TWO MORE DAYS to Apply to Cedar Sigo's Upcoming Poetry Workshop at UPB (Berkeley)

The folks at University Press Books in Berkeley have generously made a little extra space for just a few more students to attend Cedar Sigo's upcoming, jam-packed and very cool Community Poets' Workshop. If you'd like to attend, submit 5-10 poems no later than end of day this Saturday. Complete details are available at UPB's website, which we excerpt from below. Sounds exciting!

Community Poets’ Workshop with Cedar Sigo

Starts: March 10th
Duration: 5 weeks
Course fee: $250

Class Description:
“In this workshop we will spend five weeks using various poetic forms and genres to create a new body of work. We will investigate both classic and contemporary models of translation, the sonnet, L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E writing, the lyric, and performance. While form is often first associated with a clever confining of the voice our weekly assignments will function purely as a trigger and tool for the expansion of our voices. The reading aloud and discussion of these assignments will move us into creating a few new forms together. The poet John Wieners wrote, ‘I cannot imagine a single day when I have not spent dreaming or conjuring certain habits of the poet, fortunate the few who make things surrounding the poets come true.’ This class will no doubt unleash a form of accidental autobiography when I begin to lecture by way of introducing the individual forms, a giving up of the game, a master-key to the mystery of getting started. Students will read aloud every week and we will sometimes write for short periods within the class. I am looking forward to every question. Our approach will be purely in the interest of pleasure. Some of the writers discussed and read aloud will include Bernadette Mayer, Lisa Robertson, Rene Ricard, Philip Lamantia, Ted Berrigan, Guillaume Apollinaire, Stephane Mallarme, Eileen Myles, Leslie Scalapino, David Henderson, Clark Coolidge, Latasha N. Nevada Diggs, Micah Ballard and Julian Talamantez Brolaski.”

The Community Poets’ Workshop will consist of five two-and-a-half-hour sessions, one per week, held on Mondays from 7 – 9:30 pm. There will be a $250 fee to participate, which will cover class materials. Since space is limited, admission to the workshop will be submission-based, with a cap at nine participants. To apply, please send a 5-10 pages of poetry, along with your name, contact information, and a brief statement of why you’d like to participate in the workshop, to [email protected].

Learn more about Cedar Sigo's workshop and many others at University Press Books.