14TH
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WORKSHOP OPPORTUNITIES
PALM BEACH POETRY FESTIVAL WORKSHOP OPPORTUNITIES
Attending the Palm Beach Poetry Festival as a workshop participant provides an opportunity to focus on your work in the company of some of America's most extraordinary poets, with a community of qualified writers of poetry who share common interests and goals.
 
Participants tell us these dynamic festival workshops have helped to develop improved revision skills through careful, concerned critique. New poems are generated through writing prompts, exercises and discussion. Each workshop, conceived by the individual faculty, offers a specific focus for the week of working together. The goal of our admissions process is to ensure that participants bring and gain valuable insights from their conversations at the poetic table, as everyone contributes to the discussion and learns. Each year, poets from all over the world come together and find inspiration at events that will challenge and delight as much, or more, as beautiful downtown Delray Beach in South Florida's gentle winter season.

Poetry Lights The Way at the 14th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival, January 15-20, 2018. Apply now to attend a workshop and join us in Delray Beach!


WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS BY FACULTY POET

THE TWELVE STEPS TOWARD REVISION with LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR
This very inter-active workshop focuses on how to strengthen and hone your revision skills by systematically and individually addressing all the elements of a poem including structure, tone, line-breaks, form, syntax, sounds, and more. I will also give prompts or exercises to do during the week or later at home. ...bring your sense of humor, imagination and three poems that need work. 
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POEMS FOR THE FIRST AND LAST DAY OF THE WORLD with GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI    A Generative and Contemplative Journey 
Rilke tells us we must change our lives but what the heck does that mean? How can our poems help us meet the great mystery of what comes next? In a mix of reading and writing the workshop will function like a lab. Experimenting with form and structure, we'll work to generate enough poems and exercises to take you through at least a season of adventure and possibility. ... Find out more about this workshop ...
THE TRANSPERSONAL SELF with CHARD DENIORD This workshop will focus on reading and writing poems whose speakers place another before them, and make charged figurative connections to what Walt Whitman called "the other I am." We will read each other's poems line by line, examining line breaks, poetic strategy, form, intention, imagery, tropes, verbal music, and what Keats described as "negative capability."  ...  Find out more about this workshop ...    
SOUND, SYNTAX, STANZA, MAGIC, NUTS AND BOLTS with BETH ANN FENNELLY This intensive, interactive workshop will combine craft classes with generative prompts, in-class writing, and workshopping.  Our goal will be to leave our time together with four new drafts, ... and four poems written prior to the festival being workshopped. Day 1: Four Ways Poets Can Use Sound to Make Meaning; Assignment: Sound Poem, Workshop. Day 2: Syntax and Diction.  Assignment: Syntax Poem, Workshop. Day 3: The Line, the Stanza, the Page.  Assignment:, Kinesology Poem, Workshop. Day 4: The Magic of Metaphor, Assignment: Metaphor Poem, Workshop. Day 5: Nuts and Bolts ...   Find out more about this workshop ... 

VOICE & VISION with PHILLIS LEVIN
What gives texture, momentum, and character to a poem? Together we focus on drafting and revising new work while exploring key elements of the craft: dynamics of lineation, the power of syntax, realms of the stanza, the drama of rhetorical form. We consider each poem as an ecosystem and critique all work in that light. Most of class time is spent discussing your own poems, forces at play within: rhythm, diction, image, figure, tone. We begin each day's workshop by reading several touchstone poems whose strategies, when internalized, spur stylistic development and open unforeseen ways of sounding/shaping/re-envisioning what you compose ...
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SHARING JOY: MAKING POEMS THAT SNAP, CRACKLE, AND POP
with AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL 
Building upon Audre Lorde's idea that "the sharing of joy...forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference," we will spend our time in workshop generating poems that sing and celebrate the various big and small delights of this earth. We will also discuss each other's poems in workshop and each day learn a new poetic practice to help keep you generating new work long after you return home ...  Find out more about this workshop ...
14th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival
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anuary 15-20, 2018, Delray Beach, Florida  

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