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HOW TO DRAW A GHOST w/ Zachary Schomburg

Outlet 2500 Northeast Sandy Boulevard, Portland

HOW TO DRAW A GHOST Led by Zachary Schomburg First, we’ll talk about how to draw a ghost while looking at a wide range of ghost illustrations. Then we’ll draw ghosts. How do we see ghosts when we draw them? What makes a ghost and what makes a ghost drawing? What kind of ghosts will we be, and how will we be drawn? We’ll take turns reading writing about ghosts as we draw them. And we won’t stop until we’ve drawn the right ghost for us. Secondly, we’ll do some poem writing for/about ghosts. We'll talk about how ghosts can properly haunt a short piece of writing. By the end of the workshop, we’ll each have new drawing of ghosts, and a ghost poem. $25…

$25

Mountain Writers Workshop: Reading as a Writer: A.R. Ammons

Multnomah Friends Meeting House 4312 SE Stark Street, Portland

In this six-week workshop, we'll take a deep dive into the work of A.R. Ammons, one of America's most inventive and prolific poets. From short poems to book-length poems and everything in between, Ammons engages the human predicament with a rare mixture of irreverent humor and philosophical depth. We'll pay special attention to the influence of Taoist thought on Ammons' poetics. But our main concern will be with how the poems are made and how they might open new possibilities for our own work. Two of our six sessions will be devoted to participatnt poems. Our texts will be The Really Short Poems of A.R. Ammons, The Selected Poems, and Garbage. Meets: Tuesdays, 6:00 - 9:00 PM, October 29 to December 3, 2019. Cost:  $300 (Six three-hour…

$300