UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

Braids, Cornrows and the Gathering of Meaning
New York City Workshop with Jacqueline Jones LaMon
Friday, October 3 – November 21, 2008
Place: The New School
66 West 12th Street, Room 515
New York, New York

Workshop Description
What are your obsessions? Honor them. To what subjects do you find yourself inexplicably drawn? Research them! In this workshop, participants will explore previously unconsidered areas of interest and approach both the poem and the poetic sequence with new vitality. Our job as poets is not to approach the page with full knowledge of the work our poems are to do, but to be open and honest enough to receive what our poems can teach us. We will look at the work of poets who combine themes and forms in ways that create surprise, and begin each session with an exercise to nudge us beyond our comfort zones. The final session, a reading by workshop participants, is free and open to the public.

Jacqueline Jones LaMon

Jacqueline Jones Lamon is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, UCLA School of Law and Indiana University Bloomington, where she received her MFA in Poetry. A graduate fellow of Cave Canem, her first poetry collection, Gravity, U.S.A., received the 2005 Quercus Review Press Poetry Series Book Award. Her first novel, In the Arms of One Who Loves Me, was published by One World/Ballantine Books in 2002. She is Assistant Professor of English at Adelphi University, where she teaches creative writing, literature, and pedagogy. Dorianne Laux has called Ms. LaMon’s poems "the stuff of real life." Kevin t has written, "Gravity, U.S.A. is not just a book filled with a subtle, sorrowful, and ultimately brazen power, but a place where you’ll want to visit, and stay."

Eligibilty
African American adults not presently enrolled full time in degree granting programs. Priority will be given to residents of New York City’s five boroughs and applicants who have participated in fewer than three Cave Canem workshops.

Deadline to Submit
September 22, 2008
Note: A postmark date of September 23 will not suffice.

Application Guidelines
Post, e-mail or hand deliver two copies of no more than five pages of poems, written in any style, and one or two sentences about what you plan to accomplish in the workshop. Include contact information on every page: name, telephone number and postal & e-mail addresses. Deliver to:

NYC Workshop
Cave Canem Foundation
584 Broadway, Suite 508
New York, New York 10012
www.cavecanempoets.org
dantemicheaux@ccpoets.org

Notification
September 26, 2008, by telephone or e-mail.

Lead Funding from Jerome Foundation.
Additional funding from Ford Foundation; The New School;


New York City Department of Cultural Affairs

New York Community Trust; Lila Acheson Wallace Theater Fund;


New York State Council on the Arts;

and Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Pivotal Place: New York City.

Workshop Flyer

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