Sacramento Poetry Center Annual Writer's Conference
Friday April 3 7:30 PM to 9 PM
Saturday April 4 10 AM to 5:15 PM
Sacramento Poetry Center
1719 25th Street
Cost: FREE
Pre-register
In order to preregister for SPC’s upcoming poetry conference (the April 4 workshops) email Tim at tnklbnny@frontiernet.net
Friday April 3
7:30pm-9pm - Friday night reading and reception
William O' Daly, Libby Kovacs, Susan Kelly-DeWitt
April 4
10am to 3:30pm - Saturday workshops
9:00 – 10:00am Coffee and muffins: morning schmooze
10:00 – 11:45am Morning workshop sessions:
Camille Norton
"Confession as Conceit: Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, and the Lyric I"
Tim Kahl
Finding Your "Other" Voice: Using Inflection, Impersonation, and Song in Performance and to Generate Material for Poems
This workshop will explore how to use your voice as a musical instrument which will provide rhythmic and melodic structure to the poetic line. Also, we will discuss how writing poems that incorporate specific songs [pop, jazz, opera, television jingles, TV theme songs, etc.] as well as impersonation will lend themselves to a multi-vocal effect.
Susan Kelly-DeWitt
Truth versus Fact: The Art of Lying and Why the Poem Is Not Your Mommy
12:00 – 1:00pm - Lunch break
1:00 – 2:45pm - Afternoon workshop sessions:
William O' Daly
Writing Odes to Our Socks: Poetry and Translation as Creation of Family
This workshop will revisit what the translation of poetry is, what is required of the poet-translator and how we grow in the process, how translation is accomplished, and what we create when we translate a poem or book of poems. We'll also compare three different translations of Pablo Neruda's "Ode to My Socks," and will shed light on some of the misconceptions surrounding the translation of poetry.
Camille Dungy
Didn't mean to do that: Turn mistakes into gifts, and regain a new sense of purpose in your poems.
Matthew Zapruder
Collaboration Strategies in Poetry
Writing poetry, as we all know, can be a lonely, even solipsistic, artistic practice. Collaboration with other writers or artists from other disciplines is one of the best ways of getting us out of ourselves, and into other spaces, where new and exciting things can happen. In this discussion/workshop , we will talk briefly about the history of collaboration in poetry, highlighting a few particularly interesting examples; discuss various types of collaborative practice (particularly with painters, as well as with other poets); and focus on practical advice and suggestions for collaboration. Time permitting, we will try one or two collaborative exercises.
3:00 – 3:30pm - Brief Panel discussion
4:00 - 5:15 - Reading
Camille Dungy, Matthew Zapruder, Camille Norton
Matthew Zapruder
Born in 1967 in Washington, DC, Matthew Zapruder is a widely published poet and translator, as well as the founder and Editor in Chief of the acclaimed poetry publishing house Verse Press (now Wave Books). His first book of poetry, American Linden, was the winner of the Tupelo Press Editors' Prize, and came out in 2002. His second collection, The Pajamaist, was released by Copper Canyon in 2006. His book of translations from the Romanian, Secret Weapon: The Late Poems of Eugen Jebeleanu, was published by Coffee House in 2007. Zapruder lives in San Francisco, works as an editor for Wave Books, and teaches in the low residency MFA program at UC Riverside-Palm Desert and at the University of Houston. In May/June of 2007 he was a Lannan Literary Fellow in Marfa Texas, and he is a recipient of a 2008 May Sarton prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Camille Norton
Camille Norton is Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. Her previous awards include the National Poetry Series Award for her book Corruption (Harper Collins, 2005), the Grolier Prize in Poetry, the Derek Bok Award for Teaching, and the Eberhardt Teacher-Scholar Award. She is coeditor of Resurgent: New Writing by Women; her recent work has appeared in Field: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, The Colorado Review, Tiferet, Iris, Exphrasis, The White Pelican Review, The Gail Scott Reader, and How2, an online journal of women and experimental writing. "Oli's Dream," her collaboration with Jarek Kapuscinski was performed in Finland and in Poland last summer and that she has more recent work forthcoming in The Greensboro Review; and Feminist Studies. Her new book is called, The Dream Canoe.
