The Self and Place in Poetry
Instructor: Leonard Gontarek
This course is designed to accommodate poets at all levels of accomplishment. The ABC's of poetry (assonance, blank verse, caesura) will be addressed as well as the basics: What is a good beginning, ending, and title for a poem and how should a poem look on the page? Contemporary American and international poets from A.R. Ammons to Adam Zagajewski will be discussed. Narrative, persona, political, lyric and confessional poetry (among others) will be covered. You will learn to identify your strengths, trust them, and employ them in your work. You will be guided to build more accurate and textured poems. There will be weekly assignments.
|Tuesdays|6/16-7/21|11:30 - 1:00 p.m.
|Private Residence, 10 Drum Moir Lane, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia PA
|$130|
CONTACT: Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno
By Phone: 484-432-1792; 215-885-7447
Email: musehousecenter@gmail.com
Leonard Gontarek is the author of five books of poems:
St. Genevieve Watching Over Paris, Van Morrison Can’t Find His Feet,
Zen For Beginners, Déjà Vu Diner, and He Looked Beyond My Faults
and Saw My Needs (Hanging Loose Press, 2013).
His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Field, Poet Lore,
Verse, Handsome, Fence, Blackbird, The Awl, Poetry Northwest,
and in the anthologies, The Best American Poetry, The Working Poet,
and Joyful Noise: American Spiritual Poetry. He has received five
Pushcart Prize nominations and twice received poetry fellowships
from the Pennsylvania Council On The Arts.
He was the 2011 Philadelphia Literary Death Match Champion.
He coordinates The Philadelphia Poetry Festival, Peace/Works: Poetry Readings
for Peace, and the Green Line Café Reading and Interview Series.
Since 2006 he has conducted 1000 poetry workshops in venues including,
The Moonstone Arts Center, Musehouse, The Kelly Writers House,
University City Arts League, Free Library of Philadelphia,
Mad Poets Society, Philadelphia Arts in Education Partnership,
and a weekly Saturday workshop from his home in West Philadelphia.
In 2014 he created the first Philly Poetry Day. He was recipient of
the Philadelphia Writers Conference Community Service Award in 2014.
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