Today I heard from a friend that there are quite a few writer’s in Onancock.
Want to begin a writer’s group?
email me at the writers studio.elaine@gmail.com
Writer’s Group in Onancock
Sabbath # 55
My husband takes his breakfast plate
and places it gently in the sink.
A small act, clearing the table.
He has many such rituals: closing the blinds,
emptying the trash from each room on Saturdays,
carrying his papers collected on the dining table to his study,
matching his unmated socks, sleeping
with covers tucked under his chin.
We are still newly married.
A Calling
Are you called to write? Do you answer the call? If so, what are you called to write? Are you listening for the call?
Creative Writing Workshop- Tomas Transtromer:The Open Frontier,Landscape and Life
Creative Writing Workshop I & II
Tomas Transtromer: The Open Frontier, Landscape and Life
“Like so many poets before him, Transtromer is forever reminding us that the world is not what it appears to be; that with mindfulness and close attention, you might get a glimpse of something vast and strange.”
While reading Transtromer, winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature, we begin to think about translation, dreams and music. Unsure of the direction his writing will take us, we open to listening for our own still voices speaking directly to us as we spend the winter writing and revising poems and prose.
Texts: The Great Enigma, New Collected Poems by Tomas Transtromer Translated by Robin Fulton
The Half-Finished Heaven: The Best Poems of Tomas Transtromer, chosen and translated by Robert Bly
Suggested reading:
Tomas Transtromer Selected Poems 1954-1986 edited by Robert Hass
Windows and Stones: Selected Poems by Tomas Transtromer translated by May Swenson
Teacher: Elaine Fletcher Chapman (Walters McFerron), MFA
Time: 6:30pm-8:30pm for eight meetings
Creative Writing Workshop I begins Jan. 31, 2012
Creative Writing Workshop II begins Jan. 24, 2012
Cost: $300
Place: 2940 N. Lynnhaven Road, Virginia Beach, VA
For further information: Elaine Fletcher Chapman 757-650-8735
Ars Poetica Reading at The Cokesbury Church in Onancock
Last evening people gathered to read and listen to poems about the art of poetry. Ruth read Bly and Dickinson. Barrie read Hirshfield, Betty read MacLeish. Dave read Frost. Alice read Kenyon. Lee Ann read Collins. Fosten recited The Tempest. Robert and Will read their own poems. I began with Gregg and ended with Rukeyser. All the while we were surrounded by the sacredness of stained glass windows, wood and people who just came to listen, unexpectedly to poetry on a quiet Saturday night on The Eastern Shore of Virginia.
The Writer’s Studio Reading Series: Ars Poetica, Poems about the Art of Poetry
In conjunction with the Crossing Over Writing Retreat, THE WRITER’S STUDIO presents:
The Writer’s Studio Reading Series: Ars Poetica, Poems about The Art of Poetry
On Saturday, October 8 at 7:00 pm, at The Historic Cokesbury Church on the corner of Market and West Streets in Onancock, Virginia, THE WRITER’S STUDIO will host a reading of poems.
This event is free and open to the public. You do not have to be a poet to attend. You only have to love or be curious about poetry.
Wallace Stevens asserted that “Poetry is the subject of the Poem.” We will gather to hear poems about poetry and reflect on the art of poetry.
“The poem of the mind in the act of finding / what will suffice…” Wallace Stevens
“Tell the truth but tell it slant…” Emily Dickinson
“The room of marvels.” Andre Breton
Please bring a poem about poetry to read aloud or simply come to experience an evening of poetry.
Sign-up will begin at 6:45pm.
For further information about the reading or THE WRITER’S STUDIO please call or email Elaine Fletcher Chapman: thewritersstudio.elaine@gmail.com or 757-650-8735 or www.thewritersstudio.wordpress.com
Creative Writing Workshop: Toward a Harnessing Of Light
Creative Writing Workshop: Toward a Harnessing of Light
This mixed genre workshop of poetry and nonfiction is designed to inspire and illuminate. We will concentrate on generating new work. Some time will be spent on revision, as well. Come prepared to enter Jane Hirshfield’s poems which move like “light beams.” We will reflect on her prose for style and revelation for what is to be found there.
Texts: Come, Thief and Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry both by Jane Hirshfield
Teacher: Elaine Fletcher Chapman (Walters McFerron), MFA
Time: 6:30pm-8:30pm for Six meetings
Beginning Tuesday, September 13 and meeting every other Tuesday except for Thanksgiving week.
Cost: $250
Place: 2940 N. Lynnhaven Road, Virginia Beach, VA
For further information: Elaine Fletcher Chapman
757-650-8735
Courses, Fall 2011
Creative Writing Workshop: Toward a Harnessing of Light
Teacher: Elaine Fletcher Chapman (Walters McFerron)
Texts: Come, Thief and Nine Gates: Entering the Mind Of Poetry by Jane Hirshfield
