FIRST session! Woot!

Wake Up Call: write a poem about how you got here (share or don’t, its all good)

Intros:

Here’s the thing, we will probably all know each other already so lets get down to brass tacks- where are you in your writing journey and why are you here?

Community Corner:

Its National Poetry Month- yay!

The Downtown Ithaca Alliance is calling for submissions for their seasonal banner design contest- Art in The Air, http://www.downtownithaca.com/best-of-ithaca/2017+Art+in+the+Air+-+Call+for+Art due 4/18

Poetry at The Shop, Open Mic April 14th at 6pm, https://www.facebook.com/events/765902523577798/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%224%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D&sharer_id=1431626200

Poesía de Justicia- Social Justice Poetry Night, April 15 at 5pm at Sacred Root Kava, https://www.facebook.com/events/1008601259273337/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%224%22%2C%22feed_story_type%22%3A%22308%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D&sharer_id=100001715370322

Poetry Salon fundraiser to benefit CAP, taking place at the CAP Artspace in Center Ithaca with poets Stacey Murphy and Rob Sullivan, 6pm on April 12, https://www.facebook.com/events/1732493723709333/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%2222%22%2C%22feed_story_type%22%3A%2222%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D&pnref=story

Discussion:

Spring Writes is coming. Its awesome, we should all go! The Suffrage Anthology will be leading one of the workshops! Here is the schedule, don’t even get me started, omg: http://www.artspartner.org/content/view/spring-w-rites-literary-festival.html

Both Sarah Jefferis and Zee Zahava recently published poetry books- lets fawn over them and I will read my favorites.

I’ve been thinking a lot about short poetry and how I would like to write more of it. Here is a submission call for precisely this: https://trishhopkinson.com/2017/03/23/no-fee-submission-call-editor-interview-wild-voices-anthology-deadline-closes-when-full/

Because I know very little about this subject, I will share what I am choosing to focus on. I nearly lost my mind trying to research all short poetry forms. Lets just say, it wasn’t short. I like the container of a haiku (https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/haiku-poetic-form). It helps me be choice-ful, focussed.

Action:

Lets just free ourselves up and write a buttload of short poetry. Good, bad, whatever. Share or don’t. But for once, lets just shoot for abundance.

I’m thinking inspiration will come in the form of;

1. Cloud ideas- an overall theme that you can squeeze many poems out of

Examples: Spring, Wedding, Rain, Garden, Pond

2. Visuals- I will bring some pictures to get you going, from which you can draw your own conclusions

3. Happenings- short poems are often gleaned from experiences, conversations, memories

Examples: Monday morning, First Day on the Job, Birth of a Child, Taking a Hike, Finding Treasure

4. Containers- such as poems starting with each letter of your name, a poem for every month or every day or every season, poems having to do with each of your favorite birds or songs or purses

Lets do it!