Poetry Passion
Saturday March 7th, 1pm at the Kamloops Art Gallery
What sources can you look to for ideas and inspiration? How can you encourage an unfinished poem to become one of power and beauty? For new or experienced writers who seek direction and feedback, this workshop explores contemporary poetry as well as work from the 60ʼs, the era of Pop art. Students will write a series of poems using enjoyable and illuminating exercises and group critiques to expand imaginations and introduce the issues of craft and revision in an accessible way.
This class will be conducted through in-class writing exercises, readings, and handouts. Students will experiment with exercises in traditional and contemporary forms. Because poetry originated as an oral art, voice and rhythm are integral aspects of poetry; students will read their efforts aloud to the class. This trains the ear for errors in grammar and syntax and develops music and voice in the poem. We will use for inspiration: KAG exhibits Pop Prints and Celebrities of the Self, work by 60ʼs poets, music and cinema.
Susan Buis lives on an acreage near Kamloops where she moved from Los Angeles, after completing an MFA in Creative Writing at California State University Long Beach (2005). She also holds a BFA from the University of Saskatchewan. Her poetry has been published in the US anthologies, Mischief, Caprice and other Poetic Strategies, and How Luminous the Wildflowers and in the journals Rip Rap, and the Bellevue Literary Review. In Canada she has been published in Room, Tessera, Jones Av and Contemporary Verse 2 (CV2). In 2008 she placed second in the Okanagan Short Fiction Contest. She has written essays for Arnica Artist Run Centre, the Kamloops Art Gallery and ArtUS. In 2008 she taught Creative Writing at Thompson Rivers University. She is a member of the Green Stone Mountain poetry collective which publishes the Green Stone Mountain Review.
Call 250-571-5151 to register ($30 plus tax)
This event is in partnership with the Kamloops Art Gallery. To view their current exhibition please visit the following link.