The Highland Park Literary Festival is honored that these accomplished authors, poets, dramatists, journalists, and songwriters will present workshops this year.
Glenn Arbery has taught literature for the past 25 years. The author of Why Literature Matters (2001) and editor of The Tragic Abyss (2004), he was director of the Teachers Academy at the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture before joining People Newspapers as a senior editor. His film and play reviews appear weekly in Park Cities People, and he writes a monthly column on theater for D Magazine, one of which won a Katie Award last year from the Press Club of Dallas. Mr. Arbery's workshop, "Poaching Like Shakespeare," ties into this year's HPHS Classic Series play, The Comedy of Errors, which will be performed during Festival week. An early legend about Shakespeare said that as a youth he was imprisoned and beaten for poaching deer. That story has been discredited, but there's no question that Shakespeare poached creatively from other writers, especially in his early plays. The Comedy of Errors, based on Menaechmi by the Roman Plautus, shows how Shakespeare took an old story, made it new, and added his own distinct twists. In this writing workshop, we'll look at how writers can now do the same thing with Shakespeare himself. [students: register here]
Kay Barnes is the author of Mortal Means, a book of poetry published by Cherry Grove Collections in 2004 and short-listed for the PEN Southwest Book Award in poetry in 2005. Her poems have been published in America, International Poetry Review, Kansas Quarterly, The Midwest Review, Poetry, and other journals and anthologies. She lives in University Park. She received her MFA in poetry writing from Vermont College and an MA in French from Middlebury College. Ms. Barnes' workshop is titled "Poetry in the Moment." We'll explore your own on-the-spot creativity. Bring paper, pencil, eraser, and a willingness to experiment. You will learn some of the ways poets trick themselves into writing poems, the games they play to stay in practice. [students: register here]
Talmage Boston is a Dallas author, newspaper columnist, and trial lawyer. His writing focus is on baseball and its place in American life. His books include 1939: Baseball's Tipping Point, forward by John Grisham (Bright Sky Press 2005), and his next book, Baseball and the Baby Boomer: Stories of a Generation, will be released by Bright Sky Press in January 2009, with a foreword by Frank Deford. He is a regular columnist and reviewer for The Dallas Business Journal and Park Cities People, and his columns and reviews have appeared over 60 times in the Dallas Morning News. Mr. Boston has taught at Princeton University on "Baseball and the American Experience," been a featured speaker at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and last year spoke on "Management by Baseball" at SMU's Cox School of Business. He is a media member of the Texas Baseball Hall of Fame. Mr. Boston's workshop is entitled "Writing a Newspaper Column That Snaps, Crackles, and Pops." [students: register here]
Terri Brown-Davidson holds a Ph.D., M.F.A., and M.A. in English, poetry, and fiction. She is a writing coach in Albuquerque, runs online writing workshops in poetry and fiction, and teaches creative writing at the University of New Mexico. Her first book of poetry, The Carrington Monologues, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Her first novel, Marie, Marie: Hold On Tight, was discussed in The Writer and received excellent reviews. Ms. Brown-Davidson was awarded the 2007 New Mexico Writers Scholarship and has also received an AWP Intro Award in poetry, a Yaddo Fellowship in fiction, eleven nominations for the Pushcart Prize, and inclusion in Triquarterly New Writers. Her fiction, poetry, and visual art have appeared in more than 900 publications. She is portrait artist who uses colored pencil to acheieve the saturated effects and textures of oils. A practitioner of Shorin Ryu, she is earning her green belt in karate. Her workshop, "How to Become the Renaissance Soul You Already Are" explores whether sometimes, in writing, "More is more." Deep investment in multiple genres (poetry, fiction) can not only enrich your life but also improve and alter the passion, excitement, and purpose in your writing. Cross-disciplinary work provides examples of mind-body fusion and stimulates new modes of perception. Using her own investment in poetry, fiction, visual art, and martial arts, Ms. Brown-Davidson explores this topic and suggests how cross-genre work can deepen your artistic life. [students: register here]
