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SUMMARY:Delving into the Levant: Inspiration from International Poets with Veronica Golos
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday(s)\, June 4\, 11\, 18\, & 25\, 2025 from 6:30-8:30 pm CDT\, via Zoom \nNonmember: $200; Member: $170; Student/Educ/Mil: $140 \n*EARN CPEs\nTWO SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE\n \n\nIn a time of worldwide strife and disconnection\, poetry reacquaints us with humanity in a way that transcends borders\, time zones\, and languages. Join master poetry teacher Veronica Golos on an international poetry tour. Next stop: the Middle East!  \nIn this four-week generative poetry workshop\, we will read\, discuss deeply\, and draw our inspiration from foundational poets Mahmoud Darwish (Palestine)\, Etel Adnan (Lebanon)\, Saadi Youssef (Iraq)\, and contemporary Iranian-American poet Solmaz Sharif.  We will explore each poet’s craft tools and apply these techniques to our work. Participants will receive a packet with poems and suggestions for developing their writing.  \nThis class is open to writers of all skill levels 18+. \nBy the end of the class\, students will have the following:  \n\nStudy and analyze the work of 4 Middle Eastern poets\nWrite poems that follow the selected poet’s structure and theme\nReceive on-the-spot feedback for written work \n\n\n \nVeronica Golos is the author of four poetry books: GIRL\, awarded the Naji Naaman Honor Prize in 2019; Rootwork\, winner of the 2016 Southwest Book Design Award in Poetry; Vocabulary of Silence\, a 2011 New Mexico Book Award winner that was translated into Arabic\, Spanish and Persian; and A Bell Buried Deep\, a Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize winner. She teaches poetry for Hugo House\, Gemini Ink\, and SOMOS. She reviews poetry books for Tupelo Press and works as a manuscript editor. She lives in Taos\, New Mexico\, with her husband\, David Pérez. \nLearn about Cancellation & Refund Policies at https://geminiink.org/registration/
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/delving-into-the-levant/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Poets & Coffee with Alexandra van de Kamp
DESCRIPTION:Join Gemini Ink’s Executive Artistic Director\, Alexandra van de Kamp\, for an informal craft conversation about what’s happening right now in the world of poetry. \nWe’ll make the coffee. You bring a friend and enjoy a seat in the company of your peers.  \nAlexandra will share some of the poems she’s been reading and discuss a selection of contemporary poets she believes are lighting up the page and stage. Then\, we’d love to hear from you about the poems you’ve been reading and why poetry matters. \nYou’ll benefit from a welcoming poetic community and leave with a bundle of new poems to explore and generative prompts to fuel future writing.  \n\n​​Alexandra van de Kamp is the Executive Director for Gemini Ink\, San Antonio’s Writing Arts Center. Her third book of poems\, Ricochet Script\, was published by Next Page Press in 2022. ​​Her previous full-length collections include: Kiss/Hierarchy (Rain Mountain Press 2016) and The Park of Upside-Down Chairs (CW Books 2010). She has also published several chapbooks\, including A Liquid Bird Inside the Night (Red Glass Books 2015) and Dear Jean Seberg (2011)\, which won the 2010 Burnside Review Chapbook Contest. Her poems have been published in journals nationwide\, such as The Cincinnati Review\, Connecticut Review\, The Texas Observer\, and Denver Quarterly.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/poets-coffee-with-alexandra-van-de-kamp/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Alexandra van de Kamp":MAILTO:avandekamp@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20241002T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20241002T210000
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SUMMARY:Delving into the Celtic Isles: Inspiration from International Poets with Veronica Golos
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays\, Oct 2\, 9\, 16 & 23\, 6:30-9pm CST\, via Zoom\nInstructor: Veronica Golos\nNonmember: $155; Member: $130; Student/Educator/Military $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nTWO SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE\n \n  \nIn a time of worldwide strife and disconnection\, poetry reacquaints us with humanity in a way that transcends borders\, time zones\, and languages. Join master poetry teacher Veronica Golos on an international poetry tour. Next stop: Celtic Isles!  \nIn this four-week generative poetry workshop we will explore rhythm\, rhyme\, humor\, and the rich history of celtic ancestry with four Irish poets: Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill\, Medbh McGuckian\, Eavan Boland\, and Seamus Heaney. We will read deeply each week\, explore each poet’s craft tools\, and apply these techniques to our work. Participants will receive a packet with poems and suggestions for developing their writing.  \nThis class is open to writers of all skill levels 18+. \nBy the end of the class\, students will have the following:  \n\nStudy and analyze the work of 4 contemporary poets\nWrite poems that follow the selected poet’s structure and theme\nReceive on-the-spot feedback for written work \n\n\nVeronica Golos is the author of four poetry books: GIRL\, awarded the Naji Naaman Honor Prize in 2019; Rootwork\, winner of the 2016 Southwest Book Design Award in Poetry; Vocabulary of Silence\, a 2011 New Mexico Book Award winner that was translated into Arabic\, Spanish and Persian; and A Bell Buried Deep\, a Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize winner. She teaches poetry for Hugo House\, Gemini Ink\, and SOMOS. She reviews poetry books for Tupelo Press and works as a manuscript editor. She lives in Taos\, New Mexico\, with her husband\, David Pérez.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/delving-into-the-celtic-isles/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Funny Bones: Craft a Calavera Poem with San Antonio Legend Anthony Flores
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, October 1 & 8\, 2024\, 6:30-8:30pm CST\, in-person at Gemini Ink\nInstructor: Anthony Flores\nNonmember: $110; Member: $95; Student/Educator/Mil $75 \nExplore the comedic and poetic mischief of creating a calavera poem in honor of Día De Los Muertos. A calavera is a traditional form of poetry from Mexico that uses satire to create humorous and lighthearted rhyming poems about the living.  \nThis form explores the living through the lens of death (Calavera is Spanish for “skull”)\, which can provide catharsis and deep reflection on impermanence. Calaveras can be written to address rich people in business\, famous people\, family\, friends\, and even government officials. \nIn this two-session workshop led by Anthony “The Poet” Flores\, we will learn the history of the traditional Mexican calavera poem; compose our own Day Of The Dead creations; and apply literary devices\, such as irony\, rhyme\, and repetition\, to take our piece to the next level. We will leave the workshop with a list of places to read our new poems around town during the holiday celebration. \nThis course is open to writers of all skill levels\, 18+.  \nStudents will leave this workshop with the following: \n\nThe first draft of a calavera poem\nExposure to literary devices and structures\nInsight into a historical and culturally significant poetic form \nA list of places to read and share your poetry\n\n\nAnthony “The Poet” Flores is a three-time San Antonio Grand Slam Poetry Champion who has represented the city six times at the National Poetry Slam. His performances include HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and Lincoln Center. He currently judges the San Antonio Public Library’s Young Pegasus Poetry Contest. Anthony is the founder of The University of Spoken Word and authored CINCUENTA: 50 Poems Celebrating Half A Century Of Life.  \n\nParking at Gemini Ink\nGemini Ink offers free parking along the back wall of our downtown offices. Please access this parking lot from Augusta St and first park in any of the 12 spots along the back wall. Only when these 12 spots are full do we ask that you park elsewhere in our lot. We now rent our offices from UTSA and are collaborating with them to create a secure and accessible parking lot for our community of writers and readers.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/funny-bones-craft-a-calavera-poem/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240622T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240622T130000
DTSTAMP:20260413T063043
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SUMMARY:The Poet Speaks with Amanda Eke
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, June 22\, 2024 10am-1pm CST\, via Zoom\nInstructor: Amanda Eke\nNonmember: $100; Member: $85; Student/Educator/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\n \n  \nRhythm\, dynamic words\, dramatic flow–these are some of the core elements of spoken word poems. But what if you infuse this type of poetry with aspects of storytelling and other oral traditions? This cross-genre approach to writing and performance can open us up to a whole new art form. \nThe goal of this one-day workshop is to engage in a unique combination of personal story and poetry. We will start by learning about Nigerian and Igbo oral storytelling traditions of rhyme and verse. Then we’ll fuse this storytelling with the contemporary art of spoken word to create our own poems. Theater and choral reading techniques will also be covered to help students prepare poems for stage performance. \nThis course is open to writers of all skill levels\, 18+. \nBy the end of the class students will have:  \n\nNew strategies for incorporating storytelling and other oral traditions into crafting spoken word pieces\nExperimentation with beats and rhymes\n1 drafted spoken word poem\n\nRead Amanda’s Writer’s Desk Q&A!\n\nAmanda Eke is an award-winning Nigerian American Artist\, Poet\, Filmmaker\, Educator and Scholar. A Fulbright and UN Award winner and author\, she uses both her love for writing and music to address socio-political issues\, and contemporary culture prevalent in society today. Amanda has lived and worked with young adults in Malta\, Nepal\, United States and Nigeria.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-poet-speaks-with-amanda-eke/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240404T203000
