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JUNE 6 – JULY 25 – POETRY WORKSHOP – ALL AGES
AFTER THE BEGINNING: WHAT’S NEXT?
Taught by Georgia Popoff
Participants in this 8-week session will examine their work through a series of lenses, each leading to further development and revision. As each element of literary devices and considerations is introduced, poems will transform and reveal. In the spirit of discovery and collaborative growth, there will be an opportunity to workshop some of the work as a “best test.” We will also examine poets whose work exemplify any of the various lenses we will use to answer three basic questions: What? Then What? and So What? as we employ poetic craft to bring a poem to its fullest potential. For even the seasoned poet, these considerations strengthen the keen eye needed in effective revision.
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FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 5-8 pm
EKPHRASIS CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP
Taught by Mark Blickley
What is Ekphrasis creative writing? The word Ekphrasis translates to “description” in Greek and ekphrastic writing is a form of creative writing describing a work of art or visual image.
By imaginatively playing with a visual work of art, the writer can expand its meaning—not in terms of enlarging the original work, but in terms of offering more possibilities. By bringing two imaginations into conversation with one another—that of the visual artist and that of the writer—something new is born.
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September 23, 24 & 25
iPHONE PHOTOGRAPHY & EKPHRASTIC POETRY WORKSHOP
LED BY MASTER TEACHING ARTIST NICK KELSH & LYNNE KEMEN (Poet and Writer)
At Bright Hill Literary Center – in person
94 Church Street, Treadwell, NY 13846
Registration Fee:
Early Bird Fee: $250 – Book between August 2 and August 23
Book after August 23 – Regular Fee: $297
Friday, September 23/ 5:30PM to 8:00PM
Reception, opening remarks, preparation for all-day Saturday workshop
Saturday, September 24/ 9:30AM to 4:00PM
Shoot, edit, write, group instructional. Curriculum will be reviewed Friday evening
Sunday , September 25/ Noon to 5:00 PM
One-on-ones scheduled with Nick/Lynne
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September 23, 24 & 25
iPHONE PHOTOGRAPHY & EKPHRASTIC POETRY WORKSHOP
LED BY MASTER TEACHING ARTIST NICK KELSH & LYNNE KEMEN (Poet and Writer)
At Bright Hill Literary Center – in person
94 Church Street, Treadwell, NY 13846
Registration Fee:
Early Bird Fee: $250 – Book between August 2 and August 23
Book after August 23 – Regular Fee: $297
Friday, September 23/ 5:30PM to 8:00PM
Reception, opening remarks, preparation for all-day Saturday workshop
Saturday, September 24/ 9:30AM to 4:00PM
Shoot, edit, write, group instructional. Curriculum will be reviewed Friday evening
Sunday , September 25/ Noon to 5:00 PM
One-on-ones scheduled with Nick/Lynne
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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: $350