Will Clarke has been described as "the local adman-turned-genius-novelist who "burst onto the literary scene like a kid cannonballing off the high-dive." Mr. Clarke's 2005 debut novel, Lord Vishu's Love Handles is in production at Paramount Pictures, and his most recent novel, The Worthy: A Ghost's Story is under development at Sony Pictures. Both novels were praised in a double review last year by The New York Times. Mr. Clarke says, "I got my start as a professional novelist through Amazon.com and the Internet. People were able to find my work as an unknown writer just by clicking around on the Web, and from there my readership grew and grew until finally my first novel got picked up by a Hollywood studio and by a major publisher. I feel certain that without the Internet I would never have been published." Mr. Clarke lives in Dallas. His workshop will be "'See Jack and Meg. See Jack and Meg rock.' — The Literary Lessons of The White Stripes" [students: register here]
The poetry of Sarah Cortez ("How To Undress A Cop", Arte Público 2000) brings the world of street policing to the reader in a way that poet-reviewer Ed Hirsch describes as "nervy, quick-hitting, street-smart." Winner of the 1999 PEN Texas Literary award in poetry and other juried designations, Ms. Cortez is a much-in-demand creative writing teacher and visiting poet. She was awarded two consecutive one-year appointments as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Houston's Center for Mexican American Studies. One of her poems was chosen for the nationwide "Poetry In Motion" program and many others have been anthologized. She is a Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She edited "Urban-Speak: Poetry of the City" (University of Houston, Center for Mexican American Studies, 2001) and "Windows Into My World: Latino Youth Write Their Lives" (Arte Público, 2007), an anthology of short memoir essays written by young men and women across the U.S. reflecting the diversity of growing up Latino in the United States. Ms. Cortez will present two different workshops. "Write Now: Poetry Right Now" will help even the student who doesn't like poetry to see the potential in daily life for creating the imagistic link from the conscious world to the unconscious world that defines a poem. Writing exercises will help create intrepid habits for the student's future writing life. "The Resonance of Memory" will expand the student's vision of how to create levels of complexity that make a memoir satisfying both to the reader and the writer. Writing exercises will open doors into possibilities for future explorations on the page for each writer. In addition to conducting workshops, Ms. Cortez will be the freshman class assembly speaker. [students: register here]
Molly Caldwell Crosby
is a native of Dallas and an HPHS alum. Her first book, The American Plague, has been nominated for the Southern Independent Booksellers Award, Barnes & Noble Discover Award, and Border's Original Voices Award, and was a New York Times Editor's Pick in November 2006. The New York Times Book Review called her book "engrossing...a first rate medical detective drama," and Newsweek hailed it as "gripping...highly readable." Ms. Crosby holds a Master's degree in nonfiction and science writing from Johns Hopkins University. She worked for National Geographic magazine for six years, and her writing has appeared in Newsweek, Health, and USA Today. She lives in Memphis with her husband and two daughters, and is currently at work on her next book. Ms. Crosby's workshop, "Narrative Nonfiction Books: Bringing the Past to Life," will focus on the creative techniques and detailed research that turn a nonfiction story into a page-turner. She will also talk about publishing a book as a first-time author. [students: register here]
Linda Daugherty's plays have been produced throughout the U.S. and abroad, including at Dallas Children's Theater; The Kennedy Center; Stage One, The Louisville Children's Theatre; Portland's Northwest Children's Theatre; the Edinburgh Festival, Scotland; Savonlinna City Theatre, Finland; and NYU's Department of Educational Theater. Ms. Daugherty is Playwright in Residence at the Dallas Children's Theater. Her new play, EAT (It's not about food.), which deals with eating disorders, will premier at the Dallas Children's Theater in the Spring of 2008. Ms. Daugherty's workshop, "Get Started on the Play You've Always Wanted to Write will provide hands-on work on dialogue, stage directions and how to turn your ideas into a script. [students: register here]
Bridget Foley is a Dallas-based writer whose work has appeared in Conde Nast Women's Sports and Fitness, YogaChicago, and The Essential Chicago. She is the author of a memoir, Necessary Utterances, a novel, Big Girl, and is at work on her second novel, Channeling Audrey Hepburn. She recently won the Writers League of Texas Memoir Prize, and has been short-listed for the Surrey Writers Conference Nonfiction Contest. Ms. Foley teaches writing classes on fiction and memoir, coaches other writers, and offers seminars on yoga and writing as life process tools. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a JD from Loyola University of Chicago, and is the recipient of five residencies at The Ragdale Foundation for Writers and Artists. She lives in Lakewood with her husband, jazz pianist William Foley, and their feline fur child, Ping Pong. Ms. Foley's workshop, "It was a dark and plotless night . . . ," will explore ways to create convincing, scintillating plots that will help you craft your short stories, novels, and even creative non-fiction into page-turners your readers can't put down. [students: register here]
