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WORKSHOP WITH RENOWNED POET/TEACHER MARVIN BELL

 

POETIC VOICES: PULL THE RUG OUT FROM UNDER

CONVENTIONAL THINKING

Saturday February 9, 2008 12:00-5:30 PM

"Poetic Voices" with Marvin Bell. What makes for a strong poetic voice? A
personal voice? A distinctive voice? Doth it matter? If so, why and how?
Please bring to the morning session 25 copies of a contemporary poem that
has, to your mind, a distinctive voice--loud or quiet. For the afternoon
session, bring 25 copies of one of your own poems. Please do not bring a
poem that has been used in a workshop previously and, of course, save the
epic. If torn between a poem interestingly written and a poem with a big
subject, choose the former. There is no one way to write and no right way to
write. Let's see if we can pull the rug out from under conventional thinking
and have some fun along the way. *Please buy this book: Mars Being
Red--paperback only from Copper Canyon Press. on Amazon  *

 

He is the author several books of poetry, most recently Mars Being Red
(Copper Canyon Press, 2007); Rampant (2004); Nightworks: Poems, 1962-2000
(2000); Ardor: The Book of the Dead Man, Volume 2 (1997); A Marvin Bell
Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose (1994); The Book of the Dead Man (1994);
Iris of Creation (1990); New and Selected Poems (1987); Stars Which See,
Stars Which Do Not See (1977), which was a finalist for the National Book
Award; A Probable Volume of Dreams (1969), which was a Lamont Poetry
Selection of the Academy of American Poets; and Things We Dreamt We Died For
(1966). He has also published Old Snow Just Melting: Essays and Interviews,
as well as Segues: A Correspondence in Poetry with
<http://www.poets.org/wstaf> William Stafford (both in 1983).His honors
include the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature,
Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and Senior
Fulbright appointments to Yugoslavia and Australia. He was on the staff of
the The University of Iowa's Writers Workshop for more than thirty years,
where he was the Flannery O'Connor Professor of Letters. He also served as a
visiting lecturer at Oregon State University, Goddard College, the
University of Hawaii, the University of Washington, and elsewhere. Beginning
in 2000, Bell served two terms as the state of Iowa's first Poet Laureate.
Marvin Bell has been called "an insider who thinks like an outsider," and
his writing has been called "ambitious without pretension." 

$85  Limit 16  Attendees get into the reading (at 7:30)  for Free!

12:00-5:30 PM/ Audits $45  Lunch & Afternoon goodies included

The Ruskin Art Club 800 S Plymouth Blvd Los Angeles CA 90005

1 block s of Wilshire/3blocks w of Crenshaw

310-936-7484 Elena Karina Byrne, Literary Programs Director

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Checks made payable to the Ruskin Art Club

Po Box 3761   Palos Verdes Peninsula CA 90274

They must be received 1 week prior to the workshop, unless otherwise
arranged.

Deposits of $35  non-refunable unless we cancel the workshop

Questions: Elena Karina Byrne  Ekduende at cox.net

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