Autumn 2005 Workshops at Writers & Books

Reading Seminars

Women Writing Their Own Lives

• FA6-R42
• Six Tuesdays, October 11 through November 15, 7-9 pm
• $113 W&B members / $119 general public
• Instructor: Karen vanMeenen

In this reading seminar, students will explore the personal, first-person writings of women throughout the ages. Participants will be exposed to a range of forms and styles, from the work of the ancient poetess Sappho to pioneer women’s diaries, to the journals of Anaïs Nin and the popular women’s memoirs of today. We will follow a chronological path to discuss the history of the form as well as the biographical, cultural and societal influences surrounding each selection. A packet of readings and a bibliography will be provided before the first class (cost included in the course price). Men and women welcome!

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Poetry Reading for Poets

• FA6-R41
• Four Tuesdays, November 1 through 22, 7-9 pm
• $75 W&B members / $79 general public
• Instructor: Donna Marbach

How do the best poets use the elements of craft in their works? Why does Emily Dickinson capitalize some of her words? What is e.e. cummings point in playing with punctuation? How does Robert Frost use rhyme so subtly and musically? Good poets are readers as well as writers of poetry. In this seminar, participants will read major and minor poets whose work has had great influence. Everyone should purchase (or obtain from the library) a copy of Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems as the key text. The instructor will also provide other material for use in class. In addition to closely reading and discussing poetry, the instructor may also use DVD sound and/or video records of poets reading their own works. (Register for The Elements of Craft for Poets at the same time and receive a 10% discount on each class.)

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