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SUMMARY:Finding Voice Through Dialogue with Carmen Tafolla
DESCRIPTION:Literary Masters Lecture Series\nTue\, Jul 7 & 14\n6:30-8pm CT via Zoom\nNonmember: $90; Member: $75; Student/Educ/Mil: $63\n*EARN CPEs; TWO SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE\n \n \n  \nRhythm\, pacing\, vocabulary\, slang\, and tone all shape how someone speaks. Whether you’re looking to refine your novel-in-verse or craft more impactful dialogue in your poetry or prose\, mastering dialogue is a powerful way to create more vivid\, compelling storytelling.   \nAward-winning author of more than 40 books\, Dr. Carmen Tafolla presents a two-part Master Class focused on shaping characters’ voices\, so they reflect depth\, individuality\, and authenticity. In session one\, we will explore examples of compelling dialogue and review useful tools\, patterns\, and exercises that can be used long after the lecture ends. Participants should bring some of their writing to class and be prepared to apply the techniques from the first session to their work. In the second session they can expect to share and discuss their revisions.  \nThis lecture is open to writers of all skill levels 18+. \nStudents will leave this course with the following:\n\nAn understanding of the elements of effective dialogue\nStrategies for mastering the art of dialogue writing\nIdeas on how dialogue can provide writers with insights into themselves and their characters\n\n\n Dr Carmen Tafolla is a storyteller\, professor emeritus\, performance artist\, and award-winning author of more than 40 books and hundreds of poems and performance pieces. The 2015 State Poet Laureate of Texas\, and San Antonio’s first and inaugural City Poet Laureate\, she is the recipient of numerous awards and distinctions\, including seven International Latino Book Awards; an Américas Award\, presented to her in 2010 at the Library of Congress; three Tomás Rivera Book Awards; the Charlotte Zolotow; the Art of Peace; Top Ten Books for Babies (by the Fred Rogers Corporation 2010)\, and has been recognized by the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies for work which “gives voice to the peoples and cultures of this land.” \nHer latest book\, Warrior Girl\, received a starred review in Publishers’ Weekly\, and was a finalist for the Jane Addams Award. \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/finding-voice-through-dialogue/
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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SUMMARY:Finding the Fire: Revising and Revisioning the Poem
DESCRIPTION:Literary Masters Lecture Series\nTue\, Aug 11 & 18\n6:30-8pm CT via Zoom\nNonmember: $90; Member: $75; Student/Educ/Mil: $63\n*EARN CPEs; TWO SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE\n \n \n  \nWant to turn your cold first draft into a hot work of literary art?  Your first draft is the fodder. Your revision process applies the heat. The outcome is one blazing poem. Join former San Antonio and Texas Poet Laureate Laurie Ann Guerrero for a workshop where she walks us through her process for refining her poems. \nIn this two-part lecture\, Laurie Ann Guerrero will offer insight into her process of revising and revisioning poems—listening for urgency\, clarifying imagery\, and taking creative risks. Participants will learn her revision sequence and then participants will each workshop one short poem of their own in an atmosphere of generous\, serious attention. Participants are encouraged to bring a poem (no longer than one page) to revise on the spot. \nThis lecture is open to writers of all skill levels 18+. \nIn this lecture\, students will leave with the following:\n\nLearn revision techniques that re-envision their work\nRevise one piece of their own written work on the spot\nLeave this lecture with revision tools that can be used at home\n\n\nPoet\, essayist\, and visual artist\, Laurie Ann Guerrero was born and raised in the Southside of San Antonio and is the author of REDWORK\, winner of the 2025 Autumn House Poetry Award\, forthcoming in October 2026. Poet Laureate of San Antonio (2014-16) and Texas (2016-2017)\, her award-winning collections\, along with a volume of new & selected poems\, include Babies under the Skin (Panhandler 2008)\, A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying (University of Notre Dame Press 2013)\, A Crown for Gumecindo (Aztlan Libre Press 2015)\, and I Have Eaten the Rattlesnake: New & Selected Poems (TCU Press 2021). Guerrero holds degrees from Smith College and Drew University. She is an Associate Professor and the Writer-in-Residence at Texas A&M University-San Antonio where she teaches writing\, cultural\, and gender studies. She is currently at work on a novel. \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/finding-the-fire/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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