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Good Poems: A Conspiracy of Friendliness

A poetry writing workshop
Eight Monday mornings, Jan. 26 to March 22
(no class Feb. 16) 10am to noon
Led by Lynn Trombetta

In this workshop we will use the anthology Good Poems Selected and Introduced by Garrison Keillor. Working from an anthology, rather than from a single poet's body of work, we will be introduced to many different kinds of poets, and kinds of poetry writing. Keillor offers a spectrum from Emily Dickinson and William Butler Yeats to contemporary poets like Robert Hass and Kay Ryan. Their work will inform and inspire our own writing. We will use some (but not all of) Keillor's themed sections as the basis for our weekly work and assignments.
As always, whether looking at Keillor's poem of choice or our own writings we will focus on the poem's content and on those poetic behaviors (metaphor, music, imagery, line break, syntax, etc.) which craft our poems into works of mind as well as heart. We will study many of the fine poems in this collection; write new poems of our own and strengthen our imaginations and our writing lives.

Lynn Trombetta holds two teaching credentials and a BA in English from SSU. She has studied under major contemporary American poets and brings their insights to her workshops. Her poems have appeared in poetry journals across the country and in 2003 she was a nominee for Poet Laureate of Sonoma County. A member of the Sixteen Rivers Press, a poetry publishing collective based in San Francisco, her first full length collection of poems, Falling World, will be published on April of 2004.

2004

Eight Monday mornings, Jan. 26 to March 22
(no class Feb. 16) 10am to noon