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SADY SPARKS, Olympia's Poet Laureate
Oct. 8th, Tuesday, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Olympia Community Center,
222 Columbia St. NW, Olympia.
Oct. 8th, Tuesday, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Olympia Community Center,
222 Columbia St. NW, Olympia.
Join Olympia's Poet Laureate Sady Sparks as we explore sound, color, and the poetry in each moment. Sady uses erasure poems, prompts, stop watches, and markers to encourage poetry from the mundane. This is for those who love words, detest words, and don't know what to do with words. Bring your excitement, your dread, your teenager, your water bottle. LGBTQ+ friendly. Ages 10-110.
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The Continuous Now: Generating Systems, Series, and Sequences of “Buttons”
with Tristan Beach, Lecturer in English at Saint Martin's University
7 to 9 pm Olympia Community Center, 222 Columbia St NW, Olympia, WA 98501 Sept. 10, Tuesday As poets, we are often compelled to examine our relationships to language and our positions as observers of the ordinary world. In this generative hybrid poetry workshop, inspired by Dana Levin’s workshops on Poetry and the Unconscious, we will create sequences of prose/poems that embody and exemplify this questioning. Guided by Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons, we will capture in language portraits—impressions and associations—the objects, activities, and ideas that populate our daily lives, crafting our own “buttons” in what Stein calls the “continuous now.” To help generate these “buttons,” we will replicate diagrams, litanies, random Tarot card draws, the physical space of the workshop, the human anatomy, whatever is in your closet, a screenshot of phone apps, and other real systems, series, and sequences of objects. We invite you to bring receipts, grocery lists, a snapshot of your car’s dashboard, or whatever composition strikes a creative spark in you. Join us in creating odd, wonderful artifacts of language.
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Tristan Beach has taught English across China from 2014 to 2017. Before that, he was a long-time editor for Portland-based literary journal Conium Review and was involved with various other literary journals and presses, including Copper Canyon Press, Coffee House Press, Pitkin Review, and Clockhouse. His poems, prose, and criticism appear in Pif Magazine, Shantih, rawboned, The Writer in the World, and Pitkin Review. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College and currently teaches English at Saint Martin’s University; he is also a facilitator for Writing on Water and the poetry editor for Pif Magazine.
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To get on a waiting list, please email us.
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