Electrified Poetry with Wisconsin's First Poet Laureate Ellen Kort

WAUKESHA – Come and join a poetic circle with Wisconsin’s first Poet Laureate Ellen Kort!   If you hunger to play and have fun writing and publishing your poetry, this is the workshop for you.  Writing poetry is an essential act of the human heart.  It nourishes the mind and
helps us celebrate who we are and how we can reach out to the world.  Together, we will share the joy of
experimenting and shaping new ideas as we spill our words onto paper.  We will give voice to our own wisdom and the
surprising ways poetry invites us to be amazed! 

This AllWriters’ Celebrity Saturday Event will take place on August 11^th, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

ELLEN KORT served four years as Wisconsin's first Poet Laureate and has traveled throughout the US, New Zealand, Australia, and Japan, offering poetry workshops and readings. She has authored 14 books, has been featured in a wide variety of journals and anthologies, and has received several literary awards. Her poems have been architecturally incorporated in buildings throughout
Wisconsin and Minnesota and included in the Hospice Poetry Recording Project of Seattle. Ellen believes poetry is a "healing art" and facilitates poetry workshops at medical conventions for physicians and psychologists. Her
poem, "Light," has been put to music by Philadelphia composer, Jennifer Higdon, and performed at the Weidner Center by the Green Bay Symphony.

This Celebrity Saturday event has a fee of $85, which
includes lunch, catered by Café de Art! You can register by calling 262-446-0284, or going online at www.allwriters.org., click on Celebrity
Saturdays.

AllWriters’ Workplace and Workshop offers on-site and online writing courses in all genres and abilities of creative writing, as well as coaching and editing services.  A schedule of classes and registration is available online at www.allwriters.org or you can call 262-446-0284.  AllWriters’ is located at 234 Brook Street, Unit 2, in historic downtown Waukesha.