Workshops

January & April 2012 Denver - Jan. 26

In 2012, Rosanne Sterne will be teaching two six-week Poetry Workshops through the Community Education department at Arapahoe Community College. The winter term workshop will begin January 26, 2012 and the spring term workshop will begin on April 12, 2012. Go to http://www.arapahoe.edu/community-education for further details.

Ohio - June 16

Jake York will be serving as a faculty member at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, June 16-23, 2012. Other teacher-writers include David Baker, Carl Phillips, Rebecca McClanahan, Dinty W. Moore, Lee K. Abbott, Geeta Kothari, Nancy Zafris, and David Lynn. “It is, indeed, a ‘workshop,’" York writes, “organized in small groups (approximately 10 students) that produce new work each day. Each participant gets to read his or her work to the community, so there are many chances for feedback.”
Here’s the link (open in January) on that workshop for those interested.
http://www.kenyonreview.org/workshops/writers/

Loveland - Jan. 28

Veronica Patterson will be teaching two single-afternoon workshops in connection with the Visions of the Prairies exhibit at the Loveland Museum and Gallery. The first workshop is Saturday, January 28, 1-3 p.m. at the Loveland Museum & Gallery. The second, which will be similar, is Saturday, March 10, 1-3 p.m., at the Loveland Public Library. Each costs $30; the Loveland Museum is the place to register for either one, 962-2410. The workshops will focus on place (in prose and poetry), weaving in elements of ekphrastic writing--in particular, launching words from images of place in art.

Loveland - Mar. 04

“Mantling and Dismantling the Narrative in Poetry and Prose,” a workshop with Green Fuse’s Katherine West will be held on March 4, 11, 18, and 25 from 1:30-3:30 p.m. at the Loveland Wellness Collective, 133 E 4th St. in downtown Loveland.

“How do we maintain the compelling power of story while keeping our writing fresh and unpredictable? Musicians have long used tools such as inversions and accidentals to shake their compositions into surprising forms, and there’s no reason writers cannot do the same. In this workshop, prose writers and poets will—write! A lot. Totally unstructured free-writes will be used as lode of golden (mantled or storied) words, words which can be mined and then dismantled as many times as is necessary to find the pure ore without ever losing the narrative sparkle.”

Requested donations: $15 a class for Green Fuse Members, $20 for nonmembers; $10 a class for participants who sign up for the entire four weeks.

Loveland - April 15

“Writing from your Dreams,” a workshop with Jennifer Phelps, will be held April 15 from 1:30-3:30 p.m. at the Loveland Wellness Collective, 133 E 4th St. in downtown Loveland. Phelps, who studied at the Colorado Jung Institute for three years and has worked with her dreams for the past twenty, is a professional editor and facilitates writing and dream workshops in Denver, Boulder and Colorado Springs.

Requested donations: $25 for Green Fuse Members and $35 for nonmembers.