POETRY RETREAT IN THE WOODS
Thanks for everyone’s interest in and support of POETRY RETREAT IN THE WOODS. The next dates are:
October 11-12, 2008
February 21-22, 2009
10-6 PM
Heathcote Community Conference Center
21300 Heathcote Road Freeland, MD 21053
This weekend workshop will explore economy in poetry, and the art of “show, don’t tell,” giving the our reader or audience our thoughts through imagery.
Join us in Heathcote Community’s historic mill for a weekend of reading, writing, playing and performing. Bring your old favorites and works in progress for our critique sessions.
This weekend is for any writer who wants to take her/his poetry to the next level, especially for publication or performance. Who is your audience? What are your goals–Are you trying to communicate specific ideas or hone poetic craft? Do you get quagmired in or avoid rewrites? Come to the woods and dance poetically outside of your comfort zone!
Poetry is like film–There are endless genres and audiences. Let me take you on a challenging ride to the unexpected image that guards the core of your poem!
By way of detail, my style is facilitation, rather than lecture, and very socratic. Plus, I prefer to teach by creating active experiences, getting participants moving and jostled out of their logical minds. I’ll be adapting Zegg Forum and other exercises to help you find the “core imagery” of your poem(s). Then I’m going to dance you back into your logical mind to learn to rewrite for publication.
Communal lodging for participants will be provided in the workshop space. Meals are vegan/vegetarian, and organic, provided in Heathcote Community’s kitchen and dining room.
Email Wren Tuatha with questions. Cut & paste the form below to register:
FEES depend on your travel plans:
workshop $100 $100
lodging
Fri nite $10 _____
Sat nite $10 _____
Sun nite $10 _____
meals
Fri dinner $5 _____
Sat breakfast $2 _____
Sat lunch $3 _____
Sat dinner $5 _____
Sun breakfast $2 _____
Sun lunch $3 _____
Sun dinner $5 _____
airport transportation
arriving $20 _____
departing $20 _____
Please make checks payable to
CURIO COAST PRODUCTIONS,
or pay via paypal, to
curiocoastREMOVE@comcast.net.
Participants can economize several ways:
*Work Exchange for part of workshop fee
*Work Exchange for part of lodging fee
*(vegetarian) Potluck some meals
*Recruit other participants for a reduced workshop fee
Contact Wren for details!
About the Facilitator:
Wren Tuatha is Artist-in-Residence at Heathcote Center.
Her poems have appeared in The Baltimore Review, The Loch Raven Review, Digges’ Choice, The Baltimore Women’s TImes, The Green Revolution and the anthology Blood and Tears. She received a Young Authors Award in Poetry from The Courier Journal. She is a founding member of Baltimore’s Sunday Salon critique group. She wrote a stage play from her poetry, This Is How She Steps on Snakes, which she performed in Baltimore and at Towson University. The journal Grub Street awarded her first prize for slam poetry.
Wren is principally a screenwriter, under the banner Curio Coast Productions. She wrote the feature scripts Bacca Blooms, Strands of Emily, This Is How She Steps on Snakes and My Second Simone. She is currently developing feature film scripts for collaboration with Rattle the Cage and others. She studied poetry, as well as Electronic Media and Film, at Towson University and education at University of Louisville. Her short films, “Totems of a Road-Colored Goat” and “Sparrow, Like Everyone,” are poem treatments.
