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News this week:
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
2. Helen Ruggieri's new blog explores the myths behind Groundhog Day
3. Christina M. Rau's A Life of We presents
4. Rosemary Starace, Northern Light Daybook
5. This one-day workshop will pose the question what makes a successful political poem?
6. Being with Poets Series: Plath and Shakespeare led by: Jeanne Marie Beaumont and Baron Wormser
7. Seeking YOUR Voice: Six Classes, 7-9pm, alternate Tuesdays
8. Ellen Moody's blogs
(back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo
festival of women's poetry here: wompherence.proboards.com ).
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
www.bmorrison.com/blog/
- Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England, by Tom Wessels
2. Helen Ruggieri's new blog explores the myths behind Groundhog Day. What you never knew about that fluffy little rodent. Check www.HelenRuggieri.com for my new web page listing books and blogs
3. Christina M. Rau's A Life of We presents:
"Sabbaticalling: Weekly Roundup #4" alifeofwe.blogspot.com/2016/01/sabbaticalling-weekly-roundup-4.html
Also, find prompts and pictures on Yoga, Write, Tea, Repeat: christinamrau.tumblr.com
4. Rosemary Starace, Northern Light Daybook: A journal of happenings in the backyard and beyond, recorded in words and images. I'd love for people to subscribe by email. It's easy to do, right at the site.
Blog: northernlightdaybook.blogspot.com
Recent posts:
~ If you would write a letter to the moon
~ Strange land
~ Just so
~ Epiphany
~ Let nothing you dismay
~ The tiny many
~ A yellow flower's view
5. This one-day workshop will pose the question what makes a successful political poem? Participants will read examples of successful political poetry, as well as share their own work. This workshop will be followed by a free reading featuring instructor Terese Svoboda, open to the public.
11:00 AM-1:00 PM
2/7
Bethesda
Level: All Levels
www.writer.org/online-workshops?&nccsm=21&__nccspID=4849
6. Being with Poets Series: Plath and Shakespeare at The Writing House, 13 Loomis Street, Montpelier, VT, on April 16-17, 2016, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Led by: Jeanne Marie Beaumont and Baron Wormser
Description: Sylvia Plath was deeply attuned to the poetry of Shakespeare. His work offered her an emotional scope, a trove of verse techniques, a bottomless vocabulary, a stunning range of tones (both comic and tragic), the felt presence of classical themes, and an insistence on the primacy of drama. Accordingly, we will be closely examining some Plath poems through the Shakespearean lens to see how she seized upon his plays as an aid to creating poems that were brief yet powerful dramas. Any poet with ambition yearns to reach the phenomenal eloquence Shakespeare represents. Plath not only had that ambition, she worked deliberately and intuitively at making that eloquence her own.
Readings: Macbeth, The Tempest, Antony and Cleopatra, Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
"Ariel," "Full Fathom Five," "Daddy," "Death & Co.," "Lady Lazarus," "Elm," "Thalidomide," "Winter Trees," "The Applicant," "Fever 103" by Sylvia Plath
Cost: $325 (lunch on both days included)
Limited to six participants: first come, first served
Anyone wanting to register should contact Baron directly at baronwormser@gmail.com, or contact jeannembeaumont@nyc.rr.com for more information.
7. Seeking YOUR Voice: Six Classes, 7-9pm, alternate Tuesdays. Begins this Tuesday. Feb 2. If this is too short notice call us or email about joining in March --
SEEKING YOUR VOICE: Women Writing Poems & Beginning Memoir since 2009 at Barnard College Center for Research on Women
New Location:
117 The Studio School
West 95th Street
between Amsterdam & Columbus.
New York City: Upper West Side!
We have a wonderful supportive and very lively collaborative group. First half-hour of class, Explore the work of one or a group of contemporary or historic poets. Last semester was Angles of Ascent: Contemporary African-American Poetry and If not, Winter Anne Carson's translations of Sappho. Then we use a Marie Ponsot -inspired method to listen ,observe and support one another's work-in progress, not polished: What you want to work on.
For our first meeting please bring a poem or short-short prose piece by a contemporary or historic poet from Shakespeare to Sharon Olds, Dickinson to C.D. Wright. One poem or piece that inspires, provokes, puzzles, moves you and also bring 10 copies of your own work to read and work on in class.
As Charlotte Mandel taught: Every Poem is a Gift.
In fact I found the original "version' of this writing group right on Wompo when Charlotte put out a call for new members for her group Translating Silences, around 2005. When Charlotte retired, a colleague and I "inherited" the class, which I have now been teaching with many new members, as Seeking Your Voice, since 2009.
Try us, we praise, share and even get published! We are priced to please. $225 for Six Sessions from Feb 2 - April 19.
Please backchannel Patricia Brody: Brodypoet@gmail.com or call The Studio School Christine Bochar to register!
(p) 212-678-2416 x101
8. Ellen Moody's blogs
8.1. Sofonsiba and Lucia Anguissola (1535/6-1625, 1535/8-1565): somber, contemplative, self-aware portraits:
reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2016/01/30/sofonisba-and-lucia-anguissola-15356-1625-15368-1565-somber-contemplative-self-aware-portraits/
8.2. Audrie and Daisy: a film showing how young men get away with aggravated sexual assault:
misssylviadrake.livejournal.com/132616.html
8.3. Well it's been a quiet week in Downton Abbey, Sixth season: 3 &4:
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2016/01/28/well-itsbeena-quietweekindownton-abbey-sixth-season-3-4/
8.4. A comically anxious cat & big black bug who made personal remarks:
austenreveries.wordpress.com/2016/02/02/astoryofabigblackbugandcomicalcat/
News this week:
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
2. Helen Ruggieri's new blog explores the myths behind Groundhog Day
3. Christina M. Rau's A Life of We presents
4. Rosemary Starace, Northern Light Daybook
5. This one-day workshop will pose the question what makes a successful political poem?
6. Being with Poets Series: Plath and Shakespeare led by: Jeanne Marie Beaumont and Baron Wormser
7. Seeking YOUR Voice: Six Classes, 7-9pm, alternate Tuesdays
8. Ellen Moody's blogs
(back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo
festival of women's poetry here: wompherence.proboards.com ).
