Poetry And Heat!

Bring poetry into your summer!

WAUKESHA – Poet Mark Kraushaar brings his experience and expertise to AllWriters’ Celebrity Saturday Series, teaching the Poetry and Heat Workshop!  Workshopping can be a scary and an exhilarating experience…and this workshop will show you how best to use workshop criticism.  Students will read and explore their enthusiasm, reservations and suggestions about the work they’ll encounter. Poetry should afford writers a unique opportunity to express themselves in the most effective way possible. As a long time poetry reader and poet, Kraushaar looks for “heat” on the page and his focus will be to help facilitate the process of experimentation, discovery and craft this
requires.

Each poet will bring four or five pages of poetry to
class and should be prepared to read aloud from their work. Class members will discuss their impressions of the work read and what changes they feel might advance that work.

MARK KRAUSHAAR has new work appearing or forthcoming in Ploughshares, Gettysburg Review , Alaska Review and Hudson Review among others. His poetry has been featured in Missouri Review
and Michigan Quarterly and widely anthologized. His work has appeared in Best American Poetry as well as Poetry Daily and has been a recipient of Poetry
Northwest’s Richard Hugo Award. A full length collection “Falling Brick Kills Local Man” was  published in 2009 by University of Wisconsin Press as winner of the Felix Pollak Prize, and a new
collection, “The Uncertainty Principle”, published in the fall of 2011 by Waywiser Press was winner of the Anthony Hecht Prize.

This Celebrity Saturday event will be held on Saturday,
July 21st, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. 
It 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.