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SUMMARY:Poetry for Beginners with Jonathan Fletcher
DESCRIPTION:Thursdays\, April 4\, 11\, 18 & 25\, 2024\, 6:30-8:30pm CST\, In person at Gemini Ink\nInstructor: Jonathan Fletcher\nNonmember: $135; Member: $115; Student/Educator/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE\n  \nCLASS FULL. To have your name added to the waitlist\, email joshua@geminiink.org. \nHave you ever wanted to try your hand at poetry but didn’t know where to start? Or are you a newbie poet who’s ready to learn more about the genre? If so\, this National Poetry Month workshop is for you!  \nIn this four-week class\, we will review the history of poetry\, study contemporary poets and their craft\, and review different poetic forms\, including prose\, lists\, lyrical and narrative\, and more. Using these texts and forms for inspiration\, we will write and give poetic form to our own experiences and dreams. Participants will receive light feedback and resources to keep them writing.  \nThis course is open to beginning poets or anyone who wants to try poetry for the first time\, 18+. \nStudents will leave this class with: \n\nKnowledge of contemporary poetry and craft tools\nDrafts of work generated from class readings\, discussions\, and prompts\nResources and materials to further their own study and poetic work\n\n\nOriginally from San Antonio\, Texas\, Jonathan Fletcher holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Columbia University School of the Arts.  He has been published in The Adroit Journal\, Arts Alive San Antonio\, FlowerSong Press\, riverSedge\, and The Thing Itself. He has served as a Columbia Artist/Teacher for iHOPE\, a specialized school for students with traumatic brain injury\, as well as a poetry editor for Exchange\, Columbia’s literary magazine forincarcerated writers and artists. Currently\, he serves as a Zoeglossia Fellow. \n\nParking at Gemini Ink\nGemini Ink offers free parking along the back wall of our downtown offices. Please access this parking lot from Augusta St and first park in any of the 12 spots along the back wall. Only when these 12 spots are full do we ask that you park elsewhere in our lot. We now rent our offices from UTSA and are collaborating with them to create a secure and accessible parking lot for our community of writers and readers.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/poetry-for-beginners-with-jonathan-fletcher/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240330T120000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flurry with Typewriter Rodeo!
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, March 30\, 2024 10am-12pm CST\, in person at Gemini Ink\nNonmember: $115; Member: $100; Student/Educator/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE\n  \nCLASS FULL. To have your name added to the waitlist\, email joshua@geminiink.org. \nGet your creative juices flowing for National Poetry Month 2024 with Typewriter Rodeo!\nWhether you’re a poet or not\, this workshop has something for everyone\, including a room full of typewriters to play with. Clacking away on those keys with no way to correct your mistakes is freeing and just darn fun! \nIn this one-day\, fast-paced workshop\, you’ll write between 12 to 21 short poems in less than 2 hours. Yes\, really! And\, along the way\, discover a bit more about the creative voice that’s been waiting inside you\, patiently\, to peek out. Participants will respond to a wide range of highly creative prompts and generate new poetry. The techniques we’ll learn apply to crafting poetry\, stories\, and even non-fiction (you need a voice for that\, too). \nThis course is open to writers of all genres and skill levels\, 16+. \nStudents will leave this class with the following: \n\n12-21 new poems\n3 techniques to spark your writing at any point (hey there\, writer’s block)\ntypewriter experience (oh yeah)\n\n \n\nSean Petrie & Rebecca Bendheim are part of the nationally renowned Typewriter Rodeo\, where they’ve written thousands of poems for strangers on the spot\, and do weekly radio poems for NPR. Both have MFAs in Writing for Children from Vermont College of Fine Arts\, are writing teachers (Sean at UT\, Rebecca at Trinity Episcopal School)\, and authors. Sean’s books include Typewriter Rodeo\, the award-winning Pet Poems (also not just pets)\, and the Jett Ryder series for kids. Rebecca is represented by Patricia Nelson and has multiple books in the works. \n\nParking at Gemini Ink\nGemini Ink offers free parking along the back wall of our downtown offices. Please access this parking lot from Augusta St and first park in any of the 12 spots along the back wall. Only when these 12 spots are full do we ask that you park elsewhere in our lot. We now rent our offices from UTSA and are collaborating with them to create a secure and accessible parking lot for our community of writers and readers.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/poetry-flurry-with-typewriter-rodeo/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240221T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240221T203000
