Festival Workshop Participants Read in the Crest Theatre, Free and Open to the Public Audience, Open Mic for Registered Workshop Participants only.

 

POETRY OPEN MIC FOR REGISTERED WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS ONLY.

Holiday poetry reading and sing along at Sunrise Assisted Living Facility

We have all read and studied poems of great sorrow, deep love, and intellectual probing. But what about delight? How might a poem be served by writing from a place of delight, and what might we learn from the many poets who have reached for delight? In this workshop, we’ll look at how poets have translated delight into their work, how they have delighted in building a poem, and how they have employed craft elements to convey delight. After discussing various models, ranging from Issa to O’Hara, trying to suss out the “poetics of delight,” we will write and share our own poems using these models as prompts.

Join us December 7th us for a round-robin poetry reading in the beautiful Green Cay Wetlands Nature Preserve. We will spend a lovely afternoon reading poetry informally around the circle in the Green Cay Club House Community Room. Please bring up to four poems (favorites, or your own) to share with the group.

*Please bring a light wrap or jacket as the room may be cold.

**Please be prompt as we will start to read at 12:30.

EVENT CANCELLED DUE TO IMPENDING STORM. SEE OUR DECEMBER 7 EVENT. Join us October 5th us for a round-robin poetry reading in the beautiful Green Cay Wetlands Nature Preserve. We will spend a lovely afternoon reading poetry informally around the circle in the Green Cay Club House Community Room. Please bring up to four poems (favorites, or your own) to share with the group.

*Please bring a light wrap or jacket as the room may be cold.

**Please be prompt as we will start to read at 12:30.

Join us to participate in the largest poetry reading in history! Saturday, September 24th, The Palm Beach Poetry Festival will be hosting our fifth annual open-mic in partnership with 100 Thousand Poets for Change.

This is a global happening taking place at the same time in over 800 venues in 115 countries! Poets will read and perform work simultaneously across the planet to promote social, political, environmental sustainability, and change, simultaneously across the planet. You are welcome to read your own work or your favorite poems by other poets. Between poetry readings, special guest musicians will play songs for peace.

Attendees are welcome to bring their own instruments to play or sing along during the closing jam. As in previous years, the event will be photographed by Blaise Allen and archived by Stanford University. Please invite your friends. There will be a Sign-up sheet when you arrive.

The American Rock Bar and Grill on the Intercoastal has a large private room that seats 200, great food and drinks offered on their Happy Hour menu during our entire event. The venue is handicapped accessible and the sound system is fabulous. Please bring a wrap or jacket for your comfort.

*Must be over 21 years old to attend.

The Palm Beach Poetry Festival invites all Palm Beach County high school students to send in one original poem. The winner will receive $200 and a pair of tickets to the Sizzling Spoken Word Performance Event featuring The Mayhem Poets: Mason Granger & Scott Raven. The four runners up will each receive $100 and a pair of tickets to Sizzling Spoken Word Performance Event.

• All winners receive a one-year subscription to Poets and Writers Literary Journal
• All of the prize-winning poems will be posted on the festival website: palmbeachpoetryfestival.org and will be included in press releases
• Prize winners will be invited to participate in exclusive photo-ops with the featured poets, for local press releases

ELIGIBILITY: Palm Beach County public and private high school students, grades 9-12

RULES:

1. Poems may be submitted October 1^st through December 2nd, 2016, as follows:
2. Submit one poem, 30 lines maximum, single-spaced, 12-point type.
3. Your name, address, phone number, email address, name of high school, teacher’s name, and grade level  must appear in the upper, right-hand corner of the page.
4. DEADLINE: Your poem must be emailed by midnight, December 2nd, 2016.
5. Send by email to PBPF1@aol.com (copy & paste poem into the body of email*);
6. *Attachments will not be opened and will be automatically disqualified.
7. All contest participants agree to be subjects of press releases and media stories about the contest and the festival.
8. In order to collect the prize, the winner must be present at the awards ceremony.
9. Your submission is an agreement that you will attend the Festival Awards Ceremony to read your winning poem on Monday, January 16^th , 2017 at 4:00 p.m.

Submissions that do not adhere to these rules will be refused. Keep a copy of your poem, as the original will not be returned.

