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Apply to attend a workshop between June 1 and November 2, 2010. Festival workshops are limited to 12 qualified participants and 3 auditors to provide a meaningful level of discussion, and careful, informed attention to your work. Beginning poets, shy about sharing their poems, should consider auditing a workshop as a great way to learn by observing and listening. (scroll down for detailed schedule)
To apply, review our Guidelines and use the online application to apply early. Click on schedule, to see what's planned for the week.
WORKSHOPS FOR QUALIFIED WRITERS OF POETRY
Now Look What You Have Done with STUART DISCHELL
Enlarging Poems with JANE HIRSHFIELD
Word By Word, Line By Line with THOMAS LUX
An Architecture of Senses with HEATHER McHUGH
The Plot of the Poem with VIJAY SESHADRI
The Craft of Poetry with ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT
Writing at the Edges of Things with C.D. WRIGHT
Poetry Lab with DEAN YOUNG
Click this pdf link to view or download the Complete Schedule for 2011 Workshop Participants. (pdf)
| Monday, January 17 (Martin Luther King Day) (Book Signings follow all reading events) |
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| 6:00 - 7:00 pm | Registration and Welcome Reception | Vintage Gymnasium | ||
| 7:00 - 8:00 pm | Organizational Meeting of Workshops | Assigned Classrooms | ||
Tuesday, January 18: |
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| 9:30 am - 12 noon | First Workshop Session | Assigned Classrooms | ||
| 12:00 - 2:00 pm | Conferences may be scheduled** | Crest Theatre | ||
| 2:00 - 4:00 pm | Craft Talks: Jane Hirshfield and Vijay Seshadri |
Crest Theatre | ||
| 4:00 - 5:30 pm | Titles tba Followed by Q&A Combat Mic Fright with Taylor Mali |
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| 8:00 - 10:00 pm | Kick-Off Reading: Heather McHugh & Dean Young |
Crest Theatre | ||
Wednesday, January, 19 |
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| 9:30 am - 12 noon | Second Workshop Session | Assigned Classrooms | ||
| 12:00 - 2:00 pm | Conferences may be scheduled** | Crest Theatre | ||
| 2:00 - 3:30 pm | Craft Talks: Heather McHugh & Thomas Lux |
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| 5:00 - 8:00 pm | Festival Gala: Cocktails & Dinner* | Vintage Gymnasium | ||
| 8:00 - 10:30 pm | Gala Reading: Robert Pinsky & Jazz Music | Crest Theatre | ||
Thursday, January 20: |
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| 9:30 am - 12 noon | Third Workshop Session | Assigned Classrooms | ||
| 12:00 - 2:00 pm | Conferences may be scheduled ** | Crest Theatre | ||
| 2:00 - 4 pm | Craft Talks: Dean Young & Ellen Bryant Voigt |
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| 3:00 - 5:30 pm | Workshop Participants Reading I (free)*** | Crest Theatre Free Event | ||
| 8:00 - 10:00 pm | Midway Reading: Vijay Seshadri & C.D. Wright | Crest Theatre | ||
Friday, January 21: |
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| 9:30 am - 12:00 noon | Fourth Workshop Session | Assigned Classrooms | ||
| 12:00 - 2:00 pm | Conferences may be scheduled ** | Crest Theatre | ||
| 2:00 - 3:30 pm | Craft Talks: Stuart Dischell & C.D. Wright |
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| 3:30 - 5:00 pm | Workshop Participants Public Reading II (free) *** | Crest Theatre | ||
| 8:00 - 10:00 pm | TFIG Reading: Jane Hirshfield & Thomas Lux |
Crest Theatre | ||
Saturday, January 22: |
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| 9:30 am - 12 noon | Fifth Workshop Session | Assigned Classrooms | ||
| 2:00 - 4:30 pm | Panel Discussion: Beloved & Influential Poems: Young, Wright, Voigt, Seshadri, McHugh, Lux, Hirshfield, Dischell | Crest Theatre | ||
| 7:00 - 9:00 pm | Finale Reading: Stuart Dischell & Ellen Bryant Voigt |
Crest Theatre | ||
| 9:00 - 10:00 pm | Coffee House: Performance | Vintage Gymnasium | ||
| 10:00 - 11:00 pm | Poetry & Party | |||
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Performance Poets: Blair & Taylor Mali followed by DiscO'Hara, Dance Party with DJ Scott Cunningham |
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* Partners and spouses of workshop participants are invited to attend the Fundraising Gala. Tickets are $125 (1 guest/participant) Tickets are $125. Auditor Tuition does not include the gala. Auditors may attend with one guest, tickets: $125 each. ** 15 minute conferences will be scheduled at mutually agreed upon times and at faculty discretion *** Workshop participants are invited to read one poem, one page maximum, at one of the participant readings. |
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Use this link to download a PDF of the 2011 Festival brochure.
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