DTSTAMP:20260413T063043
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Mag Gabbert
DESCRIPTION:A Free Monthly Online Lecture Series from WritingWorkshops.com & Gemini Ink\nWednesday\, February 21st\, 2024 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\n\nRSVP\nUp Next: Poet & Essayist Mag Gabbert and her poetry collection\, SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS. This discussion will be moderated by poet Séamus Fey.\nABOUT SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS\n\n“This bewitching debut delivers everything the title promises and more.” –Electric Literature \nIn SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS\, which was selected by Kathy Fagan as the winner of the 2021 Charles B. Wheeler Prize in Poetry\, Mag Gabbert redefines the bestiary in fiery\, insistent\, and resistant terms. These poems recast the traumas of her adolescence while charting new paths toward linguistic and bodily autonomy as an adult. Using dreamlike\, shimmering imagery\, she pieces together a fractured portrait of femininity—one that electrifies the confessional mode with its formal play and rich curiosity. Gabbert examines the origin of shame\, the role of inheritance\, and what counts as a myth\, asking\, “What’s the opposite of a man? / A woman? A wound? The devil’s image?”\n\n  \nABOUT MAG GABBERT\nMag Gabbert is the author of SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS (Mad Creek Books\, 2023)\, which was selected by Kathy Fagan as the winner of the 2021 Charles B. Wheeler Prize in Poetry; the chapbook The Breakup\, which was selected by Kaveh Akbar as the winner of the 2022 Baltic Writing Residencies Chapbook Award; and the chapbook Minml Poems (Cooper Dillon Books\, 2020). Her awards include a Discovery Award from 92NY’s Unterberg Poetry Center\, a Pushcart Prize\, and fellowships from the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop\, Idyllwild Arts\, and Poetry at Round Top. Mag’s work can also be found in The American Poetry Review\, The Paris Review Daily\, Copper Nickel\, Guernica\, Poetry Daily\, and elsewhere. Mag has an MFA from UC Riverside and a PhD from Texas Tech. She lives in Dallas\, Texas and teaches at Southern Methodist University. \nABOUT S.FEY\nS. Fey (they/he) is a Trans writer living in LA. Currently\, they are the poetry editor at Hooligan Magazine\, and co creative director at Rock Pocket Productions. Their debut poetry collection\, decompose\, is out with Not a Cult Media. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review\, Poet Lore\, The Sonora Review\, and others. They love to beat their friends at Mario Party. Find them online @sfeycreates.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-mag-gabbert/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230912T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230912T203000
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SUMMARY:Weaving Across Languages: A Poetry Workshop with Octavio Quintanilla
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, Sept 12\, 19 & 26\, 2023 6:30pm-8:30pm CST\, Hybrid (in-person at Gemini Ink and online via Zoom)\nInstructor: Octavio Quintanilla\nNonmember: $145; Member: $125; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n\n  \n\nSlang\, dialects\, common expressions\, codeswitching\, and every variation of language from across the world. Translanguage captures the rich variety of how people express themselves. It taps into culture\, family\, all the places we’ve lived\, and our own linguistic quirks. \nIn this three-session workshop\, participants will study the poetry of writers who use translanguaging to infuse their work with a unique voice. Participants will identify and explore all of the languages that are part of who they are\, and use prompts to write poems that weave in their linguistic identity. This workshop will also include techniques for effective revision and editing.  \nThis course is open to writers of all genres and skill levels\, 18+. This course does not require fluency in more than one language\, but multilingual students are highly encouraged to register. \nIn this course\, students will: \n\n\n\nExplore variations of language \nLearn techniques for applying translanguaging to your own work\nGenerate new poems and receive feedback for revision\n\n\n\n\nOctavio Quintanilla is the author of the poetry collection\, If I Go Missing\, the founder and director of the literature & arts festival\, VersoFrontera\, publisher of Alabrava Press\, and former Poet Laureate of San Antonio\, TX. His Frontextos (visual poems) have been published and exhibited widely. His new poetry collection\, The Book of Wounded Sparrows\, is forthcoming from Texas Review Press in fall 2024. He teaches Literature and Creative Writing at Our Lady of the Lake University. \n\nParking at Gemini Ink\nGemini Ink offers free parking along the back wall of our downtown offices. Please access this parking lot from Augusta St and first park in any of the 12 spots along the back wall. Only when these 12 spots are full do we ask that you park elsewhere in our lot. We now rent our offices from UTSA and are collaborating with them to create a secure and accessible parking lot for our community of writers and readers.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/weaving-across-languages/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230308T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230308T203000
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SUMMARY:Reading Deeply\, Writing Deeply: 3 Women Poets Talk to the Gods with Veronica Golos
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays\, March 8\, 15 & 22\, 6:30-8:30pm\, CST\, via Zoom\nInstructor: Veronica Golos\nNonmember: $145; Member: $125; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n\n \nI absolutely loved the workshop with Veronica Golos. Even with a larger turnout\, she kept the community of the class intact. We had a great time reading deeply and sharing our own works. —Cathlin Noonan\, previous student of Reading Deeply\, Writing Deeply \nWhether a writer is talking directly to God or using religious reflection to try and make sense of humanity\, poetry is shrouded in spiritual mystery and is often used to explore both concrete and intangible concepts of a higher power. \nIn this three-week workshop\, we will study impactful poems from three women poets who invoke ideas of God or the gods. Louise Gluck’s book The Wild Iris enlists flowers from the garden of eden to help tell a story. Lucille Clifton’s “brothers” is an eight-poem conversation between an aged Lucifer and God. Natalia Toledo’s body of written work speaks to the Zapotec gods in three languages: Zapotec\, Spanish\, and English. \nClass readings and suggestions on how to write your own response poem to these poets (and these gods) will be shared prior to the workshop. \nParticipants will: \n\nStudy and analyze the work of 3 contemporary poets\nWrite poems that follow the selected poet’s structure and theme\nReceive on-the-spot feedback for written work\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVeronica Golos is the author of four poetry books: GIRL\, awarded the Naji Naaman Honor Prize\, 2019 (Beirut\, Lebanon); Rootwork\, winner of the Southwest Book Design Award in Poetry\, 2016; Vocabulary of Silence\, winner of the New Mexico Book Award\, translated into Arabic and Persian; and A Bell Buried Deep\, winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. Former co-editor of the Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art\, she is an instructor for SOMOS in Taos\, NM\, and Hugo House in Seattle\, WA. Plume Magazine recently featured her work-in-progress\, The Changing Same. Plume Poetry Feature: Veronica Golos. She lives in Taos\, New Mexico\, with her husband\, David Pérez.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/reading-deeply-writing-deeply-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230210T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230210T203000
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SUMMARY:Teen Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop with San Antonio Poet Laureate Andrea "Vocab" Sanderson
DESCRIPTION:Deadline to apply is Wednesday\, Feb 8!\nApply at bit.ly/MOSAICapp \nAttention High School Students! — Create an original work of visual art and write an original poem as you explore Ekphrastic Poetry for National Poetry Month. This special series of workshops are led by San Antonio’s Poet Laureate\, Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson\, in partnership with Gemini Ink. Open to High School Students. The workshop takes place in the MOSAIC Studio. Free to apply! \nWorkshop Schedule: \n\nFridays: February 10 – March 10\, 5:30 – 8:30pm \n\n\nSaturdays: February 11 – March 11\, 11am – 2pm \n\n\nOpening celebration: Friday\, April 7\, 2023 at 7:00pm \n\nAndrea “Vocab” Sanderson is a San Antonio native that has been performing for over twenty years. She’s the co-host of the consecutive award-winning 2nd Verse Open Mic. She has served as a Writer in Community for Gemini Ink since 2009. She’s the winner of the 2019 People’s Choice Award\, awarded by Luminaria Artist Foundation (formerly known as: Artist Foundation of San Antonio). Her debut book entitled: She Lives In Music\, published on Flower Song Press\, was released on Valentine’s Day 2020. Her album She Tastes Like Music is available on all music streaming platforms. On April 1st\, 2020\, Andrea became the first African American Poet Laureate of San Antonio 2020-2023. In May of 2020\, she was awarded Best Live Entertainment/Band Musician of the Year by the SEA Awards.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/ekphrastic-poetry-workshop-with-vocab/
