2020 WyoPoets Spring ONLINE Workshop
Juliet Patterson
Our 2020 WyoPoets ONLINE Spring Workshop is a members-only benefit. Not a member? Join now.
Juliet Patterson will provide a recorded video presentation on April 24, followed by four weeks of writing prompts. The video and prompts will be made available free to all current WyoPoets members.
Recently named a finalist for the Audre Lorde Award in Poetry, Juliet Patterson is the recipient of fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Minneapolis-based Institute for Community and Cultural Development. She’s the author of two full-length books, Threnody, (Nightboat Books) and the Lambda Award finalist The Truant Lover (Nightboat Books). Her poems and essays have appeared widely in numerous magazines, and she’s also published two chapbooks (one prose and one poetry): Epilogue (Spout Press) and Dirge (Albion Books). Her most recent writing project, a memoir in progress entitled Sinkhole, was a 2017 finalist for a Loft-McKnight Award. She lives in Minneapolis on the west bank of the Mississippi near the Great River Road. We encourage you to purchase Juliet's books — scroll down for details.
SCHEDULE:
Friday, April 24
6:30-8:30 p.m. — WyoPoets 2020 chabpook, "Watershed," launch and poetry reading (via Zoom)
Saturday, April 25
9-10:30 a.m. — membership meeting and lining out for the day (Zoom)
10:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. — watch Juliet's video on your own, do some writing to the first of the weekly prompts, grab some lunch
1-3 p.m. — Juliet will join us for group discussion time (Zoom)
Optional poetry critiques
In addition to the video workshop and prompts, for a $15 charge, participants will be able to send one poem in response to one of her writing prompts to Juliet for feedback. Payment details have been sent via email to WyoPoets members. Questions? Contact Susan Mark at writingwyoming@gmail.com.
Juliet Patterson will provide a recorded video presentation on April 24, followed by four weeks of writing prompts. The video and prompts will be made available free to all current WyoPoets members.
Recently named a finalist for the Audre Lorde Award in Poetry, Juliet Patterson is the recipient of fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Minneapolis-based Institute for Community and Cultural Development. She’s the author of two full-length books, Threnody, (Nightboat Books) and the Lambda Award finalist The Truant Lover (Nightboat Books). Her poems and essays have appeared widely in numerous magazines, and she’s also published two chapbooks (one prose and one poetry): Epilogue (Spout Press) and Dirge (Albion Books). Her most recent writing project, a memoir in progress entitled Sinkhole, was a 2017 finalist for a Loft-McKnight Award. She lives in Minneapolis on the west bank of the Mississippi near the Great River Road. We encourage you to purchase Juliet's books — scroll down for details.
SCHEDULE:
Friday, April 24
6:30-8:30 p.m. — WyoPoets 2020 chabpook, "Watershed," launch and poetry reading (via Zoom)
Saturday, April 25
9-10:30 a.m. — membership meeting and lining out for the day (Zoom)
10:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. — watch Juliet's video on your own, do some writing to the first of the weekly prompts, grab some lunch
1-3 p.m. — Juliet will join us for group discussion time (Zoom)
Optional poetry critiques
In addition to the video workshop and prompts, for a $15 charge, participants will be able to send one poem in response to one of her writing prompts to Juliet for feedback. Payment details have been sent via email to WyoPoets members. Questions? Contact Susan Mark at writingwyoming@gmail.com.
Purchase Juliet's books
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2020 WyoPoets Spring Workshop CANCELLED
Notice to all WyoPoets members: Because the April Workshop is cancelled, please do not send any more poems at this time to Juliet Patterson. Those who sent poems before the workshop cancellation will receive communications from Juliet.
At an emergency meeting, the WyoPoets Board of Directors decided to cancel the annual Poetry Workshop scheduled for April 24-25, 2020 in Gillette, WY. Cancellation was chosen reluctantly and with great sadness after careful, thoughtful discussion about the perils of the coronavirus outbreak.
Inasmuch as no one is able to foresee in the near term a future safe from the coronavirus pandemic, rescheduling a face-to-face workshop later this year is only a very remote option. However, the Board is exploring the possibility of conducting a free, online, scaled back digital workshop later this year.
Those who have already registered and paid for the April Workshop will upon request have their fees 1) fully refunded without question, or 2) may choose to assign those funds as a donation to WyoPoets, or 3) may leave them with the WyoPoets’ treasurer to be applied to a future in-person Workshop later this year, should such a possibility arise. If not, the first two options (above) will be available.
The Board of Directors of WyoPoets regrets that it must cancel the Workshop but for the sake of the safety of our members and the civic responsibility of our organization it has no choice.
Inasmuch as no one is able to foresee in the near term a future safe from the coronavirus pandemic, rescheduling a face-to-face workshop later this year is only a very remote option. However, the Board is exploring the possibility of conducting a free, online, scaled back digital workshop later this year.
Those who have already registered and paid for the April Workshop will upon request have their fees 1) fully refunded without question, or 2) may choose to assign those funds as a donation to WyoPoets, or 3) may leave them with the WyoPoets’ treasurer to be applied to a future in-person Workshop later this year, should such a possibility arise. If not, the first two options (above) will be available.
The Board of Directors of WyoPoets regrets that it must cancel the Workshop but for the sake of the safety of our members and the civic responsibility of our organization it has no choice.
