The Manzanita Writers’ Series will once again hold PoetryFest, a day-long event dedicated to the joys of poetry, on Saturday, April 18, 2015.
There will be two workshops led by noted poets Andrea Hollander and Matthew Dickman.
Tuition for the workshops is $30 each, or $50 for both. Readings and book signings are open to the public. Click here to register for the workshops.
Join Andrea Hollander from 10 a.m. to noon for a workshop “Image and Imagination” on generating new writing. In this workshop, students will begin with the notion of image and take the kind of risk that has the potential to unleash the imagination in unanticipated ways. Please come with an open mind and a willingness to let go of control.
An award-winning poet and essayist, Andrea Hollander is author of four full-length poetry collections—most recently, Landscape with Female Figure: New and Selected Poems, 1982 – 2012, finalist for the 2014 Oregon Book Award in Poetry. She is also the editor of When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women. Her first poetry collection, House without a Dreamer, won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. Her poems and essays have appeared in many anthologies, college textbooks, and literary journals, and she has been featured at writers’ conferences and festivals throughout the United States, as well as in England and France. Hollander spent 22 years as the Writer-in-Residence at Lyon College, where she was awarded the Lamar Williamson Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Now a resident of Portland, Oregon, she teaches writing workshops at both The Attic Institute and Mountain Writers Series. Her website is andreahollander.net.
Matthew Dickman will lead a workshop, “Revise Your Life! Well, at least your poem…, from 1 to 3 p.m. In this workshop students will be using old drafts of poems to start a conversation on what to do when revising poems: how do we reimagine something we have lived with for a while? How do we reclaim a space for vision after the pen is put down and the paper put away? We will be sharing ideas and borrowing some from French Surrealists on up to current favorite poets. This will be a very hands-on couple hours and a lot of fun!
Matthew Dickman is the author of All-American Poem (American Poetry Review/ Copper Canyon Press, 2008), 50 American Plays (co-written with his twin brother Michael Dickman, Copper Canyon Press, 2012), and Mayakovsky’s Revolver (W.W. Norton & Co, 2012). He is the recipient of The Honickman First Book Prize, The May Sarton Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Kate Tufts Award from Claremont College, and the 2009 Oregon Book Award from Literary Arts of Oregon. His poems have appeared in McSweeny’s, Ploughshares, The Believer, The London Review of Books, Esquire Magazine and The New Yorker among others. Matthew Dickman is the Poetry Editor of Tin House Magazine. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
At 3:15 p.m., Andrea Hollander and Matthew Dickman will read from their latest collections and sign books.
Tuition for the workshops is $30 each, or $50 for both. Readings and book signings are open to the public.
Click here to register for the workshops. Students can either register and pay online, or download a registration form to mail in with their payment.
For further information contact Phyllis Mannan at phmannan@gmail.com