LOCATION:Blue Star\, 116 Blue Star\, San Antonio\, Texas\, 78204
CATEGORIES:Workshop,Youth
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ORGANIZER;CN="Aminah Parham":MAILTO:aminah@contemporarysa.org
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DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230207T203000
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SUMMARY:Diving into the Weird with Leticia Urieta
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, February 7\, 14\, 21\, 28 & March 7\, 14\, 2023\, 6:30pm-8:30pm CST\, via Zoom\nInstructor: Leticia Urieta\nNonmember: $150; Member: $130; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \nClass Full. Email joshua@geminiink.org to add your name to the Wait List. \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \nAre you a storyteller? Have you ever considered how to push the boundaries of what storytelling could be? Ever wondered what blending genres of horror\, folktales and traditional stories\, as well as magical imaginings\, could mean for your work? In this generative writing workshop for adults 16+\, we will explore short stories\, poems and hybrid pieces that unlock the strange\, the magical\, the grotesque\, and the beautiful that we find in our everyday lives. You will have the opportunity to find the weird in the ordinary\, explore traditional stories and urban legends\, and reimagine realities. \nWho should take this class? Storytellers of all levels interested in poetry\, prose and genre-bending work who are eager to write about the weird. \nClass Participants will:\n \n\nDraft one or more new pieces based on sample readings\, class discussion\, and writing exercises.\nGain new insights into a diverse range of genres\, from horror to speculative imaginings\, to apply to their future writing.\nCome away with an expanded knowledge of contemporary genres.\nReceive feedback on your stories\, as well as suggestions on where to submit and share your work.\n\n\nLeticia Urieta (she/her/hers) is a Tejana writer from Austin\, TX. She is a teaching artist in the greater Austin community and the Regional Program Manager of Austin Bat Cave\, a literary community serving students in the Austin area\, as well as the co-director of Barrio Writers Austin and Pflugerville\, a free creative writing program for youth. Leticia is also a freelance writer. She is a graduate of Agnes Scott College and holds an MFA in Fiction writing from Texas State University. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Chicon Street Poets\, Lumina\, The Offing\, Kweli Journal\, Medium\, Electric Lit\, and others. Her chapbook\, The Monster\, was published in 2018 by LibroMobile Press. Her hybrid collection\, Las Criaturas\, was a finalist for the Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction 2022 from the Texas Institute of Letters and is out now from FlowerSong Press.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/diving-into-the-weird-with-leticia-urieta/
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230204T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230204T120000
DTSTAMP:20260413T063043
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SUMMARY:Undressing the Secrets to Writing About the Erotic in Poetry with John Olivares Espinoza
DESCRIPTION:Saturdays\, February 4 & 11\, 10am-12pm\, CST\, hybrid (via Zoom and in-person)\nInstructor: John Olivares Espinoza\nNonmember: $140; Member: $120; Student/Vet/Mil $75\n \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n\n \n\nWould you like to have a sexy poem for that special someone by Valentine’s Day? Or maybe you’d like to gift it to yourself? \nThis course will focus on how to write poetry about love\, eroticism\, and sex without crossing into cheesy\, hackneyed\, and pornographic red zones. Through examination of poetry ranging from ancient Greece to the best contemporary pieces\, we will study techniques poets use to create erotic imagery with skill and taste—without leaving out the spice– and use these tools to generate an original poem. Participants will receive constructive critique on their poems focused on how to apply and reinforce the techniques studied to capture love\, desire\, heartbreak\, or sex in an exciting and fresh way.  \nThe takeaways from this course: \n\nExperience breaking apart poems in order to collect techniques\, strategies\, and moves to use in your own work\nA selection of writing prompts to continue your momentum after the course\nA fully developed poem by Valentine’s Day\n\nWho is this workshop for? \nThis workshop is designed for writers of all skill levels. Prose writers are welcome. Given the nature of the subject matter and language used\, we suggest this workshop for participants 18 years or older. \nGet to know John ahead of his class at his Writer’s Desk.\n\nJohn Olivares Espinoza has degrees in creative writing from the University of California\, Riverside (BA) and Arizona State University (MFA). His poetry collection\, The Date Fruit Elegies\, was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award in Poetry. Other honors include a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation\, a Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans\, and first prize in the Swan Scythe Press Chapbook Contest. John’s poetry has appeared in Air/Light Magazine\, Alta Journal\, American Poetry Review\, New Letters\, ZYZZYVA\, and various anthologies. Follow Espinoza on Twitter @JohnEspinoza\, and Instagram @thepoetjohnespinoza. \n\nParking at Gemini Ink \nGemini Ink offers free parking along the back wall of our downtown offices. Please access this parking lot from Augusta St and first park in any of the 12 spots along the back wall. Only when these 12 spots are full do we ask that you park elsewhere in our lot. We now rent our offices from UTSA and are collaborating with them to create a secure and accessible parking lot for our community of writers and readers.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/writing-the-erotic-in-poetry/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230121T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230121T120000
DTSTAMP:20260413T063043
CREATED:20221212T195935Z
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SUMMARY:Musicality and the Long Poem with Allison Hedge Coke
DESCRIPTION:Saturdays\, January 21\, 28 &  February 4\, 10am-12pm\, CST\, offered via Zoom\nInstructor: Allison Hedge Coke\nNonmember: $140; Member: $120; Student/Vet/Mil $75\nThis course is open to writers of all skill levels. \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \nClass Full. Email joshua@geminiink.org to add your name to the Wait List.\nMusic is a powerful force that moves us. It is also a treasure chest of tools that can breathe life and potency into poetry.     \nIn this workshop led by American Book Award winner Allison Hedge Coke\, we will study musical genres\, influences\, and elements that will develop our knowledge of structure and momentum and our musical ear so that we can infuse our lines with lyricism\, sound\, and rhythm from beginning to end.  We will explore how playing with cadence\, tone\, and sonic delivery creates memorable lines and infuses a long poem with dynamic movement. \nIn this class you will :  \n\nGain an understanding of how musical structures can be used in long poetry\nLearn to apply elements of sound to make lines pop\nPrepare for publication/production/performance with musicality as lead line and base structure.\n\nAllison Hedge Coke will be featured on The Big Texas Read on Wed\, Jan 18th. We’re talking with Hedge Coke about her book-length poem\, Look At This Blue\, Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award. RSVP https://bit.ly/3A0XejH\n\nAllison Adelle Hedge Coke was born in Texas and raised in North Carolina\, Canada\, and on the Great Plains. Of mixed heritage\, she is a poet\, writer\, and educator. Though she left school to work in the fields as a child\, she later took advantage of tuition-free community ed classes at North Carolina State University while a field worker. She left North Carolina\, escaping domestic violence as a young mother\, and enrolled in former field worker retraining on the West coast when leaving manual labor due to disability. She then studied script\, performance and sound/light/film tech at Estelle Harmon’s Actor’s Workshop\, earned an AFAW in creative writing on the old Institute for American Indian Arts campus in Santa Fe\, attended two Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics Summer Writing Programs\, and earned an MFA from Vermont College (1995)\, where she stayed for post-grad work. \nShe is the author of the poetry chapbook Year of the Rat (1996); the full-length poetry collections Dog Road Woman (1997)\, Off-Season City Pipe (2005)\, Blood Run (2006 UK\, 2007 US)\, Streaming (2014)\, an illustrated (by Dustin Illetewahke Mater) special edition Burn (2017); and the memoir Rock\, Ghost\, Willow\, Deer (2004\, 2014). Streaming includes a full album recorded in the Rd Klā project period with Kelvyn Bell and Laura Ortman. One inclusion was selected by Motion Poems and Pixel Farms to be made into an animated film and several of the poems in Streaming also influenced the documentary project she directed\, Red Dust. \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/musicality-and-the-long-poem/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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