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MAKING POEMS THAT LAST – Autumn (September-October)  2018 



A POETRY WORKSHOP WITH LEONARD GONTAREK


ENROLLMENT IS LIMITED / Sign Up In Advance 

Reserve a place in the class via: gontarek9@earthlink.net


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




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.


All participants are asked to participate in the Green Line Open Poetry Reading,
Tuesday, September 25, 7 PM – Green Line Café, 45th & Locust Streets, Philadelphia, PA.


The workshop will be presented in eight 2-hour classes,
All Saturdays, 11:00 – 1:00 PM: September 8, 15, 22, 29, October 6, 13, 20, 27.                                               
The cost is 192 dollars for 8 classes.
24 dollars per class. You may pay as you go.     Sign up in advance.

Please contact Leonard Gontarek with interest: gontarek9@earthlink.net,
215.808.9507 – Independent workshops and manuscript editing available.

Location: 4221 Osage Avenue in West Philadelphia.



Leonard poems here:


http://rasputinpoetry.blogspot.com/2018/04/leonard-gontarek-withstands-her.html





Leonard Gontarek is the author of six books of poems:
St. Genevieve Watching Over Paris, Van Morrison Can’t Find His Feet,
Zen For Beginners, Déjà Vu Diner, He Looked Beyond My Faults
and Saw My Needs, and Take Your Hand Out of My Pocket, Shiva 
(Hanging Loose Press, 2016) – Available from Small Press Distribution & Amazon.

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.
He is Poetry Consultant for the Walt Whitman At 200: Art And Democracy project.




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THE GREEN LINE 
CAFÉ POETRY SERIES &

P O E T R Y   I N   C O M M O N


PRESENT:

AN OPEN POETRY READING

Guest Host: JEN ANOLIK


Tuesday, September 25, 2018, 7 PM

Sign Up In Advance: jenanolik@gmail.com
Each Reader Has 5 Minutes


THE GREEN LINE CAFE IS LOCATED 
AT 45TH & LOCUST STREETS
PHILADELPHIA, PA
(Please note the address, there are
  other Green Line Café locations.)

greenlinecafe.com

     This Event Is Free


Coordinator: JEN ANOLIK

Series Coordinator: LEONARD GONTAREK