Winners and runners up will be notified by January 1st, 2017.

DISTINGUISHED JUDGE:
Dr. Jeff Morgan, Chairman, Department of English, Lynn University, Boca Raton, Florida

For More Information about the Palm Beach Poetry Festival High School Poetry Contest, contact drblaiseallen@aol.com, or by phone: (561) 868-2063. Be prepared to leave a message.  Your call will be returned promptly.

Ask your high school principal, English teacher or Poetry Club Leader about the Palm Beach Poetry Festival High School Poetry Contest.

Visit: http://palmbeachpoetryfestival.org/other/hs_contest/winners to see the past winners and the winning poems!

Short introductory and organizational workshop session after Welcome Reception.

Participants and auditors join faculty and staff for meet and greet with refreshments and opening night announcements.

Palm Beach Poetry Festival High School poetry contest winners will pick up awards and participate in a reading of their winning poems.

Performance Poetry late evening event with Mayhem Poets, Scott Raven & Mason Granger, followed by sale and signing of books in the Fieldhouse at Old School Square.

Festival Favorite! all nine faculty poets share and discuss beloved poems that have been influential in their lives and in their writing. (Saturday)

Readings with Dorianne Laux, David Baker & Ginger Murchison, followed by book signing in the Festival Book Store, Ocean Breeze Room in the Crest Theatre Building.

Readings with Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Lynn Emanuel, & Sally Bliumis-Dunn, followed by book signing in the Festival Book Store, Ocean Breeze Room in the Crest Theatre Building.

Terrance Hayes – “The Craft of Obsession”

Martha Rhodes – “Subjective versus objective: Stanley Kunitz’s ‘Quinnapoxet'”

Each poet will give a 1/2 hour talk on an element of poetic craft. Readers of poetry will walk away with a greater appreciation of what goes into the making of a poem; writers will leave with tools to improve their craft. Event will take place in the Crest Theatre followed by a Q & A.

Each poet will give a 1/2 hour talk on an element of poetic craft. Readers of poetry will walk away with a greater appreciation of what goes into the making of a poem; writers will leave with tools to improve their craft. Event will take place in the Crest Theatre followed by a Q & A.

Tina Chang – “Hybrid Beast”

David Baker – “When I Have Fears”: On Consequence

Evening reading with Special Guest Poet Charles Simic, followed by book signing in the Festival Book Store, Ocean Breeze Room in the Crest Theatre Building.

Each poet will give a 1/2 hour talk on an element of poetic craft. Readers of poetry will walk away with a greater appreciation of what goes into the making of a poem; writers will leave with tools to improve their craft. Event will take place in the Crest Theatre followed by a Q & A.

Lynn Emanuel – “How and why do I put this page next to that page?”

Daisy Fried – “’…ice/is also great/And would suffice’*: What’s the Use of Coolness and Dispassion in Poetry?”

Readings with Tina Chang, Terrance Hayes & Martha Rhodes, followed by book signing in the Festival Book Store, Ocean Breeze Room in the Crest Theatre Building.

 

 

 

We are honored to have Charles Simic as our Special Guest for an Interview by David Baker, and his Gala Reading at the 13th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival.

 

 

 

 

Each poet will give a 1/2 hour talk on an element of poetic craft. Readers of poetry will walk away with a greater appreciation of what goes into the making of a poem; writers will leave with tools to improve their craft. Event will take place in the Crest Theatre followed by a Q & A.

Dorianne Laux – “The Brilliance of the Simple Line”

Carl Phillips- “Pattern Has a Way of Making Meaning”

The Gala is a fundraiser and celebration of all the poets at the festival, participants and featured poets. Admission is by invitation. 

Join us June 8th us for a round-robin poetry reading in the beautiful Green Cay Wetlands Nature Preserve. We will spend a lovely afternoon reading poetry informally around the circle in the Green Cay Club House Community Room. Please bring up to four poems (favorites, or your own) to share with the group.

*Please bring a light wrap or jacket as the room may be cold.

**Please be prompt as we will start to read at 12:30.

Save Wednesday, June 1st and join us as we share the love of poetry at our annual summertime poetry reading at Sunrise Assisted Living Facility. The festival’s poetry troupe will take to the mic to read poems of summer, heat, and blossoms. Our volunteers are also known to sing romantic songs of yesteryear.

