“The Creative Fire of Folklore: a poetry reading, writing & discussion workshop”
“The Creative Fire of Folklore” pairs present-day auditory observations with old family sayings, showing how the past informs or intrudes on the present.
“The Creative Fire of Folklore” pairs present-day auditory observations with old family sayings, showing how the past informs or intrudes on the present.
Join the library for a two-week weekend workshop with published poet Susan Comninos. Comninos will discuss and employ techniques for incorporating elements of your own community’s folklore into identity-based poems that can function as your own “origin stories.” Come prepared to try your hand at techniques for folding family sayings, stories, and more into poetry …
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Join the library for a two-week weekend workshop with published poet Susan Comninos. Comninos will discuss and employ techniques for incorporating elements of your own community’s folklore into identity-based poems that can function as your own “origin stories.” Come prepared to try your hand at techniques for folding family sayings, stories, and more into poetry …
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On Wednesday, November 2, 2022, Caffè Lena and host Carol Graser presents a poetry reading by Susan Comninos followed by an open mic.
A new workshop reading and discussing poems by these masters of verse, as well as writing and workshop our own poems using in-class exercises and assignments that draw on Jewish wellsprings.
The Hudson Valley Writers Guild supports the efforts of writers in all genres by sponsoring readings, workshops, and contests and providing a number of valuable resources for the entire literary community.