Susan Kelly-Dewitt
Susan Kelly-DeWitt is the author of a full-length collection, THE FORTUNATE ISLANDS (Marick Press) and five previous chapbooks: A CAMELLIA FOR JUDY (Frith Press, 1998), FEATHER'S HAND (Swan Scythe Press, 2000), TO A SMALL MOTH (Poet's Corner Press, 2001), Susan Kelly-DeWitt' s GREATEST HITS (Pudding House, 2003), THE LAND (Rattlesnake Press, 2005) and a letterpress collection, THE BOOK OF INSECTS (Spruce Street Press, 2003). Her most recent chapbook, CASSIOPEIA ABOVE THE BANYAN TREE appears online as Mudlark 33 and has been released in an expanded print version from Rattlesnake Press.
William O' Daly
William O'Daly is a poet, translator, and fiction writer. A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, his published works include eight books of the late and posthumous poetry of Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda: World's End (Copper Canyon, 2009), The Hands of Day (Copper Canyon, 2008), Still Another Day (Copper Canyon Press, 2nd edition, 2005), The Separate Rose (Copper Canyon, 2nd edition, 2005), The Sea and Bells (Copper Canyon, 2nd edition, 2003), The Yellow Heart (Copper Canyon, 2nd edition, 2002), Winter Garden (Copper Canyon, 2nd edition, 2002), The Book of Questions (Copper Canyon, 2nd edition, 2001), and a chapbook of his own poems, The Whale in the Web. His poems, translations, and essays have been published in a wide range of magazines and anthologies. With co-author Han-ping Chin, he recently completed a historical novel, This Earthly Life, based on the Chinese Cultural Revolution. A co-founder of Copper Canyon Press, he has worked as a college teacher, a literary and technical editor, and an instructional designer.
Camille Dungy
Author of What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison (Red Hen Press, 2006), Camille T. Dungy has been awarded fellowships and awards from organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts, Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the American Antiquarian Society. A graduate of Stanford University and the MFA program at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, she lives in San Francisco, CA, where she serves as an Associate Professor in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University. Her work has appeared in The Missouri Review, The Southern Review, The Crab Orchard Review, Poetry Daily, and other publications. She is Assistant Editor Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade (University of Michigan Press, 2006).
Tim Kahl
Tim Kahl's work has been published or is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, American Letters & Commentary, Berkeley Poetry Review, Fourteen Hills, George Washington Review, Illuminations, Indiana Review, Limestone, Nimrod, Ninth Letter, Notre Dame Review, South Dakota Quarterly, The Journal, Parthenon West Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, The Texas Review, and many other journals in the U.S. He has translated German poet Rolf Haufs, Austrian avant-gardist, Friederike Mayröcker; Brazilian poets, Lêdo Ivo and Marly de Oliveira; and the poems of the Portuguese language's only Nobel Laureate, José Saramago. He also appears as Victor Schnickelfritz at the poetry and poetics blog/vlog The Great American Pinup (http://greatamerica npinup.blogspot. com/). His first collection is Possessing Yourself (Word Tech Press, 2009).