Please bring 5 (single page) poems, your own or your favorites. Feel free to sing some golden oldie love songs related to the theme of summer, as this group really responds to the lyrics and poetry of music!

Sunrise always has a large audience to welcome us. I hope you will join us for this rewarding event.

This event will be held in the furthest building to the right of the Main Entrance at Sunrise Assisted Living, in the building called Brighton Gardens.

We often find ourselves stuck, staring at the page waiting for words to arrive. Sometimes they hide in a black hole inside our heads and refuse to come. But we can coax them out with a simple poetic device.

In this workshop, imagining the Poem, learn to lure the muse  and stretch your imagination.

Lenny DellaRocca has had more than 200 poems appear in more than 150 lit mags since 1980, including: Fairy Tale Review, Seattle Review, Poet Lore, Poem, Sun Dog and The Laurel Review. Chiron Review nominated him for a Pushcart Prize. He has new poems forthcoming in 2River View, Chiron Review and The Potomac: A Journal of Politics and Poetry. His chapbook, The Sleep Talker, was published by Night Ballet Press in November 2015.

 

With Professor Bonnie Bonincontri

James Franco gives a career-defining performance as the young Allen Ginsberg-poet, counter-culture adventurer, and chronicler of the Beat Generation-in Howl, the audacious film from Academy Awardr-winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. Franco as Ginsberg recounts the road trips, love affairs, and search for personal liberation that led to the most timeless, electrifying, and controversial work of his career: Howl. Pushing the limits and challenging the mainstream, the passionate and provocative Howl and its publisher found themselves on trial for obscenity, with prosecutor Ralph McIntosh (David Strathairn) setting out to have the book banned, while defense attorney Jake Ehrlich (Jon Hamm) fervently argues for freedom of speech and creative expression. The proceedings veer from the comically absurd to the passionate as a host of unusual witnesses (Jeff Daniels, Mary-Louise Parker, Treat Williams, Alessandro Nivola) pit generation against generation and art against fear in front of conservative Judge Clayton Horn (Bob Balaban).

Film runtime: 84 minutes

In support of local Universities that offer MFA degrees in poetry and creative writing, The Palm Beach Poetry Festival invites you to a special reading of local poets and their esteemed faculty members.

READERS

FIU Faculty:

Donna Aza Weir-Soley

Julie Marie Wade

 

Current MFA students:

Jan Becker

Ellene Glenn Moore (Leenie)

Megan Arlett

Monica Restrepo

Chazz Chitwood

Ariel Henriquez

 

Incoming MFA student (with undergraduate degree from FIU in English):

Clidiane Aubourg

 

FAU Faculty:

Becka Mara McKay

Susan Mitchell

 

FAU Students

Nico Cassanetti

Jeanette Geraci

Kira Geiger

Rebecca Jensen

Shari Lefler

Kathleen Martin

Kathryn McLaughlin

James White

 

 

Using original film clips and interviews, this film illustrates the 1950s social movement termed the Beat Generation. Disillusioned with post-World War II America, Beat Generation writers and painters came together because they felt mainstream America was becoming out of touch with humanity and the individual. In their interviews, Beats Allen Ginsberg,  Neal Cassady,  Jack Kerouac, and  Gregory Corso express their disdain for a society that defines success and happiness in terms of superior technology, cars, and clothing. Those individuals discuss the false conventionality of society and the dangerous world of shock treatments and conformity in which they found themselves. Their goal is to redefine this world to reflect the endless possibilities that characterize America.

The film’s director, Janet Forman  will join us post film via Skype for Q&A, and her long-time friend, Howard Roberts will be presenting the film. See more information at:  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0261558/

The film runs 58 minutes

We invite you to celebrate National Poetry Month and join us for a round-robin poetry reading in the beautiful Green Cay Wetlands Nature Preserve. We will spend a lovely afternoon reading poetry informally around the circle in the Green Cay Club House Community Room. Please bring up to four poems (favorites, or your own) to share with the group.

Please be prompt as we will start to read at 12:30. We suggest you bring a light wrap or jacket as the room may be cold.

