Woodland Pattern's 25th Anniversary Workshops
Saturday, November 19th
Basic Elements with Lisa Jarnot
10am-12pm
$25/20 members
This seminar will focus on the basic building blocks
of the poem, beginning with vowels, consonants, and
syllable clusters, and evolving toward an evaluation
of the larger metrical structures inherent in
poetryphrases, lines, and stanzas. Working from Louis
Zukofsky's idea that poetry can be evaluated within
the range of "lower level speech, upper level music",
we'll explore ways to locate the musicality of
different kinds of poetry and we'll ask what makes a
poem tick. During the workshop we'll read poems that
adhere to metrical forms and we'll also look at "Open
Verse" poems. In addition we'll write some poems of
our own.
Lisa Jarnot is the author of three full-length
collections of poetry including Black Dog Songs (Flood
Editions, Chicago). She is currently completing a
biography of the San Francisco poet Robert Duncan
which will be published by University of California
Press in 2006. She lives in New York City and teaches
in the Creative Writing Program at Brooklyn College.
To register call (414) 263-5001.
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Understanding & Revealing
Characters in Fiction
with Martha Bergland
2pm-5pm
$25/20 members
Compelling fiction contains characters that draw
empathy from the reader. In this workshop we will
study and learn different techniques that help us know
the characters in our fiction, (and therefore their
conflicts). Through this deeper level of understanding
we can build characters that intrigue and captivate
our readers.
Martha Bergland's first novel, A Farm Under A Lake,
was published 1989 by Graywolf Press, and by Vintage
Books, Bloomsbury in England, Bonniers in Sweden, and
Krueger in Germany. Graywolf published her novel Idle
Curiosity in 1997. Bergland's essays, poems, and short
stories are widely published in literary journals. Her
short story, "An Embarrassment of Ordinary Riches",
was awarded a Pushcart Prize and was included in
Pushcart's anthology, Love Stories for the Rest of Us.
Bergland taught English for many years at Milwaukee
Area Technical College.
To register call (414) 263-5001.
For more information on the whole weekend visit:
http://www.woodlandpattern.org/gallery/25th_celebration.shtml
Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 E. Locust Street
Milwaukee, WI 53212
phone 414.263.5001
woodlandpattern.org
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