UPCOMING EVENTS

In addition to the annual Festival in January, Palm Beach Poetry Festival partners with other non-profit organizations and schools to bring poetry into the lives of Palm Beach County residents year-round.

6th Annual HAIKU WORKSHOP, YADDYRA PERALTA
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens

In this workshop, you will review the basics of classical Japanese haiku, as well as several modern variations. The class will then use the incredible natural resource of Morikami itself to generate new haiku of your own as you stroll the beautiful gardens, and finally, you will have the opportunity to share your work with the group.

YADDYRA PERALTA is a poet and writer. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Jai-alai, Abe's Penny, Tigertail, Hinchas de Poesia, the Miami Poetry Collective's Cent Journal series, and Lies and Truth the poetry supplement to the Tabloid series accompanying Miami Art Museum's New Work Miami exhibition. In 2011, the Miami New Times featured her in their "100 Creatives" list.  She received her MFA in creative writing from Florida International University.

Admission to the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens is required for entrance to this workshop. Please bring a pad, pen, refreshment, and jacket, or throw, as the room can be quite chilly! Bring a camera and stroll the grounds all day! Many of us stay for lunch at the Cornell Cafe after if you wish to join us, you are more then welcome!

BORROW A POEM AND MAKE IT YOURS...Without Plagiarizing! with NINA ROMANO
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Old School Square Crest Theater
If you’re a poet and always write poetry or if you’re a writer, who has never dabbled in poetry before, now is your chance to write, write, write poems! This workshop will offer poets more experience in generating poems. Participants will also gain insights for a chapbook or a collection, currently a work-in-progress, or how to plan and devise one in future. If you’ve never written poetry but would like to attempt it—here’s a great opportunity to dive right in. Poetry writing tool aids fiction and non-fiction writers in a many ways including: the utilization of compression, language, rhythm, setting and tone.

NINA ROMANO earned an M.A. from Adelphi University and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Florida International University. She is the author of two poetry collections: Cooking Lessons from Rock Press, and Coffeehouse Meditations, from Kitsune Books. She has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is the co-author of Writing in a Changing World. Her latest poetry collection, She Wouldn’t Sing at My Wedding, is forthcoming from Bridle Path Press. Her short story collection, The Other Side of the Gates, will be published by Kitsune Books early 2013.
http://www.ninaromano.com
http://www.kitsunebooks.com
http://www.bridlepathpress.com
ninsthewriter@gmail.com

POETRY IS A PLACE, Visiting Poets: John Casquarelli and Uche Nduka
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Old School Square Crest Theater

The poet, John High, once wrote that “poetry has always served as a place for expression…a refuge for the mapping of language…looking at language itself as an unfolding of being.” From the ancients to the contemporary masters of poetic expression, the words and lines explore and expose the poem’s inner mechanisms and elusive mystery. In mapping the geography and music of language, we will travel together and make linguistic discoveries of time and meaning.

The focus of our workshop will be on the merging of the external world with the internal journey, and how our understandings or perceptions of time and place influence this union. We will read modern and postmodern poetry by poets from all the Earth’s continents, and discuss what these poets do with words, lines, and stanzas, with a sense of place and time in mind. After the workshop discourse, we will write using many of the writing techniques we discussed. We invite all writers to bring music or musical instruments to the workshop to be played/performed while they read their work for the class, though this is not a requirement. Today’s poetry is often a collaborative process with other art forms, and the use of these other art forms allow for the reinventing of the poetic language.

John Casquarelli is currently an English professor at Boricua College and Long Island University—Brooklyn Campus in New York. He received his MFA in Creative Writing at Long Island University. He was the recipient of the 2010 Esther Hyneman Award for Poetry. Casquarelli’s poetry has appeared in By the Overpass, Brooklyn Paramount, The International Rebecca West Society, Downtown Brooklyn, Sun’s Skeleton, Kinship of Rivers, Pulp, and Shamboree. His first collection of poetry, On Equilibrium of Song, is currently available by Overpass Books. John Casquarelli jcas888@yahoo.com

Uche Nduka is a poet, musician, and lecturer. In 1997, he was awarded the Association of Nigerian Authors Prize for Poetry. Nduka was a professor in African Literature at the University of Bremen (1995-2001; 2003-2007). He has nine volumes of poetry which include Chiaroscuro, If Only the Night, Heart’s Field, and Eel on Reef. His current volume, Ijele, is available by Overpass Books. Nduka edited the anthologies Poets in Their Youth and Und Auf den Strassen Eine Pest. His poetry has been translated into German and Dutch.

Here's the two part interview of Uche and John discussing poetry:
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnaccCr6Ahc
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D70hIvsOzA

Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Alzheimer's Poetry Project

Who, ME?  THE USE OF PERSONA IN POETRY with MARY GALVIN, Ph.D
Sunday, September 9, 2012 -- 1:00 pm
Old School Square Crest Theater

2nd ANNUAL 100K POETS FOR CHANGE GLOBAL EVENT
Saturday, September 29, 2012 1:00 pm - closing
Bottega Wine Bar at The Promenade, 4455 Lyons Road Coconut Creek, FL 33073