 

Robert Kern says of Gary Snyder’s 1974 Pulitzer Prize-winning volume, Turtle Island, the poet manages to “to locate the self ecologically in its actions and interactions with its environment.” Departing from his fellow “beats” who wished to explore the sodden underbelly of American culture, Snyder propels the discussion of environmental conscious into a pressing and meaningful investigation. In this vein, we will assess our present ecological and environmental state through a workshop on the concrete image.

Kimberly Burwick MFA, is the author of four collections of poetry: Has No Kinsmen (Red Hen Press 2006), Horses in the Cathedral, winner of the Robert Dana Prize (Anhinga Press 2011), Good Night Brother, winner of the Burnside Review Prize, (Burnside Review Press 2014) and her forthcoming book Custody of the Eyes (Carnegie Mellon University Press 2017).  She teaches creative writing at Washington State University and at UCLA Extension. Originally from New England, she now lives in Moscow, Idaho with her husband and four-year-old son.

Kimberly holds a MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles, and a BA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

The Palm Beach Poetry Festival, in collaboration with the Astronomical Society of the Palm Beaches would like to invite you to an over the moon poetry reading! While observing the moon and stars, we will be reading poetry round robin. You are invited to bring up to three single-page poems on the subject of the sky, solar system: planets, moon and stars. The poems can be your own work, or your favorites of others and relating to the night sky.

While one poet is reading, other poets can view the night sky through the telescopes provided by the Astronomical Society in the Hagan Ranch Road Library Parking lot. We will provide LED flashlights to read your poems. This event will be held outside, if it is raining, or the sky heavy with clouds, we will reschedule the event at another time next year. We will start the event at sunset.

The Astronomical Society is composed of a group of individuals dedicated to the pursuit of observational astronomy and to the education of the general public on astronomy. During the observation sessions, members bring and use a wide variety of equipment, from binoculars and small refractors to 20-inch reflectors.

*Please bring a folding chair for your comfort. Feel free to bring a snack or beverage.

Bio: Dr. Stephen M. Schiff, is a life-long amateur astronomer and recently retired after teaching 41 years.  His most recent position was that of Planetarium Resource Educator at Poinciana Elementary Magnet School. Previous to that, Dr. Schiff served as the Astronomy Outreach Educator at the South Florida Science Museum.  He has given numerous astronomy lectures and workshops at colleges and libraries on Long Island. Dr. Schiff has attended teacher space camp, has been a member of the observatory staff at the Custer Institute Observatory and has participated in the LCROSS webcast at Kennedy Space Center.  He’s been awarded 8 educational grants to build space shuttle and space station simulators and a robotic observatory at his planetarium.  Currently, Dr. Schiff serves as President on the Board of Directors of the Astronomical Society of the Palm Beaches where he participates in community star parties in local parks and libraries. He is also a presenter for the NASA Night Sky Network and is a cruise speaker for Sixth Star Entertainment. His enthusiasm and expertise encourages all astronomy participants to discover for themselves the wonders of our spectacular universe.

Join us to share the love of poetry at our Valentine’s Day Reading at Sunrise Assisted Living Facility. Our poetry troupe will take to the mic to read poems of love and sing some romantic songs of yesteryear for the residents.

Please bring 5 (single page) poems, your own or your favorites. Feel free to sing some golden oldie love songs. This group responds to the lyrics and poetry of music!

This event will be held in the Brighton Gardens building farthest to the right of the Main Entrance.

To RSVP, contact Dr. Blaise Allen, Director of Community Outreach, at DrBlaiseAllen@aol.com.

The festival invites you to visit the WILD Exhibit in the Old School Square’s Cornell Art Museum to be inspired to submit a poem to the WILD EKPHRASTIC POETRY CONTEST, January 18-April 17, 2016.

Poets are invited to submit one poem maximum 30 lines, inspired by one of the selected works by Plein Air Palm Beach artists in the Exhibit. For Complete Guidelines, visit: https://www.palmbeachpoetryfestival.org/news/wild-contest/

 

Tickets for Public Events are on sale now!

