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A TRIBUTE TO JANE KENYON
with Donald Hall and Joyce Peseroff
Friday, March 24th,
8 pm at the Concord Poetry Center |
| Join us to commemorate the life and work of
this beloved New England poet with her husband, the poet
Donald Hall, and Joyce Peseroff, poet and editor of Simply
Lasting: Writers on Jane Kenyon.
Kenyon, who died of leukemia in 1995, shared a life of
poetry and the changing seasons of the rural countryside with
Donald Hall at their home in Wilmont, New Hampshire, which had
been the home of Hall's family for several generations.
Jane Kenyon's poetry is intimate and subtle, a poetry of
shadings and quiet musings. The poet Carol Muske wrote of her,
"These poems surprise beauty at every turn and capture truth
at its familiar New England slant."
Reading Only: $10
Reading & Reception: $35
Reserve tickets early by calling the office at:
978-371-0820 OR admission at the door.
DOWNLOAD FLYER HERE:
Jane Kenyon Flyer
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Sunday Afternoon Reading Series
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| Last September 25th our Sunday afternoon
Community Reading Series was inaugurated. Both the first and
the second (November 13th) readings filled the room and
received a warm response from the crowd.
Click on any one of the pictures below to visit a gallery
of pictures from the readings.
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| The series presents established and
emerging poets affiliated with the Center, while also
introducing poets from the greater Boston community.
Sunday, April 9 at 3:00
Our reading series commences with featured poets Joyce
Peseroff and Donna Johnson and
introduces Chad Reynolds from Emerson College and David
Johnson from UMass, Boston.
Sunday, May 14 at 3:00
The second spring reading features Teresa Cader and Mike Perrow and introduces
Acton-Boxboro High School students, Alison Herdeg and
Stephanie Li.
Refreshments and informal conversation follow the readings.
Admission only at the door: $6.00 (students $3.00).
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| WORKSHOPS AND CLASSES AND EVENTS |
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READING YOUR POEMS TO AN AUDIENCE
Instructor: Betsyann Duval, Poetry
Coach |
POETRY WORKSHOP: NEW SEEDS FOR WRITING
Instructor: Sophie Wadsworth,
Poet
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BUILDING A BETTER POEM: A Monthly Poetry Workshop
Instructor: Joan Houlihan,
Director, Concord Poetry Center |
| Much of the writing of poetry springs from the right
brain, and although all poets edit, few spend the time to
analyze their work in the way necessary to build an effective
reading program. Performing poetry is a tunnel into the core
of a poem. It is only through the power of performance that an
audience can experience the full art of the poet. Poets will
be coached in an intensive reading experience designed to draw
the drama and nuance from their work and to enable them to
deliver powerful, confident performances.
Saturday, April 15 9AM-1pm OR Saturday, May 13 9AM-1pm $35
($28 members)
NOTE: Individual sessions are available by
arrangement (call 978-897-0054) $50/hour
| "Poems would be easy if our heads weren't so full of the
day's clatter. The task is to get through to the other side,
where we can hear the deep rhythms that connect us with the
stars and the tides."
...Stanley Kunitz
This workshop offers a day of exploring poetry, writing,
and discovering new ideas on the page. Emphasis will be on
discovering our own wildest ideas. Poets ranging from Auden to
Forche to Rumi will offer inspiration as we explore what makes
poetry accessible, full of music, and spiritually vital. We’ll
try a variety of writing exercises to begin poems, and talk
about ways to cultivate, or deepen, a writing practice. Both
beginning and experienced writers welcome. Poems and related
articles will be provided. (For those who have taken this
workshop before, it will be a mixture of familiar and new
material)
Saturday, April 29, 1-5:00 PM $35 (CPC members, $28)
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This 4-week workshop, which starts
anew every month, focuses on the development of poetic craft
by examining the essential devices and techniques that make a
poem successful. Participants will explore these techniques in
exercises and by submitting their work for group critique.
Wednesdays, 7:00-9:30PM Next workshop starting March 8.
7:00 to 9:00PM -- $200 ($180 members)
NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS--for poets with a
book-length manuscript: |
POETRY TUTORING FOR TEENS
Instructor: Susan Edwards
Richmond Poet |
THE POETIC VOICE
Instructor: Sophie Wadsworth
Poet |
THE ABC of TRANSLATION: Panel Discussion and Mini-Workshop
with Don Share, Ann Snodgrass, Jim
Kates, and others.
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| Working one-on-one, poem by poem, teenagers build their
creative and revision skills by consulting with a published
poet. This flexible and focused arrangement is designed to
help students expand their poetic reach, get individual
attention on their creative process, learn how to revise their
work and to produce their best poems.
Hourly: By arrangement with Instructor (contact CPC at
978-897-0054) $25/hour |
This seminar explores how a poem's speaker can most
effectively gain the reader's "sympathetic attention." We'll
read prose and poetry to explore poetic voice, studying poets
such as Whitman, Herbert, Dickinson and others as models. In
our own writing, we'll play with point of view and explore
techniques to create persuasive speakers in our poems.
Experimentation will be encouraged and supported-- going
deeper into familiar territory as well as trying out new
approaches. Suggested but not required: Carl Dennis, "Poetry
as Persuasion" and Helen Vendler,"Invisible Listeners"
(handouts provided). Both beginning and experienced writers,
and adventurous readers, are welcome.
Saturday, May 6 1-5:00 PM $35
($28 members) |
The Mexican poet, Octavio Paz has said, "Poetry is waiting
not only for a translation but for another sensibility. Poetry
is waiting for the translation of a reader." Translation isn't
simply transferring meaning from one language to another—it
also involves reading, which translates words into meaning.
Translation is exciting because it moves meaning from one
language into another, linking not just individual minds but
whole cultures. Yet because it requires that a poem written in
one language has to be torn down and rebuilt in another, was
Frost right to say that poetry is what gets "lost in
translation?" Our panel discussion and mini-workshop will
explore the issues of originality, fidelity, and artistic
re-creation in poetry translation.
Sunday, May 7, 3-5:00 PM
Admission only at the door:
$6.00
(CPC members $3.00) |
SUNDAY AFTERNOON READING SERIES
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RIVERFEST
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| Sunday, April 9, 3-5pm
Featured poets Joyce Peseroff and Donna Johnson and
introducing Chad Reynolds from Emerson College and David
Johnson from UMass, Boston.
Sunday, May 14, 3-5pm
Featured poets Teresa Cader and Mike Perrow and introducing
Acton-Boxboro High School students, Alison Herdeg and
Stephanie Li.
Refreshments and informal conversation in the Poetry Room
follow the readings.
Admission only at the door: $6.00
(students $3.00) |
Poetry Al Fresco!
A collaboration between Musketaquid Arts and Environment
and the Concord Poetry Center. Local poets will share their
river-and nature-inspired poetry, and materials will be
available for you to write and share your own.
Saturday, June 10, 10 AM to 5:00 PM
At the Lowell Road
Boat Launch and the Old Manse
Free and Open to the Public
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