World Poetry Workshops!

World Poetry Workshop Series is held at the Alliance for Arts and Culture, Suite 100-938 Howe St. Vancouver, starting at the end of this coming September. Workshops dates: Saturday, September 27, 3-4:30 pm. October 25, 3-4:30 pm, November, 22, 3-4:30 pm

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World Poetry Workshop Registration Form.

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Please check the following workshops that you wish to attend:

1) Poetic Imagery. Saturday, September 27 3-4:30 pm Cost: $25.00 per person, $20.00 for World Poetry card members.

2) Music to the Ears. Saturday October 25, 3-4:30 pm.: $25.00 per person, $20.00 for World Poetry card members.

3) Manuscript preparation. Saturday November, 22, 3-4:30 pm. $25.00 per person, $20.00 for World Poetry card members.

**If you are a World Poetry Member, please put your card number down here.

$5.00 off for three workshops! Regular: $70.00. World Poetry members: $ 55.00.

Total payment enclosed.

Please send registration form and payment to: Ariadne Sawyer, World Poetry Workshops at: 702-31 Elliot St. New Westminster, BC. V3L 5C9. You will receive a receipt at the workshop.

Thank you from The World Poetry Workshop team, Diego Bastianutti, Bernice Lever, Addena Sumter-Freitag, Ariadne Sawyer, and Alejandro Mujica-Olea

World Poetry Workshop Series is held at the Alliance for Arts and Culture, Suite 100-938 Howe St. Vancouver, starting at the end of this coming September. Workshops dates: Saturday, September 27, 3-4:30 pm. October 25, 3-4:30 pm, November, 22, 3-4:30 pm

1) Poetic Imagery: the poet's painting; learn to use all your five senses. An image is worth a thousand words. Learn to move your reader from words to images and images to words. Learn to create more than one level of meanings through verbal ambiguities, word position, and invented words (neologisms). Most words have centuries of multiple meanings, uses, and connections that flavour their meanings: learn to make use of them. Saturday, September 27, 3-4:30 pm. Facilitators: Bernice Lever and Diego Bastianutti. Minimum participants for workshops: 4, maximum 12.

2) Music to the Ears: poetry was and still is a musical art, in essence a song. Learn how to create sound patterns that join your words, how to change rhythms, cadence, how to create assonance and consonance, internal rhyme. Hear your verses read aloud to spot what to correct and what to emphasize. A look at the different types of repetition and its value. Saturday October 25, 3-4:30pm Facilitator: Professor Diego Bastianutti. Minimum participants for workshops: 6, maximum 12.

3) Manuscript preparation, print, CD, Internet and other marketing ideas. Submissions for publication cover letters or e-mails. From rough draft to final editing, this is a summary of some of the above topics! Saturday November, 22, 3-4:30 pm. Facilitators: Bernice Lever and Diego Bastianutti. Minimum participants for workshops: 6, maximum 12.

Facilitators: Bernice Lever, World Poetry Lifetime Achievement Award Winner, 2008, prize winning poet, teacher and editor, has 8 poetry books and a few in prose. Black Moss, Ontario, published, "Never a Straight Line", 2007 and plans "Gene Ration", 2009. From Bowen Island, she is active in writer's organizations. Bernice enjoys helping others get their words into print.

Diego Bastianutti was born in Fiume, Italy. He was a professor of Italian and Spanish Literatures at Queen’s University, plus the post of Hon. Vice Consul of Italy. In addition to numerous academic publications, his English translation of the 7-volume poetry opus of the Giuseppe Ungaretti was awarded the 1998 John Glassco National Prize. Bastianutti has published three volumes of his own poetry, the last one in Italian with his own English translation. This last collection, For a Fistful of Soil, was recently awarded the prestigious International Literary Prize Scritture di Frontiera, dedicated to Umberto Saba, which Bastianutti received in Trieste, Italy, this past May 24, 2008. He has received other prizes both here and in Europe for his poetry and short stories, and is currently completing his fourth volume of poetry. He regularly advises and edits poetry on a private basis. He is a member of the League of Canadian Poets, the Federation of BC Writers, and the Association of Italian Canadian Writers and World Poetry.