For a Complete Schedule of Public Events, and to order tickets, visit the Delray Beach Center for the Arts, Crest Theatre Box Office, 51 North Swinton Avenue, Delray Beach, FL 33444, or call 561-243-7922, Extension 1, or you may purchase tickets online.

Individual Event Ticket Prices are: $15 General Admission, $12 for seniors, and $10 for students. Student Group discounts available for groups of ten or more.

Workshop Auditor and Participant Tuition includes admission to ticketed events.
Service charges apply for tickets purchased online.

“What is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding? It is the deepest part of autobiography.”[R.P. Warren]

Autobiography is the narrative of life’s experiences and narrative is the beginnings, middles and ends. So skipping the sagas and epics, perhaps, we focus on the dramatic and lyric, the ballads and songs –but always the story, the (auto) biographical. The beginning invites the participant  to sing (write) their own story (or another’s).

Noyes, “Highwayman,” reminds of the earliest of our exposures to narrative poem and a cluster of modern or contemporary poets are suggested as a possible rethinking or reawakening of narrative form. Poems like Robert Penn Warren’s “American Portrait – Old Style” and “Red Tail Hawk …” bring the personal, the (auto) biography into perspective. Dana Goia’s Can Poetry Matter and/or Sharon Old’s, The Very Art of Telling, essays bring a more contemporary focus on story and narrative poem. A time to revise the initial poem or sketch another.  John shares from his historical narratives.

JOHN CHILDREY is a native of Richmond, Virginia. He calls many places home as he lived as a youth in Richmond, Virginia, Littleton, North Carolina, Concrete,Washington, and Savannah, Georgia. Other homes include Charlottesville, and Lynchburg, Virginia, West Lafayette, Indiana, and since 1977 Coral Springs, Florida. A college and university professor since he was 24, his resume includes educational and literary presentations, some publications and lots of teaching experiences. In 1989, from the Florida Atlantic University’s Chair of Elementary Education he moved to the College of Humanities as Assistant Chair of English and then to the newly formed College of Liberal Arts where he was Chair and then various Associate Deans (in Liberal Arts and Arts and Letters). He retired in 2010 and then named Professor Emeritus in 2012.  John earned an MFA from Florida International University in 1994. In addition to reading and language arts education, he taught the literature of adolescents, grammar, metaphor, creative writing and American literature. At UVa George Garret published his first poem in 1962, and his first national poem was “Learning Rivers” in 1982 which became part of his Howardsville Series in “Poems from My Mother’s Scrapbook. (2012).” Shadow Words is a self-published volume from 1986. His Custer battle poems were published in a fanzine in 1996.  He is retired and slogging through a novel, “The Voyage of the [USS] Terror” that he dubs a naval “Cold Mountain.” In his spare time he buys and sells American Flyer and other toy trains.

COMMUNITY OUTREACH WORKSHOPS
One Day Workshops at Delray Beach Center for the Arts are held at 12:30 pm. Be sure to bring a sweater. The cost is $10 for these workshops. To RSVP for any of these poetic events, contact Dr. Blaise Allen, the Poetry Festival’s Director of Community Outreach, at DrBlaiseAllen@aol.com, or sign up for our e-blast list.

Join us for a round-robin open reading in the beautiful Green Cay Wetlands Nature Preserve. We will spend a lovely afternoon reading poetry round-robin style in Green Cay Club House Community Room. Please bring up to four poems (favorites, or your own) to share with the group. Please bring a light wrap or jacket as the room may be cold. Please be prompt as we will start to read at 12:30.

This event is free to everyone! Feel free to invite guests, we love an audience!

Green Cay Wetlands Community Room
Green Cay Preserve Nature Center
12800 Hagan Ranch Road, Boynton Beach, FL 33437

To RSVP, contact Dr. Blaise Allen, Director of Community Outreach, at DrBlaiseAllen@aol.com.

January 13, 2015
Bards of a Feather
12:30 pm
Green Cay Wetlands Community Room,
Green Cay Preserve Nature Center
12800 Hagan Ranch Road, Boynton Beach, FL 33437

HAIKU UNIVERSITY AT
MORIKAMI MUSEUM & GARDENS
with YADDYRA PERALTA
In this workshop, participants will learn about the history and structure of Japanese haiku with a direct focus on the translations of Robert Hass, former United States Poet Laureate and Special Guest Poet at the 12th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival. After discussing his translations of the three haiku masters, and their influence on Hass’s poetry, participants will take a short walk around the beautiful gardens at Morikami Museum where they will generate their own haiku or haiku-inspired image rich poems.  Participants are encouraged to share at the end of the session.

