Poetry Writing Workshop:
The Path of Surprise
Saturday, Nov. 10
10 a.m. till 2 p.m.
Waccamaw Center for Higher Education
160 Willbrook Boulevard
Pawleys Island, SC 29585
Susan Meyers, instructor
Writing poems should be more than telling anecdotes from a life you already know or describing something you’ve seen. It should take you down a path of surprise. “No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader,” Robert Frost wisely noted. In this class we’ll use writing activities and handouts of published poems, as well as discussion, to take us farther down that serendipitous path. We’ll study poems that leap, swerve, and follow their particular logic—then we’ll write our own.
Lunch can be purchased at a nearby deli, or bring your own.
Registration, $30: Coastal Carolina University Lifelong Learning,
843-349-4032 or www.coastal.edu/outreach.
Sunday, October 07, 2007
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
My poem featured on the Poetry Foundation's "Harriet" blog
Thanks to Rigoberto Gonzalez for featuring my poem "Contraries" on his Wednesday Shout Out at the Poetry Foundation blog.
Monday, October 01, 2007
Saturday, October 6: Workshop on Writing about the Natural World
Take a Step in the Write Direction: Explore Nature Writing
Saturday, October 6, 10 a.m. - 12 noon
Charleston County Public Library
Calhoun Street, Charleston, SC
Poets Susan Meyers and Marjory Wentworth offer a workshop on writing about the natural world. Writing activities will focus on the Lowcountry landscape in all its manifestations, the spiritual connection to place and the ways in which the natural world incorporates life and death simultaneously and continuously. A recommended bibliography will be provided to all participants. Open to writers of both poetry and prose. Registration is requested.
Marjory Wentworth’s poems have appeared in numerous books and magazines, and she has twice been nominated for The Pushcart Prize. Noticing Eden, a collection of poems, was published in 2003. Her next collection, Despite Gravity, has just been released by Ninety-Six Press. She is the Poet Laureate of South Carolina.
Susan Meyers is the author of two poetry collections that turn to the natural world for subject, imagery, and inspiration. Her book Keep and Give Away (University of South Carolina Press, 2006) won the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, the SIBA Book Award for Poetry, and the Brockman-Campbell Book Award.
Saturday, October 6, 10 a.m. - 12 noon
Charleston County Public Library
Calhoun Street, Charleston, SC
Poets Susan Meyers and Marjory Wentworth offer a workshop on writing about the natural world. Writing activities will focus on the Lowcountry landscape in all its manifestations, the spiritual connection to place and the ways in which the natural world incorporates life and death simultaneously and continuously. A recommended bibliography will be provided to all participants. Open to writers of both poetry and prose. Registration is requested.
Marjory Wentworth’s poems have appeared in numerous books and magazines, and she has twice been nominated for The Pushcart Prize. Noticing Eden, a collection of poems, was published in 2003. Her next collection, Despite Gravity, has just been released by Ninety-Six Press. She is the Poet Laureate of South Carolina.
Susan Meyers is the author of two poetry collections that turn to the natural world for subject, imagery, and inspiration. Her book Keep and Give Away (University of South Carolina Press, 2006) won the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, the SIBA Book Award for Poetry, and the Brockman-Campbell Book Award.
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