1. B. Morrison, Monday Morning Book Blog
www.bmorrison.com/blog/
- Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England, by Tom Wessels
2. Helen Ruggieri's new blog explores the myths behind Groundhog Day. What you never knew about that fluffy little rodent. Check www.HelenRuggieri.com for my new web page listing books and blogs
3. Christina M. Rau's A Life of We presents:
"Sabbaticalling: Weekly Roundup #4" alifeofwe.blogspot.com/2016/01/sabbaticalling-weekly-roundup-4.html
Also, find prompts and pictures on Yoga, Write, Tea, Repeat: christinamrau.tumblr.com
4. Rosemary Starace, Northern Light Daybook: A journal of happenings in the backyard and beyond, recorded in words and images. I'd love for people to subscribe by email. It's easy to do, right at the site.
Blog: northernlightdaybook.blogspot.com
Recent posts:
~ If you would write a letter to the moon
~ Strange land
~ Just so
~ Epiphany
~ Let nothing you dismay
~ The tiny many
~ A yellow flower's view
5. This one-day workshop will pose the question what makes a successful political poem? Participants will read examples of successful political poetry, as well as share their own work. This workshop will be followed by a free reading featuring instructor Terese Svoboda, open to the public.
11:00 AM-1:00 PM
2/7
Bethesda
Level: All Levels
www.writer.org/online-workshops?&nccsm=21&__nccspID=4849
6. Being with Poets Series: Plath and Shakespeare at The Writing House, 13 Loomis Street, Montpelier, VT, on April 16-17, 2016, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Led by: Jeanne Marie Beaumont and Baron Wormser
Description: Sylvia Plath was deeply attuned to the poetry of Shakespeare. His work offered her an emotional scope, a trove of verse techniques, a bottomless vocabulary, a stunning range of tones (both comic and tragic), the felt presence of classical themes, and an insistence on the primacy of drama. Accordingly, we will be closely examining some Plath poems through the Shakespearean lens to see how she seized upon his plays as an aid to creating poems that were brief yet powerful dramas. Any poet with ambition yearns to reach the phenomenal eloquence Shakespeare represents. Plath not only had that ambition, she worked deliberately and intuitively at making that eloquence her own.
Readings: Macbeth, The Tempest, Antony and Cleopatra, Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
"Ariel," "Full Fathom Five," "Daddy," "Death & Co.," "Lady Lazarus," "Elm," "Thalidomide," "Winter Trees," "The Applicant," "Fever 103" by Sylvia Plath
Cost: $325 (lunch on both days included)
Limited to six participants: first come, first served
Anyone wanting to register should contact Baron directly at baronwormser@gmail.com, or contact jeannembeaumont@nyc.rr.com for more information.
7. Seeking YOUR Voice: Six Classes, 7-9pm, alternate Tuesdays. Begins this Tuesday. Feb 2. If this is too short notice call us or email about joining in March --
SEEKING YOUR VOICE: Women Writing Poems & Beginning Memoir since 2009 at Barnard College Center for Research on Women
New Location:
117 The Studio School
West 95th Street
between Amsterdam & Columbus.
New York City: Upper West Side!
We have a wonderful supportive and very lively collaborative group. First half-hour of class, Explore the work of one or a group of contemporary or historic poets. Last semester was Angles of Ascent: Contemporary African-American Poetry and If not, Winter Anne Carson's translations of Sappho. Then we use a Marie Ponsot -inspired method to listen ,observe and support one another's work-in progress, not polished: What you want to work on.
For our first meeting please bring a poem or short-short prose piece by a contemporary or historic poet from Shakespeare to Sharon Olds, Dickinson to C.D. Wright. One poem or piece that inspires, provokes, puzzles, moves you and also bring 10 copies of your own work to read and work on in class.
As Charlotte Mandel taught: Every Poem is a Gift.
In fact I found the original "version' of this writing group right on Wompo when Charlotte put out a call for new members for her group Translating Silences, around 2005. When Charlotte retired, a colleague and I "inherited" the class, which I have now been teaching with many new members, as Seeking Your Voice, since 2009.
Try us, we praise, share and even get published! We are priced to please. $225 for Six Sessions from Feb 2 - April 19.
Please backchannel Patricia Brody: Brodypoet@gmail.com or call The Studio School Christine Bochar to register!
(p) 212-678-2416 x101
8. Ellen Moody's blogs
8.1. Sofonsiba and Lucia Anguissola (1535/6-1625, 1535/8-1565): somber, contemplative, self-aware portraits:
reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2016/01/30/sofonisba-and-lucia-anguissola-15356-1625-15368-1565-somber-contemplative-self-aware-portraits/
8.2. Audrie and Daisy: a film showing how young men get away with aggravated sexual assault:
misssylviadrake.livejournal.com/132616.html
8.3. Well it's been a quiet week in Downton Abbey, Sixth season: 3 &4:
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2016/01/28/well-itsbeena-quietweekindownton-abbey-sixth-season-3-4/
8.4. A comically anxious cat & big black bug who made personal remarks:
austenreveries.wordpress.com/2016/02/02/astoryofabigblackbugandcomicalcat/