Sound Matters: A Poetry Workshop by Francine Harris
Sound Matters: It’s so easy to get carried away the “free” in free verse. This course will give you a few tips to keep your poems lyric and will help give them “flow.”
Writing Classes at Oliver Art Center, Frankford
Writing workshops at Oliver Art Center support and welcome all aspiring writers and writers.
Community Reading of Whitman’s “Song of Myself” on Oct. 6
Michigan Writers will present a reading of Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”. The poem, a part of “Leaves of Grass” and consisting of 52 cantos, will be read in its entirety at the State Theatre, October 6 at 1 pm. Admission will be free of charge.
July Poetry Boot Camp
Longtime Michigan Writers member, leader and presence Holly Wren Spaulding relocated to Massachusetts, but she’s back (although temporarily) in July! And she’s bringing back one of our long in-demand workshops, her Poetry Boot Camp, for a necessarily limited run.
Marla Kay Houghteling Workshop in Bay View
Marla Kay Houghteling, a Michigan Writers member, will conduct a workshop “Writing Poems from the World in Front of You” at the Bay View Association (a Chautauqua on Lake Michigan) on July 9, 11, 16, 18 from 1 to 3 p.m. The sessions will include using model poems as guides for writing one’s own poems by drawing on observation and memory.