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PoetryLyric Yoga: A Generative Writing WorkshopF10-P01
Course Cancelled Beginning Poetry WorkshopF10-P02
Tiny PoemsF10-P03
From Poems to Manuscript--How-tos and WhereforesF10-P04
Poetry: Learning from the MastersF10-P05
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The Book ThievesHosted by Writers & Books Younger Staff Members Book Kick-off, A Divided Poet: Robert Frost, North of Boston, and the Drama of Disappearance, by David Sanders.Thursday, Feb. 2, 7 p.m. First Fridays / Wide Open MicHosted by Norm Davis Beyond Reading: Blood DriveSaturday February 4, 9 a.m. -1 p.m. Beyond Reading: FilmMonday, February 6, 7 p.m. “How Do I Love Thee?” Romantic Love Poems Through the AgesTuesday, February 7, 7 p.m. Afternoon TeaWed., Feb. 8, 4:30 - 6 p.m. The Bertrand Russell SocietyHosted by Phil Ebersol
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This workshop engages students in practices designed to help writers generate new material and break old patterns. We will begin class with a combination of exercises focused on breath and movement, and then proceed to writing exercises, reading aloud, and listening. While yoga is the basis of the movements we will use, no previous experience with yoga is necessary. However, those with chronic spine or other injuries should not participate in posture practices. Bring journals and pens. Wear comfortable clothes. Bring a yoga mat and a beach towel, and a cushion if you can, and a bag lunch—beverages will be served by Writers & Books. Also bring one or two poems by a poet whose work you love.
In this Poetry Workshop and Readshop students will read a number of contemporary poems, work on writing and revising their own poetry, explore and discuss essays by renowned poets on the “what” and “how” of poetry, (image, metaphor, sound, rhythm) so that they might become more comfortable with the reading and writing of poetry. Play, the language and the imagination will be stressed. Students will be encouraged to be “creators” with language rather than “transcribers” so that their poems surprise and inform themselves as well as their readers. This class is geared to those who have not
Explore the fascinating world of minimalist Asian-inspired poetry: learn about ancient, traditional forms like haiku, senryu, sijo, and tanka, plus forms like cinquain created by modern poets; do some writing exercises in these forms, followed by a green tea party during which we read our work to each other. Bibliography and hand-outs.
Take a mess of poems, toss them into a pile and stir many times with a large spoon of discipline. Voilà! An editor-ready manuscript! Whether you think you’ve got a book or chapbook ready to go or you’re daunted by the task of compiling one, there’s work to be done! This workshop will guide you through step-by-step of preparing your collection of poems for editorial submission. It’s a hands-on, nuts-and-bolts session that will set provide you with a recipe for success with your poems. Please bring a manuscript-in-progress or a batch of poems you’d like to see assembled one day between book covers. 
Each class in this series examines the work, technique and life of an acknowledged master of modern English language poetry—Eliot, Auden, Pound, Larkin, Ashbury, Frost—and how to apply their approaches to the student’s own writing.