Please bring a pad and pen, and perhaps snippets of lines of poems (your own or others), bits of a dream, and lines from journal entries to enrich with mindful haiku-inspired imagery. Bring a wrap or light jacket as the auditorium can be cool at this time of year.

There is no charge for the workshop but participants must pay for entrance to the Morikami Museum and Gardens. Feel free to spend the day. The Cornell Cafe has wonderful authentic Japanese food. The gardens are lovely to stroll.

Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens – Auditorium
4000 Morikami Park Road in Delray Beach
(On the west side of Jog Road, just south of Linton Boulevard)

YADDYRA PERALTA, Assistant Director
Yaddyra Peralta is a poet who teaches writing and literature at Broward College and Miami Dade College. She has work forthcoming in Eight Miami Poets (Jai Alai Books) and Ghazals for James Foley (Hinchas Press). Her poems have also appeared in Ploughshares, Jai Alai, Abe’s Penny, Tigertail, The New Poet, and Hinchas de Poesia. In 2013, she was a Visiting Writer at the Betsy Hotel’s Writer’s Room in South Miami Beach, Florida and one of six collaborative Helen M. Salzberg Artists-in-Residence at Florida Atlantic University’s Jaffe Center for the Book Arts where she contributed to the collaborative artists’ book Conversation, Too (Extra Virgin Press).  Before becoming Assistant Director of the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, she attended workshops as a participant, an auditor, an intern, and, in 2013 to 2014, served as the festival’s Director of Social Media.

 

Let’s examine what a poem can do simultaneously: create a short narrative, invent original phrases, construct sparkling juxtapositions, lead to an epiphany, probe psychological depth, and sculpt elegant stanzas. Some poems sparkle with originality. Some sing with musicality and lines that breathe like arias. Others have a message that moves us deeply. The shape a poem makes invites us to read it. We will revisit the sonnet form to use in a modern way as well as various free verse strategies.

Christine will give a reading of her work, then discuss the shaping of some of those poems. She will share poems that have been shaped intentionally so that their form and structure enhance their meaning.

Let’s experiment with shape and form and dare to stray off the beaten path of free verse. Is it possible to open up poems and let them do things we have not imagined or allowed them to do before by shaping them in original ways? Is it possible to use a form such as sonnet to create a new vibrancy and intelligence in shaping poems? We will look at a few poems that accomplish these things and discuss strategies used.

Bring a poem or two for revision. Or if you prefer, you can start from scratch. If time we will share the poems in a cordial, supportive way.

CHRISTINE SWANBERG‘s books include TONIGHT ON THIS LATE ROAD (Erie St., 1984), INVISIBLE STRING (Erie St., 1990), BREAD UPON THE WATERS (UW:Whitewater, 1990), SLOW MIRACLE (Lake Shore, 1992), THE TENDERNESS OF MEMORY (Plainview Press, 1995), THE RED LACQUER ROOM (Chiron Press, 2001) and WHO WALKS AMONG THE TREES WITH CHARITY(Wind Publications, KY, 2005) and THE ALLELUIA TREE (Puddin’head Press, IL). Hundreds of her poems have appeared in many journals, most recently GARDEN BLESSINGS and BACK TO JOY. An interview appears in POET’S MARKET 2008. Christine is a writing teacher for museums, churches, arts councils, schools, conferences, and women’s organizations, and The Clearing in Door County, Wisconsin. Recent essays appear in WOMEN ON POETRY and WRITING AFTER RETIREMENT.

COMMUNITY OUTREACH WORKSHOPS
One Day Workshops at Delray Beach Center for the Arts are held at 12:30 pm. Be sure to bring a sweater. The cost is $10 for these workshops. To RSVP for any of these poetic events, contact Dr. Blaise Allen, the Poetry Festival’s Director of Community Outreach, at DrBlaiseAllen@aol.com, or sign up for our e-blast list.

