Northeast Storytellers Host Haiku Workshop on April 22nd in West Burke

2017 NATIONAL POETRY MONTH EVENTS IN NORTHEAST KINGDOM

For the third year running, the Northeast Storytellers will host a haiku workshop in West Burke, Vermont as part of the 2017 National Poetry Month activities. The workshop will take place at the West Burke Library on Saturday, April 22nd from 1-3pm, and will be conducted by Judy Hishikawa.

The focus of this workshop will be on writing haiku — a popular Japanese style of poetry — taking participants from a study of the classic form and its underlying structural dynamics, to writing their own originals. Workshop leader Judy Hishikawa lived and taught language in Japan, and now resides in West Burke. She is the Northeast Storytellers’ haiku poet. Chapbooks of her poetry will be available.

National Poetry Month was inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996 and is held every April throughout the country. It is the largest literary celebration in the world — with schools, publishers, libraries, booksellers, and poets celebrating poetry’s vital role in our lives.

All Northeast Storyteller events are free and open to the public. Everybody is welcome to attend. For more information on the workshop please email instructor Judith Hishikawa on hishikawasensei@hotmail.com or call 201.519.3633.

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Contact: Judith Hishikawa
Phone: 201.519.3633
E-mail: hishikawasensei@hotmail.com

Greensboro Arts Alliance Residency’s New Writers’ Forum: August 18-24, 2014

The Greensboro Arts Alliance Residency’s new Writers’ Forum seeks to give writers the opportunity to share and be shaped by the Greensboro writing tradition, gathering a host of writers, teachers, aspirants and students. Authors of prose and verse as well as members of the public will work through collaborative workshops and readings to examine the universal influence of tradition on the craft of writing.

All readings and workshops open to the public. Receptions on 8/18 and 8/23 at 6:30 PM, and 8/24 at 4:00 PM. Supported in part by the Vermont Humanities Council.

Program Curator is Sara Dillon, Ph.D.

Readings - (Open Mic All Events)
8/18 @ 7:30 PM: Anne Stuart, History of Local Writers
8/19 @ 7:30 PM: Baron Wormser, Page Stegner, Elizabeth Inness-Brown
8/20 @ 7:30 PM: Dede Cummings, Merrill Leffler, Leland Kinsey, Emily Bernard
8/21 @ 7:30 PM: Kellie Bean, David Budbill, Edgar Davis (actor), Arthur Brooks
8/22 @ 7:30 PM: Sandy Scott, Bill Schubart, Lin Stone, Tom Greene, David Budbill
8/23 @ 7:30 PM: Sydney Lea,Gish Jen, David Ross Huddle, Lynn Stegner
8/24 @ 2:00 PM: Judith B. Jones, Bronwyn Jones Dunne, Marialisa Calta

Workshops
8/19 @ 2:00 PM: Short Stories with Elizabeth Inness-Brown
8/20 @ 2:00 PM: Poetry with Dede Cummings and Merrill Leffler
8/21 @ 2:00 PM: Playwrighting with Dr. Kellie Bean
8/22 @ 2:00 PM: Indie Publishing with Sandy Scott, Bill Schubart, and Lin Stone

All Events at Theater On The Town Hall Green, 81 Lauredon Ave, Greensboro, VT 05841

Poetry Society of Vermont: First Call, Fall Luncheon-Workshop -- Saturday, October 19, 2013

PSOV Annual Fall Luncheon-Workshop takes place Saturday, October 19 at Hotel Coolidge, 39 South Main Street in White River Junction, Vermont.

Workshop critic will be Ray Hudson, who has been a member of the Otter Creek Poetry group for over 15 years. His poems have appeared in The Comstock Review, Ice-Floe: Poetry of the Far North, and other journals. His non-fiction work (Alaskan history & ethnography) has been published by the University of Alaska Press, Epicenter Press, and Hardscratch Press. He lives in Middlebury and has been the workshop critic at two previous PSOV meetings.

Carol Milkuhn will chair the workshop. Readers will be Corey Burchman, Marta Finch, and Hal Coughlin.

A Council Meeting goes 9:30-11:30 am, followed by the luncheon at noon. After a brief business meeting, the workshop runs from about 1:15 to 3:30 pm.

The luncheon is hot buffet and is $22.00 (tax and tip included).

Go here for submission guidelines (and directions).