What's the deal with this workshop? As I mentioned in the past, Bernard Rossi will be the lead instructor for this poetry workshop. He is an award winning poet and has a blog for poetry. I believe we all can learn a lot from his knowledge and experience. What we plan to do is post a picture on the New Author Workshop site with a few instructions and two e-mail addresses. The objective for this workshop is to write a poem with an aspect of that picture in mind. Once you have your poem on paper you will then e-mail it to either Bernard or I. Keep in mind that all poems will be posted on the workshop site for everyone to read. As the poems come in we will post them. That will allow everyone to compare the different styles, techniques and directions. We plan to post poems for about a week but this could be extended should a large amount of poems be submitted (and I hope there are). At the end of posting the poems Bernard will prepare a poem as well and we will take an in-depth look at the many aspects of poetry based on the submissions.
The photo will be posted shortly and we will begin taking your poems as soon as you are ready to e-mail them. The great thing about posting them and posting information based on those poems is that you can go back and them at your leisure and also refresh your memory about a particular poem.
But I don't write poetry! That's alright; I still recommend you participate because it will help with word usage, perspective, and style development. Also, you never know what you may learn about yourself.
As this is our first of many planned workshops I'm sure there will be some bumps in the road that will need some smoothing out. If at anytime you have a suggestion let me know. Who knows, the next workshop could be presented and conducted in a totally different way.
I look forward to reading and sharing the poems generated from the picture selected.
Do you like reading and/or writing poetry?
6 comments:
Good ideas! Look forward to reading them and maybe even subbing one or two of my shaggy ideas in there.
I like reading poetry when I need some quiet time. I don't write it, however; what I do is more accurately called purging, I'm afraid (just getting stuff out so that I can move on).
I'm a little scared to participate because I won't know what the heck I'm doing, for sure. But back a ways, I didn't know how to write a novel either, so what could it hurt?
Sounds interesting, indeed.
Cicily - Yes it should be a lot of fun. Sharing ideas and works of poetry about the picture is what this is all about so send them in and we can all have a good time.
Stephe - No need for fear. We are all here to learn together and help each other. You are right though, many times we learn the best lessons by jumping in and trying something new.
Great idea - thanks for hosting this.
Love both reading and writing it!
Angie - I hope you will join us as we would all enjoy some of your work.
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