Leslie Garcia, an HPHS alum, has spent 28 years at The Dallas Morning News, where she primarily writes for the Lifestyles section. She also helps cover breaking news, including the Challenger and Columbia space-shuttle explosions, the Oklahoma City bombings, and the September 11 terrorist attacks. Since 2005, she has been a bi-weekly columnist in the Lifestyles section; her topics have included being nice, finding magic in a hospital, wondering how her son suddenly became 12-going-on-20. She generates ideas and works with editors, an artist and photographer to implement them. She is one of six reporters chosen to share with other News staffers their expertise in finding sources and developing strategies for asking questions. She has won a James Beard Foundation Award for Excellence and a Dallas Press Club Katie Award. Her workshop is titled "Encouraging People to Talk, and Readers to Keep Reading." Everybody has a story. Some are obvious; others take a little digging. Ms. Garcia will give hints on finding sources and then getting them to open up to you. She'll also talk about what makes stories interesting, and ways to keep readers entranced till the end. [students: register here]
Randy Gordon is a partner in the law firm of Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP, and an Adjunct Professor of Law at SMU. In his life outside the law, Mr. Gordon is a member of the Literary Festival committee, a Lecturer in English at SMU, past Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, a fellow of the Dallas Institute of Humanities, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Hiett Prize, the largest humanities-specific prize in the U.S. He is also an elected member of the Society of Writers to Her Majesty’s Signet and an Advisory Board Member of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, the Hall Center for the Humanities, and the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas. A frequent lecturer and writer, he is Senior Host of "The Writer's Studio," a series of interviews with contemporary authors heard on KERA and National Public Radio. Mr. Gordon says, "You only have to walk into a bookstore or library to see that it's a reader's market—there are millions of books to choose from." His workshop, "So you want to be a reader, huh?," will help you make those choices. In this session we're going to discuss the reading life and what it means to be a "real" reader. Along the way, we'll discover that reading and writing are not that different. [students: register here]
Kelli Herd has written, co-written, and directed several scripts and features, including Hard Twist, Sporty Girls, Sweet Sang, and It's In the Water. She has been a featured speaker and panelist at film festivals and industry events. She is a script coach to writers and producers and teaches screenwriting courses at her alma mater, SMU. Several of her students have gone on to win screenwriting contests, work for motion picture studios, and successfully break into the professional screenwriting business. She is the recipient of the 2002 Rotunda Outstanding Professor of the Year Award, Fall 2004 Panhellenic Best Professor, and 2005 HOPE Professor of the Year. Featured as one of 20 Great Dallasites in the 20th Anniversary Edition of the Dallas Voice and a Women-in-Film honoree at the Fair Park Film Festival, Ms. Herd also received the Uncommon Legacy's Extra Mile Award honoring Outstanding Women of Dallas. She belongs to the American Screenwriting Association, Texas Association of Film/Tape Professionals and is an Executive Member of Women in Film. Her screenwriting workshop is titled "Dynamic Screenwriting - Put the movie in your head on the page instead." [students: register here]
Skip Hollandsworth was raised in Wichita Falls and graduated with a B.A. in English from TCU. He has been a reporter and columnist for newspapers in Dallas and worked as a television producer and documentary filmmaker. Since joining Texas Monthly in 1989, Mr. Hollandsworth has received several journalism awards, including a National Headliners Award, the City and Regional Magazine gold award for feature writing, the Texas Institute of Letters O. Henry award for magazine writing, and the Headliners Club of Austin's Charles Green award for outstanding magazine writing in Texas. He is four-time finalist for the National Magazine Awards, the magazine industry's equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. His work is in publications such as Best American Crime Writing and Best American Magazine Writing. Mr. Hollandsworth's workshop, "The Power of Narrative Nonfiction," will explore how all sorts of stories—from murder mysteries to travel adventures to historical sagas—can be absolutely factual narratives told using techniques that are almost like fiction. [students: register here]