Libby Kovacs
(Eleutheria) Liberty (Kardules, Wright) Kovacs, Ph.D., MFT, MSN is a self-actualized Greek-American octogenarian who grew up (and lived much of her adult life) between cultures. In spite of the drama and challenges, Libby led a life of admirable perseverance and courage to be all she could be. She not only changed generational patterns and went to nursing school and college at the price of being disowned by her father, but she went all the way to earn an MFT and MSN, and then at age 52, a Ph.D. She worked as a marriage and family therapist into her late seventies. On top of this, she raised three sons, sometimes single parenting, sometimes being caught in the middle with step-parent issues. And to feed her soul, for nineteen years she courageously went white-water rafting. She is the author of Liberty's Quest: The Compelling Story of the Wife and Mother of Two Poetry Pulitzer Prize Winners, James Wright and Franz Wright (Robert D. Reed Publishers)
Saturday April 4 10 AM to 5:15 PM
Sacramento Poetry Center
1719 25th Street
Cost: FREE
Pre-register
In order to preregister for SPC’s upcoming poetry conference (the April 4 workshops) email Tim at tnklbnny@frontiernet.net
Friday April 3
7:30pm-9pm - Friday night reading and reception
William O' Daly, Libby Kovacs, Susan Kelly-DeWitt
April 4
10am to 3:30pm - Saturday workshops
9:00 – 10:00am Coffee and muffins: morning schmooze
10:00 – 11:45am Morning workshop sessions:
Camille Norton
"Confession as Conceit: Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, and the Lyric I"
Tim Kahl
Finding Your "Other" Voice: Using Inflection, Impersonation, and Song in Performance and to Generate Material for Poems
This workshop will explore how to use your voice as a musical instrument which will provide rhythmic and melodic structure to the poetic line. Also, we will discuss how writing poems that incorporate specific songs [pop, jazz, opera, television jingles, TV theme songs, etc.] as well as impersonation will lend themselves to a multi-vocal effect.
Susan Kelly-DeWitt
Truth versus Fact: The Art of Lying and Why the Poem Is Not Your Mommy
12:00 – 1:00pm - Lunch break
1:00 – 2:45pm - Afternoon workshop sessions:
William O' Daly
Writing Odes to Our Socks: Poetry and Translation as Creation of Family
This workshop will revisit what the translation of poetry is, what is required of the poet-translator and how we grow in the process, how translation is accomplished, and what we create when we translate a poem or book of poems. We'll also compare three different translations of Pablo Neruda's "Ode to My Socks," and will shed light on some of the misconceptions surrounding the translation of poetry.
Camille Dungy
Didn't mean to do that: Turn mistakes into gifts, and regain a new sense of purpose in your poems.
Matthew Zapruder
Collaboration Strategies in Poetry
Writing poetry, as we all know, can be a lonely, even solipsistic, artistic practice. Collaboration with other writers or artists from other disciplines is one of the best ways of getting us out of ourselves, and into other spaces, where new and exciting things can happen. In this discussion/workshop , we will talk briefly about the history of collaboration in poetry, highlighting a few particularly interesting examples; discuss various types of collaborative practice (particularly with painters, as well as with other poets); and focus on practical advice and suggestions for collaboration. Time permitting, we will try one or two collaborative exercises.
3:00 – 3:30pm - Brief Panel discussion
4:00 - 5:15 - Reading
Camille Dungy, Matthew Zapruder, Camille Norton
Matthew Zapruder
Born in 1967 in Washington, DC, Matthew Zapruder is a widely published poet and translator, as well as the founder and Editor in Chief of the acclaimed poetry publishing house Verse Press (now Wave Books). His first book of poetry, American Linden, was the winner of the Tupelo Press Editors' Prize, and came out in 2002. His second collection, The Pajamaist, was released by Copper Canyon in 2006. His book of translations from the Romanian, Secret Weapon: The Late Poems of Eugen Jebeleanu, was published by Coffee House in 2007. Zapruder lives in San Francisco, works as an editor for Wave Books, and teaches in the low residency MFA program at UC Riverside-Palm Desert and at the University of Houston. In May/June of 2007 he was a Lannan Literary Fellow in Marfa Texas, and he is a recipient of a 2008 May Sarton prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Camille Norton
Camille Norton is Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. Her previous awards include the National Poetry Series Award for her book Corruption (Harper Collins, 2005), the Grolier Prize in Poetry, the Derek Bok Award for Teaching, and the Eberhardt Teacher-Scholar Award. She is coeditor of Resurgent: New Writing by Women; her recent work has appeared in Field: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, The Colorado Review, Tiferet, Iris, Exphrasis, The White Pelican Review, The Gail Scott Reader, and How2, an online journal of women and experimental writing. "Oli's Dream," her collaboration with Jarek Kapuscinski was performed in Finland and in Poland last summer and that she has more recent work forthcoming in The Greensboro Review; and Feminist Studies. Her new book is called, The Dream Canoe.
