[etni] Fwd: Bar-Ilan Creative Writing One-Day Seminar with Sarah Wetzel, March 22, 2015

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Subject: Bar-Ilan Creative Writing One-Day Seminar with Sarah Wetzel,
March 22, 2015

The Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing invites you to
participate in a one-day seminar in Tel-Aviv with Award-Winning Poet,
Sarah Wetzel


POETRY AS CREATIVE IMITATION

Disruption can provide a moment to examine one’s strengths and
weaknesses. Do you repeatedly write the same poem with the same
subject matter?  Are you tired of your tone or form?  Or do you just
want to exercise different creative muscles?

In this generative workshop, we will read several poets who have
successfully developed an identifiable style or addressed a topic in
their poetry that has become almost synonymous with their names
including Sharon Olds, Frank Bidart, Louise Glück, Carl Phillips,
Rachel Zucker, Yusef Komunyakaa, and others.

We will read and study those poets, identify technical aspects in our
own work that could develop into a style, and review the subject
matter of our poems that could potentially enhance the conversation of
human experience in poetry

We will then learn by imitating these other poets. Apart from an
exploration of style, the aim is to shake up your subject matter and
routines, re-approach your work with freshness, and, importantly, to
better understand the aspects of your own voice that make it and your
poems unique.


Previous experience is desirable but not necessary.You will receive a
pdf of the poems at least one week before the seminar - please read
them in advance.


Bio:

Sarah Wetzel is the author of River Electric with Light (forthcoming,
Red Hen Press), which won the 2013 AROHO Poetry Publication Prize, and
Bathsheba Transatlantic (Anhinga Press, 2010), which won the Philip
Levine Prize for Poetry. She currently teaches literature and creative
writing at The American University of Rome, Italy. Sarah completed her
MFA from Bennington in 2009, and holds an engineering degree from
Georgia Institute of Technology and a MBA from the University of
California, Berkeley. She spends a lot of time writing on planes, as
she divides her time between Manhattan, Rome, and Tel Aviv. Her poetry
and essays have been published widely in journals, and you can read
samples of her work at www.sarahwetzel.com.


WHERE: North Tel-Aviv (exact location TBA)

DATE: March 22, 2015.

TIME: 10.00 AM prompt (doors open at 9.30 AM) – 3.30 PM (with a
45-minute break for lunch)

COST: 475 NIS per seminar (10% discount for students and alumni of the
Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing). Proceeds of the
seminar go to our student scholarship fund.


***Special Offer! 5% discount for those who register by Wednesday,
March 4, 12:00 noon Israel time.


Please email Nadia Jacobson, at barilanwriting@xxxxxxxxx as soon as
possible to reserve your place.

Nadia Jacobson
Coordinator
Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing
Bar-Ilan University
barilanwriting@xxxxxxxxx
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[etni] Fwd: Bar-Ilan Creative Writing One-Day Seminar with Sarah Wetzel, March 22, 2015

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