Gordon Keith is a writer and broadcaster. His column is published weekly in Quick, the perfumed younger sister of the Dallas Morning News. Mr. Keith is a three-time Marconi award finalist for his radio work as co-host of the morning show on "The Ticket" 1310am in Dallas. He hosts his own television show, "The Gordon Keith Show," broadcast on WFAA Channel 8. He has appeared in Maxim magazine and was named one of the 10 Best New Media Stars of 2007 by D Magazine. His workshop, "The worst things you can do if you want to be a real writer," promises to be illuminating. [students: register here]
Robert Krout is Director of Music Therapy and Chair of the Department of Music Education, Pedagogy, and Therapy in the Meadows School at SMU. In New Zealand, he started that country's first university music therapy program. He earned a master's and doctorate in music education and music therapy from Columbia. Dr. Krout has recorded seven independent albums and published and presented widely in the US, New Zealand, Australia, the UK, and Europe. Acoustic Guitar and Grammy magazines have interviewed him about songwriting. His passion is bringing ideas to life through the singer-songwriter via literary techniques that craft a dynamic interplay of words and music. His workshop, "Crafting Creativity — Words and Music Become Songs via the Contemporary Singer-Songwriter," will explore the dynamic relationship between words and music. Topics include how words and music work together to enhance creative expression, goals of the songwriter, sources of inspiration, crafting lyrics, telling story through a song, literary techniques in lyrics, constructing melodies, harmonies, and chord progressions, and putting these elements together as a singer-songwriter. Songs will be shared to illustrate the topics. [students: register here]
Farid Matuk is a Peruvian-born poet, essayist, translator and teacher. His work has appeared in Borderlands, Lungfull, Painted Bride Quarterly, and Bombay Gin, among others. He is the author of Is it the King? (Effing Press, 2006). He teaches at St. Mark's School of Texas and lives with the poet Susan Briante in Dallas. His workshop, "Doing Things with Words," will focus on specific techniques to help your poetry do more than it tells. Writing exercises, examples texts, and encouraging group dynamic will all come together to help turn your poems into experiences. [students: register here]
Ann McCutchan is the author of Marcel Moyse: Voice of the Flute (Amadeus Press) and The Muse That Sings: Composers Speak About the Creative Process (Oxford University Press). Her personal essays have been published in Boulevard, Image, Cimarron Review, and other literary journals; a recent essay appeared
in The Best American Spiritual Writing 2007 (Houghton Mifflin). Current projects include Water Music, a memoir of experiences along the coasts of Florida, Mississippi and Louisiana, blending a personal narrative of musical life with a meditation on birdsong, weather, and other natural phenomena. Ann has received fellowships and residencies from the Rockefeller Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the National Park Service, and others. She teaches creative writing at the University of North Texas and is prose editor of American Literary Review. Ms. McCutchan's workshop, "Discovering Your Voice Through the Personal Essay," will focus on mining and shaping personal experience to create powerful, complex, and surprising work. [students: register here]
Robert Nelsen is director of Creative Writing and associate professor at The University of Texas at Dallas (Aesthetics and Literary Studies). His areas of specialization include fiction writing (novels and short stories), 20th Century American Literature, and southern literature. His published short fiction has appeared in numerous literary magazines. In his workshop, "Writing What You Don't Know," Mr. Nelsen will demonstrate that fiction writers are not born "writers"; rather, writers grow and develop. Students will learn to write sentence by sentence (rather than via plot) so that each sentence (1) plays an integral part in the story, (2) builds toward an epiphany, and (3) affects readers. The workshop will also concentrate on useful techniques to build a "vivid, continuous dream." Again this year, Mr. Nelsen will judge the "Short Fiction" submissions for the student writing contest. [students: register here]
Robert Shapard's anthologies of sudden and flash fiction have sold nearly half a million copies. The latest are New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond (2007) and Flash Fiction Forward (2006), both from W. W. Norton. They feature very short stories by many outstanding contemporary writers. Last January, stories from New Sudden Fiction were read by actors at Symphony Space on Broadway, for later airing throughout the year on National Public Radio's "Selected Shorts" program. A collection of Robert's own short-shorts, Motel and Other Stories, won the Predator Press national chapbook competition in 2005. Mr. Shapard, an HPHS alum, taught writing for more than twenty years at the University of Hawaii, before moving to Austin recently. In his workshop, students will brainstorm ideas, start writing stories, and begin to develop them, and there will be some reading and discussion about what flash and sudden fiction are, in the first place. [students: register here]
