BREAKING THROUGH: A GENERATIVE POETRY WORKSHOP
MARIE HOWE
I'm interested in generating new work that breaks through the barriers of style we might not be aware of, barriers of syntax, tone, diction, subject matter, music, etc. We'll write together on paper and out loud and share our work without the usual critique. We'll read poems that might help us break out of patterns that are holding us back. My aim is to provide some strategies that might help us make new channels within ourselves so that new poems will have a place to travel through, out and into the world.Biography
Marie Howe was a Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in 1983. Her newest book of poems is The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (WW Norton). She is also the author of the collections What the Living Do and The Good Thief, winner of the 1988 National Poetry Series award. She's received grants and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Bunting Institute. With Michael Klein, she edited an anthology, In the Company of my Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic. She currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and NYU. In 2012 she was named State Poet of New York.Students in this class (click on a name to see a sample of their work):
Judy Michaels
Gregory Grube
Sara Levine
Richard Brostoff
Carol Kirtz
Jay Brodbar
Nicole Albert
Jessie Brown
Gayle Roby
January O'Neil
FIGURE PAINTING TODAY
JAMES EVERETT STANLEY
Artists through the centuries have painted the figure to more fully understand the human form and to use it to communicate broader ideas. Even today, when new media and other alternative mediums are thriving, more and more contemporary artists are drawn to the pursuit of figurative painting in traditional and innovative ways. In this workshop, we'll examine contemporary issues in figure painting. Each day we'll start with a brief lecture, highlighting a different approach to painting the figure. We will paint from life, using a model to explore color, value, composition, mark-making, and paint-handling. Open to all levels.Biography
James Everett Stanley received his MFA in painting from Columbia University. A Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in 2002-2003, he has attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and been awarded a Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Studio Program fellowship. His work has been shown widely, including solo and group exhibitions at Freight & Volume Gallery in New York, Fredric Snitzer Gallery in Miami, Kinkead Contemporary in Los Angeles, and elsewhere.Students in this class (click on a name to see a sample of their work):
Joseph Flanagan
David Genest
Abigail Record
Dawn Dorland Perry
Federico Roa
Cyndi Wish
REACHING OUT, REACHING IN: A POETRY WORKSHOP
VICTORIA REDEL
This week-long poetry intensive will be a generative workshop. Students will write daily, trying to push against and through their preconceptions of the poems they write. What are our own imposed limitations? What kind of poem do we think we write? Should write? Are allowed to write? Through writing, discussion and reading, we will explore ways of thinking about our relationship to our own work and to poems. A chance to play with shaping, revising, making new poems.Biography
Victoria Redel is the author of three books of poetry and three books of fiction. Woman without Umbrella, her recent collection of poetry was published in 2012. A new collection of stories is forthcoming in fall 2013. Her latest novel,The Border of Truth (Counterpoint 2007) weaves the situation of refugees and a daughter’s awakening to the history and secrets of her father’s survival and loss. Loverboy (2001, Graywolf /2002, Harcourt), was awarded the 2001 S. Mariella Gable Novel Award and the 2002 Forward Silver Literary Fiction Prize and was chosen in 2001 as a Los Angeles Times Best Book. Loverboy was adapted for a feature film directed by Kevin Bacon. Swoon (2003, University of Chicago Press), was a finalist for the James Laughlin Award. Her work has been widely anthologized and translated. Redel’s fiction, poetry and essays have appeared in numerous magazines and journals including Granta.com, Harvard Review, The Quarterly, The Literarian, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, O the Oprah magazine, Elle, Bomb, More and NOON. Redel is on the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fine Arts Work Center.
Students in this class (click on a name to see a sample of their work):
Marta Rives
Triona McMorrow
Carolyn Boll
Elizabeth Majerus
Jonathan Weinert
Rebecca Foust
Kristina Bicher
TAKEN FROM LIFE: AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND FICTION
RICHARD McCANN
"The secret in writing," writes Dorothy Allison, "is that fiction never exceeds the reach of the writer’s courage… until I started telling the stories that were hardest for me, writing about exactly the things that I was most afraid of and unsure about, I wasn’t writing worth a damn." In this intensive workshop for prose writers of all levels, we’ll work toward the writing of those life stories — whether in fiction or in memoir — that seem the hardest and most necessary to tell. We’ll spend half our time on generative exercises designed to help us locate the images that contain the stories of our lives, and half in critical discussion of student works-in-progress.Biography
Richard McCann is the author of Mother of Sorrows (Vintage, 2006), winner of the 2005 Zacharis Award and named by Amazon as one of the Top 50 Books of 2005, and Ghost Letters (1994 Beatrice Hawley Award, 1994 Capricorn Poetry Award). His work has appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including The O. Henry Prize Stories 2007, The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories, and Best American Essays 2000. Awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center, and the Fulbright and Rockefeller foundations. He currently teaches at American University, serves on the Board of Directors of the PEN Faulkner Foundation and is Member of the Corporation of Yaddo.Students in this class (click on a name to see a sample of their work):
Linda Burke
Diane Brown
Liz Tingley
Maria Baldwin
Kathleen Henry
Janet Banks
Barbara Iannoli
Sandy Silverman
Frances Maher
Ralph Freidin
THE GRAPHIC NOVEL: AT THE INTERSECTION OF WRITING AND DRAWING
JOSH NEUFELD
SARI WILSON
In his seminal work Understanding Comics, cartoonist Scott McCloud writes, “The art form — the medium — known as comics is a vessel which can hold any number of ideas and images.” This class will explore the dynamic realm of sequential art, and the ways that graphic novels/comics can produce powerful moments of frisson between words and images. Some find their way to the form through their writing and others through their art — comics allows for both options. To that end, we as workshop leaders offer two perspectives: that of a cartoonist and that of a writer. We welcome confident storytellers in either, or ideally both, arenas. If you’re “just” a writer, we believe that you can learn to draw in a way that will serve your words.Participants should have an idea for a sequential narrative and preferably some existing notes, scripts, and/or art. We’ll unpack how comics are constructed: from scripting to page layouts to thumbnailing to creating finished art. We’ll explore the ideas and images you bring to the table, and through group feedback generate ways you can hone your vision. We’ll also spend some class time on various collaborative exercises we’ve found useful in producing strong comics work. Although this class focuses on the comics form, experience shows that the skills we develop translate to many other visual storytelling modes — including storyboards, video games, and even PowerPoint presentations.
Biography
Josh Neufeld is the writer/artist of the bestselling A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge (Pantheon) and the illustrator of the bestselling The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media (W.W. Norton). He was a 2012-2013 Knight-Wallace Fellow in journalism at the University of Michigan. As part of the U.S. Department of State's Speaker and Specialist program, Neufeld has traveled abroad as a “cultural ambassador,” conducting workshops with local cartoonists in such countries as Burma, Egypt, Algeria, Bahrain, and Israel/Palestine. With Sari Wilson, he is co-editing a flash-fiction comics anthology to be published by Butler University in 2013.Sari Wilson’s fiction has appeared in literary journals such as Agni, Slice, Third Coast, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize; her comics writing has been anthologized in From Girls to Grrrlz: A History of Women’s Comics, and published in The Oxford American and SMITH Magazine. She is the author of the YA nonfiction graphic book Forward 54th! The Story of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment (Scholastic, 2011) and was a contributing editor to the Harvey Award-nominated comics anthology Reading With Pictures. A former Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Fellow, she has received a residency from The Corporation of Yaddo and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in fiction.
Students in this class (click on a name to see a sample of their work):
Jill Samuels
Diana Dube
Denise Pappas
Brigid Moynahan
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