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SUMMARY:Self-Portrait in an Ekphrastic Mirror with Michael Mercurio (Workshop)
DESCRIPTION:As a visual artist\, writing about your own work – whether it’s an artist statement\, exhibition placards\, or grant proposals – can be a challenge. Ekphrastic poetry (a.k.a. poetry inspired by visual art) can help you think differently about the process. This 3-hour virtual workshop will include time reading and analyzing ekphrastic poems together\, followed by a 45min period for drafting ekphrastic writing (it need not be poetry!) in response to a piece of art selected by the student and 45 minutes of sharing and discussion.  \n\n\n\nAbout the instructor: A graduate of the Lesley University MFA program in creative writing\, Michael Mercurio (Poetry\, January 2017) lives and writes in Western Massachusetts. His poems\, critical essays\, and interviews have been published in Palette Poetry\, Sierra (the magazine of the Sierra Club)\, the Common\, Thrush Poetry Journal\, Bear Review\, Sugar House Review\, Lily Poetry Review\, The Inflectionist Review\, Rust + Moth\, Coal Hill Review\, and elsewhere. He has taught this workshop for the low-res MFA programs in visual arts at Lesley University and Clark University\, and he is a regular instructor for Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/self-portrait-in-an-ekphrastic-mirror-with-michael-mercurio-workshop/
LOCATION:Online Event
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SUMMARY:Author Talk - P. O'Connell Pearson
DESCRIPTION:Local author and historian P. (Patty) O’Connell Pearson (WFYP\, June 2015) will be visiting the City of Fairfax Regional Library to talk about her newest book\, No Ordinary Women: How Progressive Era Reformers Reshaped America.  This book\, recommended for ages 10 and up\, details a period of time defined by rampant inequality. Through grassroots movements\, people remade American society and government from the ground up. These activists were the Progressives\, and thousands of them were women—even though women did not yet have the right to vote.  \n\n\n\nCopies of the book will be available for sale and author signature.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/author-talk-p-oconnell-pearson/
LOCATION:City of Fairfax Regional Library\, 10360 North St\, Fairfax\, Virginia\, 22030\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alum Event
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SUMMARY:Writing About Illness with Grace & Humor with Sharisse Zeroonian
DESCRIPTION:Instructor: Sharisse Zeroonian (WSS\, January 2024) \n\n\n\nHealth and illness; it’s an inescapable part of life. But sometimes\, it can be hard to write about. How do we do so in an emotionally balanced\, powerful\, and sensitive way? Come join this fun\, interactive workshop to learn how! \n\n\n\nStudents will: \n\n\n\n\nUse craft elements to fully capture the medical experience through in-class writing exercises\n\n\n\nExamine examples of art and stories with a health focus\n\n\n\nLearn how to temper the gravity of such subjects with humor and sensitivity
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/writing-about-illness-with-grace-humor-with-sharisse-zeroonian/
LOCATION:Wickford Art Association\, 36 Beach St\, North Kingstown\, Rhode Island\, 02852\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Staged Reading of Eyes Shut. Door Open. by Cassie Seinuk
DESCRIPTION:Gods and monsters don’t need an invitation. Neither do brothers. Eyes Shut. Door Open. is a psychological horror play dressed in the glamour of the New York art scene. TURNER STREET has everything — the paintings\, the opening\, the girl. What he doesn’t have is an exit from his past. Not with Palmer at the door. Not with Johanna’s real agenda sharpening in the dark. And not with the shadow that’s been waiting at the edge of every good thing Turner has ever had. One apartment. One night. One living nightmare. Can you own what you built from someone else’s suffering? \n\n\n\nCassie M. Seinuk (WSS\, June 2013 & Mentor) – PlaywrightChristopher Randolph – DirectorMichael Underhill – TURNEREmma Svitil – JOHANNAGilberto Saenz – PALMERJaine Ye – Stage Direction ReaderPatrick R. Greene – Original sound design and composerCMS Productions – Producers
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/a-staged-reading-of-eyes-shut-door-open-by-cassie-seinuk/
LOCATION:The Tank\, 312 W 36th St\, New York\, New York\, 10018\, United States
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