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with Jacqueline Lalley and Christi Clancy Sundays, February 21, 28 & March 7, 3-5pm $65/$60 members |
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An Explorer or a Mathematician: A Master Class with Michelle Taransky Saturday, March 5, 2-5pm $25 includes a ticket to the 7pm reading |
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Introduction to Artist Trading Cards with Carolyn Brady Sunday, March 21, 1-4pm $40/$35 members (price includes cost of materials) |
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From Concept to Distribution: A Step by Step Workshop on Publishing Your Chapbook/Book with John Lehman Sunday, April 18, 1-4pm $35/$30 members |
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with Jacqueline Lalley and Christi Clancy Sundays, February 21, 28 & March 7, 3-5pm $65/$60 members
Are you new to personal essays, or have you been away from writing for a while? Go from rusty to revved up in three weekly sessions. Whether you have a story that needs telling or just want to reconnect with your creative self, this workshop will get you started and see you through much of the creative process. Over the course of three Sundays, we'll study craft, try out some writing prompts and exercises, and move into writing our own personal essays. You'll connect with other writers and get feedback on your work in a constructive and encouraging environment.  Jackie Lalley is a contributor to The Onion, and her essays have been aired on WUWM's Lake Effect and published in Rejected: Tales of the Failed, Dumped, and Cancelled; Secrets and Confidences: The Complicated Truth about Women's Friendships; and other publications. Christi Clancy's short fiction and personal essays have appeared in Glimmer Train Stories, Hobart, The Rambler, on literary mama and elsewhere. She was the winner of the 2008 Wisconsin Writer's Council award for short fiction, and her work has been nominated for Best American Voices and the Pushcart Prize. |
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with Michelle Taransky Saturday, March 5, 2-5pm $25 includes a ticket to the 7pm reading 
Taking George Oppen's position that a poet proceeds more like an explorer or a mathematician than an expositor or theoretician, we will talk about what happens when we invert the lyric impulse to investigate the "shipwreck of the singular," that particular place where we do not know before we complete the poem. With close readings of work by Oppen and other Objectivists including Creeley, Zukofsky and Niedecker, we will rethink how and why we write, and talk about how writing may behave "more like findings or discoveries than aesthetic inventions, self expressions or opinions." This workshop is open to readers and writers at any level of interest and experience.Michelle Taransky's first book, Barn Burned, Then, was selected by Marjorie Welish for the 2009 Omindawn Poetry Prize. She lives in Philadelphia where she works at Kelly Writers House and teaches poetry at Temple University. |
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with Carolyn Brady Sunday, March 21, 1-4pm $40/$35 members (price includes cost of materials)
The "ATC" is a 2½ x 3½-inch art card made to be traded with other artists. Learn simple methods to create your own original small works of art from the organizer of the Milwaukee Artist Trading Card group. Even if you don't consider yourself an artist, you can use collage techniques to make ATCs for display, gifts or trading. You'll also learn the basics of trading etiquette and where to trade locally and on-line.Students should feel free to bring their own favorite decorative papers, rubber stamps and small collage images to personalize their work. Carolyn Brady dabbled in drawing, painting, collage, needlework, and other traditional arts since childhood, before finally discovering that she could combine all these together through mixed media art. Her current obsessions include Artist Trading Cards (ATCs), art quilts, and small assemblages. She teaches classes on ATCs, altered books and collage; organizes of the Milwaukee ATC group; and serves on the judging panel for the mixed media & altered art division of IllustratedATCs.com. |
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with John Lehman Sunday, April 18, 1-4pm $35/$30 members
This workshop will walk you through the journey of taking your book or chapbook from an idea to a reality. In three hours you will learn how to best structure material, design a budget, prepare cover art and layout, obtain cover blurbs, choose a printer, market, get reviews and achieve distribution outside of your immediate area. Each step in this process is important and can determine a work's success. Planning ahead is key. This workshop will be tailored towards the specific needs of local authors who choose to self-publish their poetry or prose.John Lehman is the founder and original publisher of Rosebud, a national magazine of short stories, poetry and illustration. He is the poetry editor of Wisconsin People & Ideas as well as managing partner of Zelda Wilde Publishing and—with editors Andrea Musher and Marilyn Taylor—for three years published the free, street-quarterly Cup of Poems and A Side of Prose. He also originated the Prairie Fire Poetry Quartet which includes Shoshauna Shy, Robin Chapman, Richard Roe and John Lehman. His latest venture is an interactive website called Cool Plums. John was a finalist for the Wisconsin Poet Laureate position in 2004 and again in 2008. Dramatic readings of his plays, A Brief History of My Tattoo, The Jane Test and The Writer's Cave have been presented in Milwaukee and Madison. John's collections of poetry include Acting Lessons, Shrine of the Tooth Fairy, Dogs Dream of Running and Shorts: 101 Brief Poems of Wonder and Surprise. His latest nonfiction books are America's Greatest Unknown Poet: Lorine Niedecker, Reminiscences, Photographs, Letters and Her Most Memorable Poems and Everything is Changing: How to Gain Loyal Customers and Clients Quickly. He publishes short stories under the name Jack Lehman. |