Discussion. For more information and for links to purchase books, visit www.georgiapopoff.com. You can also follow her Facebook, and on Instagram and Twitter: @gappoet. In stock About Georgia Popoff Georgia A. Popoff is a writer, editor, arts-in-education specialist, and Workshops Coordinator for the YMCA of Central NY’s Downtown Writers Center, where she teaches poetry and creative nonfiction. Her poetry includes Coaxing Nectar from Longing (Hale Mary Press, 1997), The Doom Weaver (Main Street Rag Publishers, 2008), and Psalter: The Agnostic’s Book of Common Curiosities (Tiger Bark Press, 2015). Her fourth collection of poetry, Psychometry, was released in late 2019 by Tiger Bark Press, and was a finalist for Utica College’s Eugene Nassar Poetry Prize and the CNY Book Award for Poetry. Georgia was recently named Poet Laureate of Onondaga County for a 2-year term of service. She coauthored, with Quraysh Ali Lansana, Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry, Literacy, & Social Justice in Classroom & Community (Teachers & Writers Collaborative, 2011), which was a 2012 NAACP Image Award finalist. In 2017, The Whiskey of Our Discontent: Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience & Change Agent (co-edited with Lansana; Haymarket Books 2017), was a finalist for the Chicago Review of Books Award in Nonfiction. Georgia received the National League of American Pen Women’s 2021 Vinnie Reams Award in Letters for an excerpt from her book-in-progress, Living with Haints, and has recently been appointed editor for the University of Michigan Press book series on contemporary poets, Under Discussion. For more information and for links to purchase books, visit www.georgiapopoff.com. You can also follow her Facebook, and on Instagram and Twitter: @gappoet. In stock In stock $300.00 There are no reviews yet. MARCH 13 – May 15 All ages, Mondays, 7 – 9 PM, 10-week session Poetry enables us to “see things”: to see what is and what is not, in the domains of the senses and imagination. We develop our practice of writing by drawing upon both. Workshop participants send one or two new poems each week for the group to consider thoughtfully and respectfully with comments that encourage revision. In theory and practice, the workshop serves as an articulate, responsive audience for the poet, who learns from the members’ responses to the poem. We also write in-session with various prompts and group activities. Since all artists benefit by knowing the history and achievements of their art, we read poets from many time periods and cultures. We read poets with a range of subjects and forms as models for our own practice. We exchange ideas about publishing opportunities in online and print environments. Our agenda can be adjusted depending on the experience and preferences of the poets. While we met in-person for the first two 10-week sessions, we have met since March 2020 online. We also sponsor “Tiny Desk Readings,” which features poets outside the workshop whom we invite to read for 20 minutes at the beginning of a session. The workshop is conducted by Robert Bensen. Robert Bensen has directed the Seeing Things poetry workshop since 2019. His poetry has been published in six collections, including Before (Five Oaks Press) and Orenoque, Wetumka (Bright Hill Press). What Lightning Spoke: New and Selected Poems is forthcoming from Bright Hill. Along with non-fiction and literary essays, his poetry has appeared in AGNI, Akwe:kon, Antioch Review, Berfrois, Callaloo, The Caribbean Writer, Jamaica Journal, La presa, Native Realities, The Paris Review, Partisan Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Wales, River Styx, Yankee Magazine, and elsewhere. He has edited anthologies of Native American and Caribbean literature and authored American Indian and Aboriginal Canadian Childhood Studies (Oxford University Press). His writing won a poetry fellowship from the NEA, research fellowships from the NEH and the Newberry Library, a shared Eric Hoffer Award, poetry awards from Harvard University, the New York State Council on the Arts, Illinois Arts Council, the Robert Penn Warren Award. His first book was a finalist for the Walt Whitman Award (Academy of American Poets) and the Emily Dickinson Prize (Poetry Foundation). He is Professor Emeritus at Hartwick College, where he directed the writing programs for 39 years. He also taught at the University of Illinois, Parkland College (Champaign, Illinois) and SUNY Oneonta. He is the founding director of Woodland Arts Editions (Oneonta NY). Bright Hill Tiny Desk Series to be published in 2022 featuring national poets. This virtual workshop runs every Monday for 10 sessions from 7 – 9 PM SPRING SESSION: March 13 – May 15 Fee: $3502023 Adult Workshop Offerings
CELEBRATING 31 YEARS
“LET’S DIG IN!”
AN INTENSIVE POETRY REVISIONIST WORKSHOP TAUGHT BY POET LAUREATE GEORGIA POPOFF
MAY 29 – JULY 18, 2023
All ages, Mondays, 7 – 9 PM, 8-week session
This virtual workshop runs every Monday for 8 sessions from 7 – 9 PM
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“Let’s Dig In!”- Poetry Revisionist Workshop on Zoom
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A PERSONA WRITING WORKSHOP TAUGHT BY POET LAUREATE GEORGIA POPOFF
JULY 24 – AUGUST 28, 2023
All ages, Mondays, 7 – 9 PM, 6-week session
This virtual workshop runs every Monday for 6 sessions from 7 – 9 PM
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July 24 – August 28, 2023
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