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3 - D AY a n d 1 - D AY W O R K S H O P S

ORGANIC METER

Michael White

STEALING FROM OTHER POETS

Robert Archambeau (1-day)

FROM SEED TO SEQUENCE

Chelsea Rathburn

EXPERIMENTAL VARIATION ON SYLLABICS

Tony Barnstone

METRICAL LITERACY

Annie Finch

GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK: Song Lyrics

Al Basile (1-day)

BLANK VERSE

Dick Davis

TO BREAK OR NOT TO BREAK

Tim Liu

BIG LIGHTNING, LITTLE BOTTLES: The Joys of the Short Poem

Hailey Leithauser (1-day)

YOUR BRAIN ON POETRY

Amy Lemmon

HUMOR IN POETRY

Juliana Gray (1-day)

WORKING WITH PROJECTIVE VERSE: Out of the Comfort Zone

Shirley Geok-lin Lim

NARRATIVE POETRY AS CRAFT

George Green (1-day)

2 3 R D A N N U A L W E S T C H E S T E R U N I V E R S I T Y P O E T R Y C O N F E R E N C E

June 6-9, 2018

Timothy Steele is the author of four collections of poems: Uncertainties and Rest (1979), Sapphics against Anger and Other Poems (1986), The Color Wheel (1994), and Toward the Winter Solstice (2006). The first two were reprinted in 1995 as a joint volume, Sapphics and Uncertainties: Poems 1970-1986. He has also published two books of scholarship and literary criticism, Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt against Meter (1990) and All the Fun’s in How You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and Versification (1999); and he has edited The Poems of J.V. Cunningham (1997). Steele’s honors include a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing from Stanford University, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Peter

I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Los Angeles PEN Center’s Literary Award for Poetry, a California Arts Council Grant, a Commonwealth Club Medal for Poetry, and the Robert Fitzgerald Award for Excellence in the Study of Prosody. Born in Burlington, Vermont, in 1948, he has lived in Los Angeles since 1977. He is an emeritus professor of English at California State University, Los Angeles, where he taught from 1987 to 2012.

K E Y N O T E S P E A K E R | Timothy SteeleFUN AND GAMES: WAYS TO TEACH POETIC FORMTony BarnstoneIn this seminar, I will be going over some of the techniques I’ve developed to teach poetic form to newcomers to meter and to make this daunting subject fun. The seminar will detail how to scaffold the class so each new skill pro-vides the foundation for the next skill to be learned. I will also demonstrate

some of the metrical games I play with my classes, and some ways to use social media (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Blogger) for group work, feedback, and collaborative poems. Additional topics to be touched upon include: additive syllabics; innovative stanzaic forms; the essentials of scansion; and acceptable metrical substitutions. I am hoping that participants will share their favorite techniques, as well!

POETRY AND MATHEMATICS SEMINAR Emily GrosholzPoetry and mathematics are sister arts. The imposition of periodicity on the flow of language (lineation, metrical structure, repetition of sound) leads some poems from time to immortality, especially when reinforced by the periodicities of music. How poets encompass the infinite, especially in cosmological poems,

is akin to the mathematical strategy of compactification. The folk motif that has inspired so many haunting poems, ‘supernatural lapse of time in fairyland,’ has its counterpart in the notion of hyperspace. We will read and discuss examples of such poems, and related essays.

C R I T I C A L S E M I N A R S

REEL VERSE: Ekphrastic Poems with Spotlight on MoviesJuliana GrayGeorge Green

FINDING YOUR FORM

Jane SatterfieldNed Balbo

M A N U S C R I P T R E V I E W/CO N F E R E N C E W I T H A R E S I D E N T P O E T

Susan de Sola | Shirley Lim | Catherine Tufariello | Kathrine Varnes

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