Tebot
Bach Series
Additionally, Tebot Bach sponsors poetry readings and writing workshops for schools Kindergarten through college and marginalized venues such as homeless shelters, battered women's shelters, nursing homes, senior citizen daycare centers, hospitals, AIDS hospices, and correctional facilities.
Participating poets include:
John Balaban, M.L. Liebler, Patricia Smith, Dorianne Laux, Laurence Lieberman, Richard Jones, Arthur Sze, and Carol Moldaw.
Photographer: Bob Lanphar | Webmaster: Tom Thomas
Reading
Friday, August 27th, 2010 - 8:00 p.m.
Open reading sign up at 7:30 p.m.
Gail Wronsky
Gail Wronsky is the author of Poems for Infidels (Red Hen Press); Dying for Beauty (Copper Canyon), a finalist for the Western Arts Federation Poetry Award; The Love-talkers (Hollyridge Press); Again the Gemini are in the Orchard (New Poets Series); and Dogland (Alderman Press, University of Virginia). Her translation of Alicia Partnoy’s poems Volando Bajito was published by Red Hen Press, and she is the coauthor with Molly Bendall of two books of “cowgirl” poetry: Calamity and Belle, A Cowgirl Correspondence and Dear Calamity, Love Belle. Blue Shadow Behind Everything Dazzling, a chapbook of poems about India where she lived for several months in 2006, was published by Hollyridge Press in 2009. Bling & Fringe: The L.A. Poems, coauthored with Molly Bendall, was published by What Books in 2009. In October 2010 What Books will release her newest book of poems, So Quick Bright Things, a bilingual edition with translations by Alicia Partnoy.
Gail’s poems and essays have appeared in many journals, including Volt, Pool, Runes, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Antioch Review, Boston Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Santa Monica Review, Laurel Review, Crazyhorse, Burnside Review, Lafovea, and Pistola.Her work has also appeared in anthologies, including Poets Against War (Nation Books), The Poet’s Child (Copper Canyon), A Chorus for Peace (University of Iowa Press) and Grand Passion:The Poetry of Los Angeles and Beyond.
She has an MFA from the University of Virginia, a Ph.D. from the University of Utah, and is Director of Creative Writing and Syntext (Synthesizing Textualities). She lives in Topanga Canyon.
Workshop
Saturday, August 28th, 2010
Registration for the workshop is $85 for all day with afternoon poem critiques
$55 for morning audit of lecture only
$75 for all day audit with no critique of poem.
Pleasure and Pain in the Lyric Poem
Participants will examine poems by Sappho, Basho, Keats, Dickinson, then looking at a couple poems by David St. John and by Diane Seuss, winner of the Juniper Prize for her book, Wolf Lake, White Dress Blown Open in the morning lecture. Participants' poems will be critiqued in the afternoon session. Instructions will be sent to those who register.
Tebot Bach is scheduling 3 other workshops in our series. Each participant will receive a 10% discount for registering for two or more workshops. If you register for the next workshop scheduled for September 25th with Christopher Buckley, you will receive a 10% discount for both workshops.
To register email mifanwy@tebotbach.org and then send a check or money order made out to Tebot Bach with Wronsky in the notation line to:
Mifanwy Kaiser
20592 Minerva Lane
Huntington Beach, CA 92646
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