MAKING POEMS THAT LAST – January-February 2016
A POETRY WORKSHOP WITH LEONARD GONTAREK
While there’s no guarantee you’ll become the next Robert Frost, with the guidance of award-winning, prolific poet Leonard Gontarek, it’s at least a possibility. Encouraging students to explore as many avenues as possible and remove themselves from their work, he’ll help you find—then strengthen—your style and voice.
Philadelphia Weekly, Nicole Finkbiner
Reserve a place in the class via: gontarek9@earthlink.net
The workshop will include discussions of contemporary and international
poetry, translation, the students’ poetry, and the realities of publishing poetry.
Narrative, persona, political, homage, and confessional poetry will be
covered with a focus on what makes a poet’s voice original and their own.
Specific direction and assignments will be given, with attention
to the basic elements and forms of poetry.
Through invention students will build more accurate and textured work.
The workshop will be presented in seven 2-hour sessions,
Saturdays, 11 – 1:00 PM: January 9, 16, 23, 30, February 6, 13, 20.
Location: 4221 Osage Avenue in West Philadelphia.
The cost is 168 dollars for 7 sessions.
Please contact Leonard Gontarek with interest: gontarek9@earthlink.net,
215.808.9507 – Independent workshops and manuscript editing available.
www.leafscape.org/
Leonard reading Altogether:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Leonard poem here:
http://www.backlashpress.com/
On the state of Philly Poetry:
http://www.poetryfoundation.
Leonard reading Promise:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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).
A new book is forthcoming in 2016.
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.
In 2015, his poem, 37 Photos From The Bridge, was a Poetry winner for the Big Bridges
MotionPoems project and the basis for the winning film from the Big Bridges poetry
film contest sponsored by MotionPoems and the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis.
UPCOMING EVENT:
On November 17, 2015, a Saudi court sentenced poet Ashraf Fayadh
to death on charges of apostasy based on poems published in his book:
Instructions Within.
PEACE / WORKS &
THE GREEN LINE CAFE POETRY SERIES
in association with PEN International & PEN American Center
PRESENT:
An Open Poetry Reading
in support of Palestinian Poet, Ashraf Fayadh
TUESDAY, January 19, 7 PM
HOSTED BY LEONARD GONTAREK
(Each poet is asked to read one poem
appropriate to the occasion)
Sign Up In Advance:
gontarek9@earthlink.net
THE GREEN LINE CAFE IS LOCATED
AT 45TH & LOCUST STREETS
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA
(Please note the address, there are
other Green Line Café locations)
greenlinecafe.com
This Event Is Free
The international literature festival Berlin (ilb) is calling on “all individuals, institutions, schools and media outlets that care about justice and freedom to participate in a worldwide reading of selected poems and other texts in support of Ashraf Fayadh,” a Palestinian poet who has been sentenced to death by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
A POETRY WORKSHOP WITH LEONARD GONTAREK
While there’s no guarantee you’ll become the next Robert Frost, with the guidance of award-winning, prolific poet Leonard Gontarek, it’s at least a possibility. Encouraging students to explore as many avenues as possible and remove themselves from their work, he’ll help you find—then strengthen—your style and voice.
Philadelphia Weekly, Nicole Finkbiner
Reserve a place in the class via: gontarek9@earthlink.net
The workshop will include discussions of contemporary and international
poetry, translation, the students’ poetry, and the realities of publishing poetry.
Narrative, persona, political, homage, and confessional poetry will be
covered with a focus on what makes a poet’s voice original and their own.
Specific direction and assignments will be given, with attention
to the basic elements and forms of poetry.
Through invention students will build more accurate and textured work.
The workshop will be presented in seven 2-hour sessions,
Saturdays, 11 – 1:00 PM: January 9, 16, 23, 30, February 6, 13, 20.
Location: 4221 Osage Avenue in West Philadelphia.
The cost is 168 dollars for 7 sessions.
Please contact Leonard Gontarek with interest: gontarek9@earthlink.net,
215.808.9507 – Independent workshops and manuscript editing available.
www.leafscape.org/
Leonard reading Altogether:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Leonard poem here:
http://www.backlashpress.com/
On the state of Philly Poetry:
http://www.poetryfoundation.
Leonard reading Promise:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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).
A new book is forthcoming in 2016.
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.
In 2015, his poem, 37 Photos From The Bridge, was a Poetry winner for the Big Bridges
MotionPoems project and the basis for the winning film from the Big Bridges poetry
film contest sponsored by MotionPoems and the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis.
UPCOMING EVENT:
On November 17, 2015, a Saudi court sentenced poet Ashraf Fayadh
to death on charges of apostasy based on poems published in his book:
Instructions Within.
PEACE / WORKS &
THE GREEN LINE CAFE POETRY SERIES
in association with PEN International & PEN American Center
PRESENT:
An Open Poetry Reading
in support of Palestinian Poet, Ashraf Fayadh
TUESDAY, January 19, 7 PM
HOSTED BY LEONARD GONTAREK
(Each poet is asked to read one poem
appropriate to the occasion)
Sign Up In Advance:
gontarek9@earthlink.net
THE GREEN LINE CAFE IS LOCATED
AT 45TH & LOCUST STREETS
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA
(Please note the address, there are
other Green Line Café locations)
greenlinecafe.com
This Event Is Free
The international literature festival Berlin (ilb) is calling on “all individuals, institutions, schools and media outlets that care about justice and freedom to participate in a worldwide reading of selected poems and other texts in support of Ashraf Fayadh,” a Palestinian poet who has been sentenced to death by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
No comments:
Post a Comment