Saturday, March 7, 2-4pm
$25 = master class & ticket to 7pm Gudding & Giscombe reading
We'll look at some examples of how poets (and some prose writers) have accounted for the places they've gotten to and traveled through. We'll do some experiments and I'll ask workshop participants to try to bend ways of talking about places to fit their own needs as writers. What sorts of things can be done to make a place new for both writer and reader? What's the value that different sorts of language (published guide-books, personal journals, language found en-route, etc.) can bring to the project? How do one's particulars (gender, race, national identity, etc.) contribute to the way one sees? How is the place we've been different than the place we're describing? We'll read pieces by Basho, Jean Toomer, Michael Ondaatje, Joanne Kyger, and a couple of others. (People should bring a few pages from a journal or a few written notes based on a memory of a particular trip.)
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C. S. Giscombe was born in Dayton, Ohio. His poetry books are Prairie Style, Two Sections from Practical Geography, Giscome Road, Here, At Large, and Postcards; his prose book—about Canada—is Into and Out of Dislocation. Prairie Style was awarded an American Book Award by the Before Columbus Foundation; Giscome Road won the Carl Sandburg Prize, given by the Chicago Public Library. C. S. Giscombe's writing has also won him fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fund for Poetry, and the Canadian Embassy.
To read a full bio and some of his poetry visit:
http://woodlandpattern.org/poems/cs_giscombe01.shtml
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Gabriel Gudding is the author of two books, A Defense of Poetry (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002) and Rhode Island Notebook (Dalkey Archive Press, 2007), a 436 page poem written in his car. His essays and poetry have appeared such venues as Harper's Magazine, Great American Prose Poems, New American Writing, The Nation. He serves on the Board of Directors for the internationalist magazine Mandorla: New Writing from the Americas/ Nueva Escritura de las Américas and teaches "experimental" poetry and poetics at Illinois State University.
To read a full bio and some of his poetry visit:
http://woodlandpattern.org/poems/gabriel_gudding01.shtml
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