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Creativity and Aging with Jack Collom Wilson Park Senior Center, 2601 W. Howard Ave. Seven sessions in June and July Meets Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1pm-3pm Workshop is FREE! Call 414-282-5566 to register. |
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Eco-poetics Workshop with Jack Collom Saturday, June 6, 2-5pm $25 includes ticket to the evening reading |
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Life Writing in Poetry with Judith Harway Saturday, July 25, 1-4pm $30 / $25 members |
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Write Here Write Now: A Journaling Workshop with Chuck Eigen Saturday, August 1, 1-5pm $40 / $35 members |
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August Fun with Form with Peggy Rozga Saturday, August 29, 1-3pm $25 / $20 members |
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residency with Jack Collom
Jack Collom will lead a series of creative memoir writing workshops with older adults beginning June 2, 2009. This exciting project will help nurture and share the voices of older adults through a lively series of writing exercises and playful exploration. Workshops are open to anyone over 50 and will be held at Wilson Park Senior Center, 2601 W. Howard Avenue in Milwaukee. Don't miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to tell your story!Jack Collom joined the U.S. Air Force and wrote his first poems in Tripoli, Libya. He returned to the U.S. and worked in factories for twenty years. He earned a BA and an MA in English on the GI Bill, and has taught Creative Writing free-lance for over thirty years. Collom has authored 22 books and chapbooks. In 2001, Tuumba Press issued a more than 500-page-long volume, Red Car Goes By, as his Selected Poems. His latest books are Exchanges of Earth & Sky and Situations, Sings. Woodland Pattern looks forward to hosting Jack Collom as part of a Creativity and Aging initiative, with generous support from the NEA's Creativity and Aging in America initiative, the UWM Center on Age and Community, and Interfaith Milwaukee. The Workshop will conclude with a public reading at the Milwaukee Public Library. For more information contact Chuck Stebelton at Woodand PatternBook Center 414-263-5001 |
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with Jack Collom Saturday, June 6, 2-5pm $25 includes ticket to 7pm reading
To me, Humor and Nature are one, or maybe one and a half. Nature is everything and everything is funny. Case closed. Incongruity donut, I mean done it. We'll look into some old shell games (like which is funnier, skeletons or people? trees without leaves or trees with leaves?) but mostly we'll make our own via tradeoff poems, trying to write something that isn't funny, and other doomed enterprises. We'll also woodpecker a little surreal.Jack Collom joined the U.S. Air Force and wrote his first poems in Tripoli, Libya. He returned to the U.S. and worked in factories for twenty years. He earned a BA and an MA in English on the GI Bill, and has taught Creative Writing free-lance for over thirty years. Collom has authored 22 books and chapbooks. In 2001, Tuumba Press issued a more than 500-page-long volume, Red Car Goes By, as his Selected Poems. His latest books are Exchanges of Earth & Sky and Situations, Sings. |
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with Judith Harway Saturday, July 25, 1-4pm $30 / $25 members 
This workshop will help participants to identify and frame key stories from life in poetry. Through a variety of activities (brainstorming, directed writing exercises, reading contemporary poems, discussion), participating writers will discover new influences and directions, and explore the range of their own voices.Judith Harway's books of poetry include All That is Left (Turning Point Books, 2009) and The Memory Box (Zarigueya Press, 2002). Her work has appeared in dozens of literary journals, and has earned fellowships from the Wisconsin Arts Board, the Hambidge Center and the MacDowell Colony. She is on the faculty of the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. |
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with Chuck Eigen Saturday, August 1, 1-5pm $40 / $35 members 
There are many good reasons for not writing, and none of them will help you write, but a relationship with your writing or creativity, can help things happen. In this workshop, we will use journaling techniques developed by Ira Progroff in the Intensive Journal Method, to kindle our creativity. Learn powerful ways to deepen the creative project (artistic or otherwise) already underway; or to get started, break through enertia, and build momentum with the project waiting to come. Beginners as well as seasoned writers, artists, and creators of any kind are welcome. This is Chuck Eigen's third workshop at Woodland Pattern Book Center. Chuck is a writer, psychotherapist, bodyworker, and Zen practitioner in Milwaukee. He has taught creative writing and has led workshops and retreats in writing and creativity throughout the area. |
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with Peggy Rozga Saturday, August 29, 1-3pm $25 / $20 members 
August (proper noun): the eighth month of the calendar yearaugust (adj.): imposing, impressive, dignified, grand Forms such as the villanelle, pantoum and use of anaphora offer a challenge. They may seem august, in the sense of impressive or dignified, maybe demanding, even stiff. Unfun. But they can get us where we want to go poetically: poems with new insight and depth. In this workshop we'll focus first on content: memories, moments of history, observation, sample poems, and free-writing. Then we'll turn our attention to shaping this content, with particular attention to what works with repeating words and lines. We'll discuss and discover ways to make the repetition work first to one effect and then to another in our poems. Join in this August fun! Poet and Civil Rights activist Margaret (Peggy) Rozga is author of 200 Nights and One Day (Benu Press, 2009). Her play, March on Milwaukee: A Memoir of the Open Housing Protests, is based on her experience in the civil rights movement in Milwaukee. In 2007, she received the UW Colleges Chancellor's award for outstanding achievement for the events she organized to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Milwaukee's open housing marches. |
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