WyoPoets Events
2010 WyoPoets Workshop
Saturday, April 24 in Casper, WY
Download a copy of the Brochure (.pdf)
(includes registration form)
Presenter: Sophia Puccini
The workshop will be held in the Magnolia Room at the Hilton Garden Inn, 1150 N. Popular Street, Casper, WY 82601, Ph. (307)266-1300.
Please join us Friday evening, April 23,
for a 20:20 presentation
Open Mike poetry reading and artwork
from 7 to 9 p.m.
Hilton Garden Inn
The event is free and open to the public.
Accommodations
A block of rooms at the Hampton Inn, 1100 N.
Popular (ph. 307-235-6668) has been held for
the group rate of $79 per night with two double
beds. A continental breakfast is included.
2010 Artists in Residence Program
at The Artists' Enclave
at
I-Park
Application Deadline: January 11, 2010 (postmark date)
I-Park announces its tenth season hosting The Artists' Enclave.
Self-directed artists' residencies will be offered from May
through November 2010, with possible off-season sessions in
April and December. Most sessions are four weeks in duration.
Residencies will be offered to visual (including digital)
artists, music composers, environmental artists, landscape and
garden designers, creative writers and architects. Work samples
are evaluated through a competitive, juried process.
There is a $25 application processing fee required and artists
are responsible for their own work materials as well as
transportation to and from the area. I-Park is introducing a
modest food program for 2010 where most, though not all, of the
food will be provided. The facility is otherwise offered at no
cost to accepted artists.
I-Park is a 450-acre natural woodland retreat in rural East
Haddam, Connecticut. Accommodations include comfortable private
living quarters in an 1850's era farmhouse, shared bathroom
facilities and a private studio on the grounds. An abundance of
power tools and equipment, site materials, an electric kiln,
wireless internet and library facilities are provided.
International applicants are welcome. To defray the cost of
travel, six $750.00 grants will be offered in 2010 to
international artists whose work is held in particularly high
regard by the grant committee.
For additional project information, go to the website:
www.i-park.org. Application instructions will be available
there in mid-November 2009 (Residency Section).
E-mail: ipark@ureach.com. Phone: 860-873-2468.
* WyoPoets does not endorse the organization or activity, and the information listed is provided for “informational purposes” only with the intent that some members may find it of interest.
The History of National Poetry Day (opens in a Word Document)
Link to 2009 Mining Memories Workshop Photos
View the 2008 Casper Poetry Workshop Photo Album
(Courtesy of Chris Valentine)
On Poetry
There is no frigate like a bookTo take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page
Of prancing poetry.
- Emily Dickinson
Poets On Poetry
Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. ~Carl Sandburg, Poetry Considered
The distinction between historian and poet is not in the one writing prose and the other verse... the one describes the thing that has been, and the other a kind of thing that might be. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. ~Aristotle, On Poetics.
The only problem
with Haiku is that you just
get started and then
~Roger McGough
The poem... is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see - it is, rather, a light by which we may see - and what we see is life. ~Robert Penn Warren, Saturday Review, 22 March 1958
Poetry is a much subtler, more highly nuanced and trickier affair. It does draw on our experience, but through various filtered and altered shapes, to create an object. ~Mark Strand
It would have been nice had we provided a nice warm stable and we were feeding them regularly - the care and feeding of poets. ~Lawrence Ferlinghetti