Scott Simon is the host of National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Saturday and this year's Keynote Speaker. A Peabody-Award-winning radio journalist, Mr. Simon has traveled the world reporting on everything from wars and disasters to opening nights. He has interviewed the most interesting personalities of the times. Mr. Simon also is an accomplished author. His first book, Home and Away: Memoir of a Fan, was published in 2000. Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball, the 2002 Barnes and Noble Sports Book of the Year, was reissued in 2007 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinsons' entry into the major leagues. Pretty Birds, his 2005 novel about teenage girls during the siege of Sarajevo, was acclaimed as "the start of a brilliant new career." His next novel, a political comedy titled Windy City, will be published in March 2008. [students: register here]
Claudia Smith holds an M.A. from the Writing Seminars Program at Johns Hopkins, an M.L.I.S. from the University of Texas, and a B.A. in Literature from Bard College. Twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, her fiction has appeared in over fifty literary journals, including Redivider, The Mississippi Review online, Juked, Failbetter, Elimae, Night Train, 3:AM Magazine, and Literary Mama. Her stories have been anthologized in W.W. Norton's The New Sudden Fiction, So New Media's Consumed: Women on Excess, and are forthcoming in Social Disease's The Offbeat Generation, The Snowvigate anthology, Online Writing: The Best of the First Ten Years, and So New Publishing's The Bush Years. Her collection, The Sky Is A Well And Other Shorts, won Rose Metal Press's first short-short chapbook competition, and will be published this winter. Find more of her work www.claudiaweb.net. "Color me; a Flash Fiction exercise," will introduce Flash Fiction. Sometimes called "short-shorts," "sudden fiction," or, in China, "smoke-long stories"— these works are just long enough to read while smoking a cigarette. Characterized by powerful imagery and clear, concise language, the form has gained popularity with the advent of online literary magazines. Students will challenge themselves by experimenting with this deceptively simple form. [students: register here]
Marc Solomon is a Dallas musician. After graduating from the famous Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing Arts in Dallas, and gigging in clubs in which he could not drink, he did what any self respecting Dallas musician would do: he moved to Austin. During several recording and touring projects in Austin, Los Angeles, and New York, Mr. Solomon penned somewhere close to three hundred songs. Upon his return to Dallas in 1999 he formed Clumsy. In 2005, his current band, Solly, recorded "Get it wrong it's alright", which was chosen by Performing Songwriter magazine as one of the years top ten DIY releases. Solly has had songs featured in television programs such as Lost, The Ghost Whisperer, and Beverly Hills 90210. He is also the founder and director of "Zounds Sounds," a music education and training project that was the subject of a Dallas Observer feature article in 2005. At the Lit-Fest, Mr. Solomon will present three songwriting workshops. [students: register here]
Lori Ann Stephens, a nearly-native Texan, grew up in the Dallas suburbs, storing little memories and placing them like stones in her pocket. When it's time to write, she pulls out those "stones," gives them a good rub, and sees what they inspire. A former Creative Writing teacher at UT-Dallas and HPHS, Dr. Stephens teaches composition courses at SMU and focuses her creative energy on her two sons and her novel manuscripts. Her stories and poetry have been widely published and won finalist places in national competitions, including the Glimmer Train Stories National Fiction Open. Her novel manuscript for young readers, Boarders, received an honorable mention from the 2006 PeaceWriting Awards. Dr. Stephens's workshop is titled, "If you love me, check YES." If your love letters, essays, and daily conversations are insipid, dripping with tired clichés, this workshop will help you create original, tantalizing metaphors and descriptions through epistolary writing (that's letter-writing, in layman's terms). We'll practice describing the indescribable: love and our beloved. With help from Shakespeare and other love-struck crooners, you'll be singing your own authentic, breathtaking metaphors in a crafted love letter before you leave. Bring your stationery and your pining heart. [students: register here]
