Hello Poets, You asked, sometime since 2016, to be in the loop when my short poem class got up and running. We’re there! It will be 4 weeks long at a site for learning called Thinkific. It starts this week, where you can set your own pace. The space is open for 2 months. I’ll […]
Category Archives: Workshops
New Short Forms Workshops Coming In April
April 3-May 8, 2017, weekly on Mondays for 6 weeks. Haiku and other short forms: Haiku, senryu, short lyric, tanka, minimalism, one word poems, erasure poetry. Online, and in-person thru Studio Nouveau in Ottawa if there’s 6 people in person. The best of participant poems go into a phafours press chapbook. $200 for 12 hours. I […]
Come Let us Workshop Together
Some Tree Seed Workshop participants earlier this week where Peter Richardson did a round table of poems sent ahead and brought in on the day. He gave a couple exercises and an essay of notes on his process. Next time, next Tree, is September 23, workshop doors open 6:30 at Black Squirrel Books, 1073 Bank […]
Ottawa Public Library Poetry Readings & Workshops
Want to take a poetry workshop with the Ottawa Public Library? There are 4 over the month. The first one is with Pearl Pirie (hey, that’s me) is A Notch Up: Sat, April 5th, 2014, 2-4pm Poetry Workshop: A Notch Up: How to push your poetry another notch? A poem from each participant will get […]
Remix Poetry Workshop/CAA
I’ll be giving a workshop soon… Tues, April 8th, 2014, 7-9pm Canadian Author Association, Ottawa Remixing your poetic material workshop at Canadian Authors Association Remix culture is presented as characteristic of our age but poetry’s toolbox has long been taking pieces from here and there and synthesizing elements to new effect. Partly hands on, partly […]