Susan Kelly-Dewitt
Susan Kelly-DeWitt is the author of a full-length collection, THE FORTUNATE ISLANDS (Marick Press) and five previous chapbooks: A CAMELLIA FOR JUDY (Frith Press, 1998), FEATHER'S HAND (Swan Scythe Press, 2000), TO A SMALL MOTH (Poet's Corner Press, 2001), Susan Kelly-DeWitt' s GREATEST HITS (Pudding House, 2003), THE LAND (Rattlesnake Press, 2005) and a letterpress collection, THE BOOK OF INSECTS (Spruce Street Press, 2003). Her most recent chapbook, CASSIOPEIA ABOVE THE BANYAN TREE appears online as Mudlark 33 and has been released in an expanded print version from Rattlesnake Press.
William O' Daly
William O'Daly is a poet, translator, and fiction writer. A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, his published works include eight books of the late and posthumous poetry of Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda: World's End (Copper Canyon, 2009), The Hands of Day (Copper Canyon, 2008), Still Another Day (Copper Canyon Press, 2nd edition, 2005), The Separate Rose (Copper Canyon, 2nd edition, 2005), The Sea and Bells (Copper Canyon, 2nd edition, 2003), The Yellow Heart (Copper Canyon, 2nd edition, 2002), Winter Garden (Copper Canyon, 2nd edition, 2002), The Book of Questions (Copper Canyon, 2nd edition, 2001), and a chapbook of his own poems, The Whale in the Web. His poems, translations, and essays have been published in a wide range of magazines and anthologies. With co-author Han-ping Chin, he recently completed a historical novel, This Earthly Life, based on the Chinese Cultural Revolution. A co-founder of Copper Canyon Press, he has worked as a college teacher, a literary and technical editor, and an instructional designer.
Camille Dungy
Author of What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison (Red Hen Press, 2006), Camille T. Dungy has been awarded fellowships and awards from organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts, Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the American Antiquarian Society. A graduate of Stanford University and the MFA program at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, she lives in San Francisco, CA, where she serves as an Associate Professor in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University. Her work has appeared in The Missouri Review, The Southern Review, The Crab Orchard Review, Poetry Daily, and other publications. She is Assistant Editor Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade (University of Michigan Press, 2006).
Tim Kahl
Tim Kahl's work has been published or is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, American Letters & Commentary, Berkeley Poetry Review, Fourteen Hills, George Washington Review, Illuminations, Indiana Review, Limestone, Nimrod, Ninth Letter, Notre Dame Review, South Dakota Quarterly, The Journal, Parthenon West Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, The Texas Review, and many other journals in the U.S. He has translated German poet Rolf Haufs, Austrian avant-gardist, Friederike Mayröcker; Brazilian poets, Lêdo Ivo and Marly de Oliveira; and the poems of the Portuguese language's only Nobel Laureate, José Saramago. He also appears as Victor Schnickelfritz at the poetry and poetics blog/vlog The Great American Pinup (http://greatamerica npinup.blogspot. com/). His first collection is Possessing Yourself (Word Tech Press, 2009).
Libby Kovacs
(Eleutheria) Liberty (Kardules, Wright) Kovacs, Ph.D., MFT, MSN is a self-actualized Greek-American octogenarian who grew up (and lived much of her adult life) between cultures. In spite of the drama and challenges, Libby led a life of admirable perseverance and courage to be all she could be. She not only changed generational patterns and went to nursing school and college at the price of being disowned by her father, but she went all the way to earn an MFT and MSN, and then at age 52, a Ph.D. She worked as a marriage and family therapist into her late seventies. On top of this, she raised three sons, sometimes single parenting, sometimes being caught in the middle with step-parent issues. And to feed her soul, for nineteen years she courageously went white-water rafting. She is the author of Liberty's Quest: The Compelling Story of the Wife and Mother of Two Poetry Pulitzer Prize Winners, James Wright and Franz Wright (Robert D. Reed Publishers)
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