Thursdays, 5:30 - 7 PM $108 for six classes.
The workshop will meet six times: January 11, 18, 25, February 1, 8, 15.
You may pay as you go. $18 per class.
Location: 4221 Osage Avenue, Philadelphia, PA.
Discussion of contemporary and international poetry, and participants’
work. Weekly assignments. Improve your poetic skills. Gain a fuller
understanding of poetry in our world. Find balance, support and time
to write. Keep your spirit up. For poets at any level.
Sign up in advance.
Please contact Leonard Gontarek with interest: gontarek9@earthlink.net,
215.808.9507 – Independent workshops and manuscript editing available.
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
Have taken several sessions of The Self and Place in Poetry and leave each class in a good place. Leonard is patient and direct. With deft skill and compassionate humor he helps us find the purest parts of our poems.
Kathryn Giedgowd
Leonard Gontarek is the author of six books of poems, including, Take Your Hand
Out of My Pocket, Shiva and He Looked Beyond My Faults and Saw My Needs.
He coordinates Poetry In Common, Peace/Works, Philly Poetry Day, The
Philadelphia Poetry Festival, and hosts The Green Line Reading & Interview Series.
Since 2006, he has conducted 1000 poetry workshops in venues including,
Musehouse, The Kelly Writers House, The Moonstone Arts Center,
Free Library of Philadelphia, University City Arts League, Philadelphia
Arts in Education Partnership, and a weekly Saturday workshop from his
home in West Philadelphia. He has been Mad Poet-in-Residence since 2008.
He has received Poetry fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts,
the Mudfish Poetry Prize, the Philadelphia Writers Conference Community Service
Award, was a Literary Death Match Champion. His poem, 37 Photos From The Bridge,
a Poetry winner for the Big Bridges MotionPoems project in 2015, was the basis
for the award-winning film by Lori Ersolmaz.
Leonard Poem here:
https://voxpopulisphere.com/
Leonard Poem here:
http://www.cleavermagazine.
Leonard Poem here:
http://www.versedaily.org/
Leonard reading Promise:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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