Join us to hear acclaimed local, label signed recording artists as they discuss their lyric writing process and play original music: Max Markwell, Bill Hartman, Stephen Minotti, Maggie Baugh, Shawn Mallon, Aymber Daniel, Robert Bidney, Cassidy Diana, Kristen Spencer, Eric Muniz, Rich Guastella and other special guest musicians.

One-Day Workshop, October 10, 2015
“You can’t deny laughter, when it comes it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.” Pablo Neruda

Let’s write about it. Using laughter and various writing prompts, we will write a poem or two or a short prose piece. This is a chance to laugh and write. Additionally, bring one or more poems you like (except the form haiku), and some of your own work, and we will create something new from it. (Bring copies of poems for yourself only) This is an opportunity for experienced or novice writers.

Change is inevitable. Studies have shown that writing can relive stress, increase brain activity, create new neural connections enhance memory, and promote overall wellbeing. Writing, especially writing poetry, may help us manage better with changes or see things more clearly.

Could we erase some words and joyously leave something behind, as we head to the future? This workshop is an opportunity to find a continued (or new) path of joy, laughter, self-expression, and relaxion by writing what you may choose to share or shred.

CARA NUSINOV, B.Ed., PTP, is an collage artist, poet, teacher, leisure photographer, Co-Director of the Poetry Buffet Party, is a Poetry Therapy Practitioner, Certified Laughter Yoga Leader, has read poetry on NPR, and other venues. She originated the traveling Polka Dot Poetry Peacock sculpture anthology. Cara also conducts, The Writer Within Me Salons, where she prompts new and seasoned writers to write all about it, as she peddles poetry. She is the author of Unrequited Loves and Other French Kisses. She is the mother of two. Contact her on Facebook and she will be happy to “talk” to you.

COMMUNITY OUTREACH WORKSHOPS
One Day Workshops at Delray Beach Center for the Arts are held at 12:30 pm. The cost is $10 for these workshops. Be sure to bring a sweater. To RSVP for any of these poetic events, contact Dr. Blaise Allen, the Poetry Festival’s Director of Community Outreach, at DrBlaiseAllen@aol.com, or sign up for our e-blast list.

A reading by our Conference Faculty in the Ocean Breeze Room, Bookstore after the book signings.

Join us for a round-robin open reading in the beautiful Green Cay Wetlands Nature Preserve. We will spend a lovely afternoon reading poetry round-robin style in Green Cay Club House Community Room. Please bring up to four poems (favorites, or your own) to share with the group. Please bring a light wrap or jacket as the room may be cold. Please be prompt as we will start to read at 12:30.

This event is free to everyone! Feel free to invite guests, we love an audience!

Green Cay Wetlands Community Room
Green Cay Preserve Nature Center
12800 Hagan Ranch Road, Boynton Beach, FL 33437

To RSVP, contact Dr. Blaise Allen, Director of Community Outreach, at DrBlaiseAllen@aol.com.

Oct 7, 2015
Bards of a Feather
12:30 pm
Green Cay Wetlands Community Room,
Green Cay Preserve Nature Center
12800 Hagan Ranch Road, Boynton Beach, FL 33437

Join us to participate in the largest poetry reading in history! Saturday, September 26th, The Palm Beach Poetry Festival will be hosting our fifth annual open-mic in partnership with 100 Thousand Poets for Change. Visit our link with the central event site.

 

 

This is a global happening taking place at the same time in over 800 venues in 115 countries! Poets will read and perform work to promote social, political, environmental sustainability, and change, simultaneously across the planet. You are welcome to read your own work or your favorite poems by other poets. Please limit your poem to one page, bring up to two poems, we will alternate readers with musicians as time allows.

Between poetry readings, special guest musicians will play songs for peace. If you’d like to bring your instrument and play along, or sing, you are welcome. There will be a Sign-up sheet when you arrive. The event will be photographed and archived by Stanford University.

Bottega Wine Bar has a small stage in the back of the venue where we will take to the mic to read. The Bottega’s Happy Hour gastro-pub menu will be available.

*Must be over 21 years old to attend.

All workshops meet in designated virtual classrooms for a one-hour organization and introductions session.