To register for a workshop, email: workshops@ashevillewordfest.org. We will contact you with details.
A creative writing workshop that crackles with passion, fun, and spontaneity.
Facilitated by poet James Navé
In this collaborative workshop you spend the first half exploring the creative process by way of movement and improvisational word play. In the second half, you craft your discoveries of memories, ideas, concert images, and surprising word combinations into meaningful rough drafts worthy of polishing into stories and poems. Many in the workshop will volunteer to read their drafts out loud to great applause. Come ready to create!
James Navé is a poet, a performer, a writing teacher, an appreciative inquiry facilitator, and co-director of The Writing Salon, based in Taos, New Mexico, He is the author of an illustrated book of poems, The Road (Bookpartners, 1997). His works has appeared in The North Carolina Literary Review, The Asheville Literary Review, Summit Magazine, The Taos News, The Society of the Muse of the Southwest‚ literary journal Chokecherries (2000-03), and Heartstone Journal, published by Warren Wilson College‚ Environmental Leadership Center. In addition, he has memorized over 600 poems and brings more than twenty years of experience to the craft writing and performing poetry. From 1995-2003, he co-taught with Julia Cameron author of The Artist’s Way. Nave© holds an MFA in poetry from Vermont College.
With Rick Chess
Thinking Lyric
In this workshop, we'll look at how some short lyric poems /think/ through a subject, an experience, an idea. Lyric poem as an act of thinking rather than seeing/visually one's way through and into the subject. We'll look at several exemplary texts then try to start of a poem of lyric thinking of our own. 1 1/2 hours. 15 participants.
With Jeff Davis
In jazz, when a musician wants to change the color and feel of a composition, and move it into territory beyond the known and understood, he or she will often “go outside”, move out of the conventions of tonal structure for the piece, and transform it. It’s a mark, perhaps, of our alienation from our ecology, our oikos, home, that to speak authentically of the natural world, poets also must open up and move beyond the conventional tonal structures we find enshrined in the poetic canon. In this workshop, we’ll actually go out into the natural (if not quite wild) world to find ways to address the interaction of consciousness and world that move beyond metaphor, which too often just appropriates some apparent fact of the world as a trope of human rhetoric. We’ll look at things, feel them, smell them, dwell with them for a bit, and then try to speak for them – or from them. We’ll also look at poems by Ponge, Issa, Basho, and Rilke that have gone outside to help open our human eyes.
This workshop will be held at 11:00 AM, Saturday the 26th, in the UNCA Botanical Gardens. It will require 90 minutes, and be open to twelve participants.
Jeff Davis' first full collection, NatureS, Selected Poems 1972-2005 was published by New Native Press in 2006 (and selected as a “Notable Book&rdquo for the year by NC Poet Laureate Kay Byer), but he has also published in Lillabulero, Iron, Asheville Poetry Review,Nantahala Review, and other journals through the years. He's a regular contributor to Rapid River, an arts and culture monthly based in Asheville. With Sebastain Matthews, he produces the weekly radio show Wordplay, featuring local, regional, and national poets; it airs Sundays at 2:00 on Asheville's WPVM (103.5), and is available round the clock from the station's website. Since 2002 he's been on the Board of the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center.
With Allan Wolf
(For all ages)
Get ready for poetry with a punch! Author and performance poet Allan Wolf will take us on an entertaining and enlightening tour of the various worlds of poetry from Hip-Hop to Haiku and from Serious to Silly. Wolf, who has hundreds of poems committed to memory, will read, recite, and sing a bardic blend of his original works and the works of other popular poets. Come find out who puts the "Oh!" in Poetry, who puts the coco in the coconut tree, and who puts the La in the La Dee Dee.
Date: Saturday, April 26, 2008
Time: 2:00 PM
Location: Spellbound Children's Bookstore, seating is limited so get there early.
To register for a workshop, email: workshops@ashevillewordfest.org. We will contact you with details.