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Writing the Poem Workshop w Ashley Toliver | Sep 16 – Oct 14

Attic Institute 4232 SE Hawthorne, Portland, OR, United States

What happens when we expand our creative focus and let go of our expectations? In this workshop, we'll use writing practices and generative techniques, explore poems and strategies, all with the goal of completing the workshop with a handful of new poems. Can we find liberation from the pressures we place on ourselves and our work? Join the experiment and let's find out! Maximum: 12 writers. Register for this workshop Teacher: Ashley Toliver Time: Mondays, Sep 16 - Oct 14, 5:30 - 7:30pm, 5 weeks Location: Attic Institute of Arts and Letters, 4232 SE Hawthorne Boulevard Total Fee: Early Registration and Tuition Deadline is seven (7) days prior to the start of the workshop. | Early Registration: $210 (cash/check); $222 (Paypal). | Late Registration: $225…

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$210 – $237

Mother Foucault’s: Arthur / Barclay / Kuipers / Toliver

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR, United States

A poetry reading by James Arthur, Adèle Barclay, Keetje Kuipers, and Ashley Toliver. Canadian-American poet JAMES ARTHUR is the author of The Suicide’s Son (Véhicule Press 2019) and Charms Against Lightning (Copper Canyon Press, 2012.) His poems have also appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The New York Review of Books, The American Poetry Review, The New Republic, and The London Review of Books. He has received the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship, a Hodder Fellowship, a Stegner Fellowship, a Discovery/The Nation Prize, a Fulbright Scholarship to the Seamus Heaney Centre in Northern Ireland, and a Visiting Fellowship at the University of Oxford. Arthur lives in Baltimore, where he teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. ADÈLE BARCLAY’s writing has appeared in The…

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Free

Revising the Poem Workshop w Ashley Toliver

Attic Institute 4232 SE Hawthorne, Portland, OR, United States

Where can revision take us when we're not too attached to our creative work? What new avenues can we discover by taking risks and having the courage to experiment? In this workshop, we'll share works-in-progress and engage deeply with each other's drafts as we write our way into new poems. You'll learn different ways of looking at your own work, acquire new strategies for tackling creative indecision, and come away with a more concrete understanding of how to know when a poem is "finished." | Maximum: 12 writers Register for this workshop Teacher: Ashley Toliver Time: Mondays, Oct 21 - Nov 18, 5:30 - 7:30pm, 5 weeks Location: Attic Institute of Arts and Letters, 4232 SE Hawthorne Boulevard Total Fee: Early Registration and Tuition Deadline…

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$210 – $237

THE LUMINOUS DARK w/ Ashley Toliver

Outlet 2500 Northeast Sandy Boulevard, Portland, OR, United States

A Poetry Intensive led by Ashley Toliver. Description TBD

Free

Wallflowers: A Reading Series

Abigail Hall 813 SW Alder St, Portland, OR, United States

Sunday January 19th! Come out to @abigailhallpdx and see these great writers read original work and writing by women who have informed their craft! @radish_king @iamstillmelia @nataliegaryet @caitlin_delohery A monthly reading series in Abigail Hall honoring a lineage of women writers // Curated by @aamebel & @tyler.sowa

Free

FALL Online: Poetry of the Ecstatic Unknown Workshop w Ashley Toliver

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

“Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous ‘I don’t know.’” ~ Wisława Szymborska In this class, we’ll approach writing as an emergent process, using Gertrude Stein’s famous line, “And then there is using everything” as our guide and north star. Each session, we’ll work to connect with the inherent and subtle creativity of the body through exercises designed to help us cross the threshold to what is unknown. In the spirit of shared experiment, we’ll push our poetic inquiries further through selected readings from contemporary poetry and assignments geared toward exploring this new new territory of the interior. Through sustained experimentation, interaction and collaboration, you’ll find new fluidity in your work and open the potential for grace in the process. Register for this workshop…

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$215 – $242

FALL Online: Experiments in Poetic Revision Workshop w Ashley Toliver

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

THE LUMINOUS DARK - EXPERIMENTS IN POETIC REVISION Through experimentation with radical revision and embodied writing exercises, we'll tap into our inner knowing to find more wildness in our work and more freedom in the creative process. Come armed with 10-20 unfinished poems and an openness to pursuing intuitive pathways in this dynamic class. | Maximum: 14 writers Register for this workshop NOTE: To protect everyone during the COVID-19 pandemic, we're offering our workshops via Zoom. All students must first sign up for a free Zoom account. Setting it up is easy. And we can help you with questions, if needed. For each class, you'll receive a Zoom "invitation," from the instructor. Click the link...follow the simple directions about the settings for your microphone and in-computer video, and you're immediately in the…

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$215 – $242

Attic Institute: WINTER Online: Poetry of the Ecstatic Unknown Workshop w Ashley Toliver | Jan 19 – Feb 16

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

“Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous ‘I don’t know.’” ~ Wisława Szymborska In this class, we’ll approach writing as an emergent process, using Gertrude Stein’s famous line, “And then there is using everything” as our guide and north star. Each session, we’ll work to connect with the inherent and subtle creativity of the body through exercises designed to help us cross the threshold to what is unknown. In the spirit of shared experiment, we’ll push our poetic inquiries further through selected readings from contemporary poetry and assignments geared toward exploring this new new territory of the interior. Through sustained experimentation, interaction and collaboration, you’ll find new fluidity in your work and open the potential for grace in the process. Register for this workshop…

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$215 – $242

Attic Institute: WINTER Online: Writing the New Poem Workshop w Ashley Toliver | Feb 23 – Mar 23

Attic Institute 4232 SE Hawthorne, Portland, OR, United States

What happens when we expand our creative focus and let go of our expectations? In this workshop, we'll use writing practices and generative techniques, explore poems and strategies, all with the goal of completing the workshop with a handful of new poems. Can we find liberation from the pressures we place on ourselves and our work? Join the experiment and let's find out! Register for this workshop NOTE: To protect everyone during the COVID-19 pandemic, we're offering our workshops via Zoom. All students must first sign up for a free Zoom account. Setting it up is easy. And we can help you with questions, if needed. For each class, you'll receive a Zoom "invitation," from the instructor. Click the link...follow the simple directions about the settings for your microphone and…

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$215 – $242

Proof of Stake Book Launch

Oregon Contemporary (formerly DISJECTA) 8371 N Interstate Avenue, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for the launch of Charles Valle's book-length poem, Proof of Stake: An Elegy, featuring readings by Charles, Ashley Toliver, Stephanie Adams-Santos and Robert Lashley.

Free
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