Poetry Flash Benefit
at the Ruskin
Saturday, February 21,
2009 • 2PM
Victoria Chang, Martha Ronk, David St. John, Charles
Harper Webb, with Poetry Flash editors Joyce
Jenkins and Richard Silberg
$10-$5 sliding scale, no one turned away
ALL-DAY POETRY WORKSHOP
Saturday, April 18, 2009
• 9:30AM-4:30PM
with breakfast & lunch
"Philip Levine and Larry Levis: Fresno Poetry and its
Influence"
with David St. John
Philip Levine is arguably the most influential living
poet in America. As a poet his work has not only won
every prize available but has also helped to shape the
direction of American poetry over the past 40 years.
As a teacher, his influence has spread far beyond those
writers known as The Fresno Poets (there have been four
anthologies of work by Fresno poets) through his many
years of teaching at
Tufts University, NYU and other institutions as well.
We will also look at the work of Levine's most famous
student, Larry Levis, whose poetry has emerged as some
of the most influential work (look at the poems of Tony
Hoagland, Marie Howe etc., as well as countless younger
poets) of the past 20 years. Bring boxes of raisins
and be able to quote at least one line from William
Saroyan.
$95 all day (breakfast & lunch included)
$45 audit (breakfast & morning session until 12:30
only)
Checks made payable to the Ruskin Art Club.
Send to: P.O. Box 3761, Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA 90274
Deposits of $35 non-refundable unless we cancel the
workshop
Full pay-non-refundable if you cancel within five days
of the workshop, because
we can’t replace your spot, thank you.
Questions/Contact: Elena Karina Byrne Ekduende(at)cox.net
ALL-DAY
POETRY WORKSHOP
This
workshop has been postponed until late spring!
SATURDAY,
JANUARY 10, 2009 • 9:30AM-4:00PM
with breakfast &
lunch
"MAKING POEMS FUNNY" with MOLLY
BENDALL
Have you found that when you give a
poetry reading you'd like to have
something
to read that makes the audience laugh?
Or haven't you been glad (and
relieved)
when you've attended a poetry reading and
the poet read something witty and you
found yourself giggling? In this
workshop we will talk about what makes a
poem
humorous. We'll investigate
categories and types of humor, such as
wit, irony,
absurdity, irreverence, wackiness, and
others. And we'll examine what
contributes
to a poem's humor---language and word
choice? Tone? Subject matter?
Structure
or form? And looking at some
examples by a wide range of poets,
including Dorothy Parker, Frank O'Hara,
Amy Gerstler, James Tate, Mary Ruefle,
Charles Harper Webb,
Cathleen Calbert and others, we'll try to
come to some conclusions about humor in
poems.
Exercises will be given too. Molly Bendall
is a poet and USC Professor.
Bring a poem of your own that you consider
humorous. It would be great if
you
e-mailed them ahead of time:
bendall(at)usc.edu
$95 all day (breakfast & lunch
included)
$45 audit (breakfast & morning session
until 12:30 only)
Checks made payable to the Ruskin Art
Club.
Send to: P.O. Box 3761, Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA 90274
Deposits of $35 non-refundable unless we
cancel the workshop
Full pay-non-refundable if you cancel
within five days of the workshop,
because
we can’t replace your spot, thank
you.
Questions/Contact: Elena Karina Byrne Ekduende(at)cox.net
