A cento is a poem form where you also don’t use any of your own words. You have stacks of books that get passed around and perhaps on a 5 minute or 15 minute timer you grab and transcribe on your page. The object is to pull what stands out verbatim and move to the […]
Category archives: Workshops
Tree Seed Workshops: Overview
Often when a feature reader comes from out of town to present at the Tree Reading Series they remark something along the lines of: that was a fantastic open mic. Usually you have to suffer through those but I got something out of each reader. Back in 2009 Rod Pederson was the director at Tree […]
Tree Seed Workshops: Sept-Dec 2013
The second and fourth Tuesday of each month just before Tree are free drop in workshops to spark your poetic fire. They are at SAW Gallery in Ottawa Ontario. (Check The Tree site for changes.) The season continue tomorrow, September 24 with HYBRID TEXTS. Let’s explore “hybrid texts” that cross genres, that is poetry/ narrative/ […]
Fall Lineup for Tree
Sept. 10 – 8pm Moez Surani and Mathew Henderson, 6:45pm workshop on translitics by Sandra Ridley Sept. 24 – 8pm Stephanie Bolster and Sue Sinclair, 6:45pm workshop on Hybrid texts with Jenny Sampirisi Oct. 8 – 8pm Steven Price and Craig Poile, 6:45pm workshop using Stream of Consciousness Writing by Bruce Kauffman Oct. 22 – […]
Tree Workshops this Season
Each 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month the Tree Reading Series is at Arts Court on Daly Ave, just East of the Rideau Centre. It is often held in the library room on floor 2a. At 8 pm is the featured readers, sometimes an open mic and often a tribute to past poets. But […]