Poetry Yoga with Susan Elbe

Poets!  It’s time
to stretch!

WAUKESHA – Just like anyone else, writers like familiarity.
Comfort. Routine.  But when you live a
creative life, routine can’t be part of the successful writer’s portfolio.  Join poet Susan Elbe for Poetry Yoga to find
the flexible muscle in your own writing!    

In this workshop, you will explore strategies to achieve
a stylistic change. You will work to stop repeating ourselves by challenging
how we perceive, by risking failure in order to grow. As Louise Glück says,
“...oftentimes when you change, the new poems, the adventurous poems, may be
less successful,” but you have to be willing to go back to being a beginner. Together,
we'll look at how other poets have changed their style, we will generate new
poems, and see how we can take old poems to a new place. Bring your notebook
and pen, and two of your own poems that you feel are typical of your voice and
style. This workshop is designed for poets who want to stretch their
boundaries. Reach up. Breathe.

This event will be on September 24, 2011, from 9:00 a.m.
to 2:00 p.m., at AllWriters’ Workplace & Workshop, 234 Brook St., Unit 2,
in Waukesha.  The fee is $85 and includes
lunch.  You can register by calling
262-446-0284 or going online at www.allwriters.org, and click on Celebrity
Saturdays. 

SUSAN ELBE is the author of Eden in the Rearview Mirror
(Word Press, 2007) and a chapbook, Light Made from Nothing (Parallel Press).
Her poems appear or are forthcoming in many journals and anthologies, including
Ascent, Blackbird, Calyx, MARGIE, Nimrod, North American Review, Ocho, Salt
Hill, Valparaiso Poetry Review, A Fierce Brightness: Twenty-five Years of
Women's Poetry (Calyx Books), On Retirement: 75 Poems (University of Iowa
Press), Cadence of Hooves: A Celebration of Horses (Yarroway Mountain Press),
and Eating the Pure Light: Homage to Thomas McGrath (Backwaters Press). Among
her awards are the Lorine Niedecker Award, the inaugural Calyx Lois Cranston
Memorial Poetry Prize, and fellowships to Vermont Studio Center and Virginia
Center for Creative Arts. Susan currently serves on the Council for Wisconsin
Writers Board. She lives in Madison and you can learn more about her at
www.susanelbe.com. She believes we must never stop growing as writers.

AllWriters’ Workplace and Workshop offers on-site and
online writing courses in all genres and abilities of creative writing, as well
as coaching, editing, and marketing services. 
A schedule of classes and registration is available online at
http://www.allwriters.org or you can call 262-446-0284.