Readings Upcoming: April 26, 2018 Thursday, 7:30 pm Reading with Alan King and Reuben Jackson Curious Iguana Bookstore 12 N. Market Street Frederick, MD 21701 April 19, 2018 Thursday, 1:00 PM Split This Rock Poetry Festival GHOST FISHING BOOK LAUNCH Washington, DC February 28, 2018 Wednesday at 7:00 PM Reading with Celeste Doaks Philips Autograph Library 700 S. High St. West Chester University West Chester, PA 19383 Past Readings: March 21, 2017 Tuesday, 7:3o pm Inner Loop Series at the Colony Club 3118 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20010 Past: September 30, 2016 Friday, 7:00 pm George Mason University's "Fall for the Book" Epicure Cafe Fairfax, VA August 7, 2016 Sunday, 3:00 pm Malaprop's Bookstore & Cafe 55 Hayward Street Asheville, NC 28801 March 31, 2016 Thursday at 6:00 pm AWP Reading Gallery 1548 1548 S. Central Ave Los Angeles, CA 90021 *Book signing on Friday, April 1 at 2:00 Fordham University Press @AWP Book Fair April 11, 2016 Monday, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Poets Out Loud Reading Book Culture on 450 Columbus Ave., NYC April 12, 2016 Tuesday, 7:30 pm Voices Up: New Music for New Poetry 12th floor lounge, Lowenstein, Fordham Lincoln Center campus Fordham University, NYC Seven composers, seven poets, seven vocal pieces in a dazzling variety of styles! This seventh in Fordham University's spring Voices Up! concert series features soprano Lucy Dhegrae and baritone Kelvin Chan in an evening of new solo songs and duets, setting texts by poets ranging from Ezra Pound to the current winners of the Fordham University Press Poets Out Loud publication prizes. Admission is free. May 19, 2016 Thursday, 5:00-7:00pm Star Line Books 1467 Market Street, 106 Chattanooga, TN |
Workshops
June 4-29, 2018
"15 Works"
24 Pearl Street Online Writing Program
This four week poetry workshop is based on a class taught at the former Corcoran School of Art. In "15 Works," you’ll write 3 to 4 poems a week in response to assignments and prompts, with weekly themes. Comments on one another’s poems will be limited to one poem per week unless you’d like to comment on more. The workshop promises to stretch the boundaries of your imagination, silence your internal editor and help you establish a writing routine. Students who have completed similar types of “extreme” generative workshops find that exhaustion allows them to be open, quick, and intuitive. Many of your poems will be silly, terrible, unfinished and sloppy. Many will be terrific drafts. This workshop will change your writing habits. Register here.
Spring 2017
"Almost Certainly But Not Quite Right At All"
24 Pearl Street Online Writing Program
4-Week Workshop. Perhaps you have a poem you can’t get off the ground, a poem that bugs you, annoys you, drives you mad because you can’t figure out how to revise it. This 4-week workshop explores ways to begin revising poems that have been driving you crazy for months or for years. To get unstuck, I’ll provide exercises and generous comments on one poem per week. Your peers will also provide suggestions, some of which are based on a series of questions I’ve provided. This class is a fast-paced workshop designed to jump-start your revision process. The only pre-requisite is a desire to change your poems. Register here.
"15 Works"
24 Pearl Street Online Writing Program
March 27-April 21, 2017
June 5-June 30, 2017
This four week poetry workshop is based on a class taught at the former Corcoran School of Art. In "15 Works," you’ll write 3 to 4 poems a week in response to assignments and prompts, with weekly themes. Comments on one another’s poems will be limited to one poem per week unless you’d like to comment on more. The workshop promises to stretch the boundaries of your imagination, silence your internal editor and help you establish a writing routine. Students who have completed similar types of “extreme” generative workshops find that exhaustion allows them to be open, quick, and intuitive. Many of your poems will be silly, terrible, unfinished and sloppy. Many will be terrific drafts. This workshop will change your writing habits. Register here for March. For June.
To Be Moved and To Move
TBA
24 Pearl Street Online Writing Program
How can we write personal poems without sounding sentimental or self-serving? Experimenting with a dynamic mixture of time, images and phrases, this eight-week studio will help you create new poems that express a deeper personal story and “move” your readers emotionally in unexpected, unconventional ways.
Individual manuscript consultations
contact Nancy at [email protected]
I loved working with Nancy on my poetry manuscript. She delivered her detailed and thoughtful analysis in an amazingly short amount of time. She provided suggestions for improvement with concrete examples in a supportive and clear way, as well as completing a thorough line editing. Our follow up phone call was both enlightening and entertaining. Her insights helped me to understand what exactly I need to do to get my poetry to the next level. I highly recommend working with Nancy. Beth Lowell