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SUMMARY:Firing the Clay: A Poetry Workshop Led by Tim Conroy
DESCRIPTION:In this two-hour writing workshop led by Tim Conroy\, poets will explore approaches to revision\, considering the content and sound of each word\, line\, and stanza of each poem. Do you need to lower expectations to generate your first draft? Do you allow the poem to discover its true beginning? Do the prepositional phrases stall the poem into a nosedive? Do your verbs disappoint your poems? Are the adverbs really necessary? Does the poem need its current chronology? Have you played Jenga with the poem to discover its own vision? Does the reader glide across the poem’s dance floor? The workshop challenges the poet to break habits and let revision bring tomorrow’s light and lens to the poem. \nThe workshop aims to clarify and challenge our identity as poets\, to elevate poems through improving habits and engaging in playful revision\, to risk failure from disassembling and reassembling for the chance to discover what the clay can reveal\, and to forget expectations for an opportunity to find the soul\, form\, and sound of a better poem. This workshop seeks the poem that’s revealed only through the act of revision\, while gladly admitting that some poems fall from the sky from pencils of light. We take solace in rigorous revision\, knowing if we break it\, we can return to its best version or shove the poem in the sock drawer for a month. \nLocation and Cost: This is an in-person writers workshop\, held at the Port Royal Sound Foundation Martime Center (310 Okatie Hwy). Limited to 15 participants with advance registration required; $45/person. https://Firingtheclayworkshop.eventbrite.com \nTools for the Workshop: Bring your lucky pen or pencil\, highlighter\, and a notebook for brainstorming and revising activities. Please print copies of 3 poems that need revising. Let’s maneuver\, choose\, experiment\, distill\, rejoice\, and operate. \nRecommended Readings:\nWriting in the Lineage of Poetry by Miriam Sagan \nArt and Fear: Observations on the Perils of Art Making by David Bayles and Ted Orland \nThe Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction by Dean Young \nThe Art of Writing by Lu Chi’s Wen Fu\, translated by Sam Hamill \nDisclosure: This workshop wouldn’t have been possible without the insights and poems of the poet Georgia Popoff who inspires countless poets to examine their revision practices. Georgia Popoff’s books include Psalter: The Agnostic’s Book of Common Curiosities (Tiger Bark Press\, 2015)\, The Doom Weaver (Main Street Rag Publications\, 2008)\, and Coaxing Nectar From Longing (Hale Mary Press\, 1997). \nAbout Our Instructor: Tim Conroy\, the author of the collections Theologies of Terrain and No True Route\, is a former special educator. His poems have been included in numerous journals\, compilations\, and anthologies. His poems often explore themes of family and nature\, incorporating philosophical elements. In 2022\, he received the Broad River Prize for prose from Fall Lines\, Volume IX. A founding board member of the Pat Conroy Literary Center\, established in his brother’s honor\, Tim recently moved with his wife Terrye to the beautiful town of Beaufort\, South Carolina.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/firing-the-clay-a-poetry-workshop-led-by-tim-conroy/
LOCATION:Port Royal Sound Foundation\, 310 Okatie Hwy\, Okatie\, SC\, 29909\, US
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SUMMARY:"I Was Born to Be in a Library": Pat Conroy's Great Love of Libraries
DESCRIPTION:“A library could show you everything\, if you knew where to look.”—Pat Conroy\, My Reading Life \nThe author of “The Prince of Tides\,” “The Great Santini” and “The Water Is Wide\,” Pat Conroy (1945–2016) is synonymous with the literature of the Lowcountry. Pat Conroy Literary Center executive director Jonathan Haupt will discuss Conroy’s lifelong love of books and libraries—focusing on the roles public libraries\, school libraries\, and Pat’s own personal library played in his writing life. \nThrough video and audio clips\, photographs\, and published and unpublished writings by and about Conroy\, this presentation welcomes attendees into the book-filled world of one of America’s most beloved writers. Also included will be an overview of the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center which honors and continues Conroy’s legacy as writer and educator in his adopted hometown of Beaufort. \nThis free literary program will be held at the Charleston County Main Library at 68 Calhoun St. in historic downtown Charleston on Thursday\, September 18\, at 6:00-7:00 p.m. \nAbout Our Presenter\nJonathan Haupt is the executive director of the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center\, the past director of the University of South Carolina Press\, and co-editor of the anthology Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy\, winner of 17 book awards. He is a frequent guest book reviewer for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Charleston Post and Courier. Under Jonathan’s leadership\, the Conroy Center has been recognized as an American Library Association Literary Landmark\, an affiliate of the American Writers Museum\, and winner of the Civitas Award for Tourism Leadership.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/i-was-born-to-be-in-a-library-pat-conroys-great-love-of-libraries/
LOCATION:Charleston County Public Library\, 68 Calhoun St\, Charleston\, SC\, 29401\, US
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