Workshops
Ongoing Workshops
New Poetry Group Forming
The Guild is growing. A fourth poetry critique group was created in September. Poetry 1, Poetry 2 aka the Red Sofa Poets, and Poetry 4 aka the Let Them Eat Cake Poets, are all at capacity.
Fiction 1 Workshop
The Fiction 1, an ongoing workshop group has openings for some new members. If you're interested in meeting twice a month with other poets to critique each other's work, let Steven know by reaching him at 746-8306 or via our Contact page.
Workshop Information
You can reach the Workshop Coordinator and group leaders via our Contact page.
- Fiction I
- Fiction II Discontinued
- Poetry I FULL
- Red Sofa Poets FULL
- Poetry III Discontinued
- Let Them Eat Cake Poets, losing their heads over poetry. FULL
Craft Workshops
Paulann Petersen Workshop:
Exploring the Elements of Craft
Saturday, March 110 am to 3 pm
Lamb Cottage
$50 (LLG member) • $65 (non-member)
Join Paulann Petersen for a workshop devoted to generating new poems and exploring the elements of craft. Using the work of Northwest poets as springboards, we’ll spend a substantial part of our time together writing—following language to wherever it might lead us, and perhaps hearing, on the spot, what some of us have just written. We’ll also use those same springboard poems to discuss strategies of revision, what Paulann calls “second sight.” The word “revision” does indeed offer us a bracing truth. To truly revise is to do much more than mere editing and tinkering: it’s learning to see our poems anew, moving them toward their strengths. Line integrity (line breaks), sound form (musical devices), compression, tone, effectiveness of trope, and dramatic strategy will be among the elements of craft we’ll discuss.
Paulann hopes that you’ll leave the workshop with a trove of new material and some new ideas for your revision toolbox. This workshop welcomes beginning and seasoned writers alike.
Paulann Petersen’s books of poetry are The Wild Awake (Confluence Press), Blood-Silk (Quiet Lion Press), and A Bride of Narrow Escape (Cloudbank Books), which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. A fourth collection, Kindle, is forthcoming from Mountains and Rivers Press. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and the recipient of the 2006 Holbrook Award from Oregon Literary Arts, she serves on the board of Friends of William Stafford, organizing the annual January Stafford Birthday Events.
To register, send payment to:
LLG
PO Box 11035
Eugene OR 97440
For more info, call Toni at 255-9136