PARTICIPANT PROFILE: Making Poems That Last

Making Poems That Last - Poetry Workshop With Leonard Gontarek
www.leafscape.org/LeonardGontarek  

WHO
Leonard Gontarek
gontarek9@earthlink.net

WHERE
Osage workshop: 4221 Osage Avenue (West Philly)
Moonstone workshop: 108 S. 13th Street, 2nd floor
Kelly Writers House Workshop: 3805 Locust Walk, Univ of Penn campus

WHEN
The Osage workshop is ongoing on Saturdays, 11-1PM.
The Moonstone workshop is ongoing on Thursdays, 5:30-7PM,
The Kelly Writers House Workshop, in the Fall of 2011

WHAT
The workshop includes discussions of contemporary and international poetry, translation, the students’ poetry, and the realities of publishing poetry. Specific direction and assignments are given, with attention to the basic elements and forms of poetry. Through invention the poets build more accurate and textured work. The workshop is designed for poets at all levels of accomplishment.

Workshop leader Leonard Gontarek will describe the workshop, followed by a brief reading by Catherine Bancroft.