Beatriz Terrazas, a freelance writer and photojournalist, has covered assignments ranging from political conventions to Pope John Paul II's historic visit to Cuba, from the history of Mexican vanilla to what the Rio Grande means to people along its 1900-mile journey. Her work has been honored by the American Society of Sunday and Feature Editors, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, the James Beard Journalism Awards, and the American Society of Travel Writers. She was part of a Dallas Morning News team of reporters and photographers who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for the project "Violence Against Women: A Question of Human Rights." She was awarded a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University in 1998. She lives in the Dallas area and co-directs the Community and Mentorship Project for The Writer's Garret. Her workshop is titled, "Photojournalism: Exploring the Power of Images." If available, students should bring a camera to the workshop. [students: register here]
James van Loon wrote the novel, Double Journey, and co-authored the novel, Echoes From The Edge. His artistic journey is one of many divergent paths, spanning a brief career as a radio disc jockey, an introspective experience as a monk in the Marist order, and academic studies of philosophy and psychology in several European and North American universities. His peregrinations have taken him to the cobbled streets of old European towns speckled with cafes and compelling characters, where he nurtured his passion for writing. He has lectured on social narratives and the symbolic systems of fiction and film at universities in Italy, Spain, Germany, Sweden, England, and now Texas. His workshop, "Collaborative Writing & Psychological Narratives," is about different cultural perspectives, psyches, and different virtual worlds. He will discuss collaborative writing, whereby a story is written between two voices, and will explore the dynamics of male and female psychology in the narratives portrayed in Echoes From The Edge. [students: register here]
Ross Vick is the dad of two HPHS grads and two HPISD current students. Four years ago, he left a successful career in toy and consumer products to pursue a career in songwriting, recording and performing. With his band, TrueHeart, he has opened for the Beach Boys, performed at The Cavern Club in Liverpool, and recorded four CDs. Their most recent CD, "The Road," was just released; its title track reached the Billboard Top 30 Hot Adult Contemporary Charts in only a month — quite a feat for an independent artist and songwriter. For a songwriter, finding something to say is always challenging; but it's only part of the challenge. Finding time to write songs while creating and maintainng websites and meeting with radio stations, music-industry executives, managers, and musicians is a conundrum, especially when the songs must be recorded at the highest level on a timely basis for radio air play and promotion. Technology's opportunities are offset by the clutter a musician must wade through to find a home, an audience and, hopefully, some success. Ross' workshop will include insight into the music industry as well as the song creating process from the first moment of inspiration to the finished product played on the radio. [students: register here]
Joaquín Zihuatanejo is a poet, spoken word artist, and award-winning teacher. Born and raised in East Dallas' barrio, Mr. Zihuatanejo's work captures the duality of the Chicano culture. He depicts the essence of barrio life, writing about a youth existing between the streets of the barrio and the dream wanderings of a boy who found refuge in a world of stories and poems. A National Poetry Slam Finalist, Grand Slam Spoken Word Champion, and HBO Def Poet, he has performed all over the Unites States and Canada. In 2005, he was featured on HBO's "Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry." Filmed in front of a packed live audience in New York City, his performance received a standing ovation. He placed second at the 2006 Individual World Poetry Slam Championship, besting 79 poets from 80 cities and six countries. His dynamic performance at the 2006 National Association for Campus Activities National Conference in Boston led to a year-long cross-country university tour. He has shared a stage with Saul Williams, E. Lynn Harris, Alicia Keys, and Maya Angelou among others. For seven years, he taught English and creative writing in a public high school, which inspired a new showcase performance and collection of poems from the classroom entitled Stand Up and Be Heard. His workshop, "I SLAM; THEREFORE, I AM," introduces students to slam poetry and aims to inspire them to feel, think and ultimately write and perform, their original works of poetry as effectively and as passionately as possible. The workshop includes exercises students can use to write poems that are conducive to performance. [students: register here]