
Embodied Poetics for Writers with Peggy Dobreer
ClassesSummer Classes 2019|#2700.208
Description
How does the world change when we look through the lens of the Camera Obscura? What other lenses are we privy to? What does 'spectacle' have to do with poetry? What does poetry have to do with other genres? And what does everything mentioned have to do with the body of the writer?
Come explore prompts that activate the senses and invite more rhythm, surprise, and specificity to your writing in this generative workshop. Develop the receptivity of your writer's body by exploring these questions in a quick-moving but contemplative workshop experience.
Writers of diverse practices welcome: different genres have much to gain from each other in this practice. Wear walking shoes and comfortable attire.
"Until I took Peggy Dobreer's workshop I never knew movement could open such rich avenues of play and invention in my writing process. Dobreer's approach is magical." - Janet Fitch, White Oleander, Paint it Black, The Revolution of Marina M.
Peggy Dobreer is a longtime educator and former dancer, who taught with Red Hen Press for Writing in the Schools, and was a Program Director for AROHO2015 at A Room of Her Own Foundation. She has one pushcart nomination from Cadence Collective, and two books with Moon Tide Press: Drop & Dazzle in 2018 and In the Lake of Your Bones in 2012. Her poems were featured in the Aeolian Harp Folio Series, Vol.I by Glass Lyre Press and upcoming in Vol.V, and she has been published in Cultural Weekly, The Rise Up Review, Pirene's Fountain, For the Love of Words, Mas Tequilla Press, Malpais Review, and LA Yoga Magazine among others. Peggy has curated and promoted other poets in venues around LA for 15 years. Visit her at peggydobreer.com.
The Camera Obscura Art Lab hosts six artists-in-residence annually, and offers workshops with a changing roster of residents and teaching artists. Here you can learn dance moves, polish your writing, sew a seam, check out artists at work and find a creative community!
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