California Desert Arts Incubator

Introduction to Poetry Workshop

INTRODUCTION TO WRITING POETRY
UCR-PALM DESERT EXTENSION
WINTER QUARTER, 2008

Monday nights, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
January 28th - March 4th
Eight (8) class meetings total

Instructor: Ruth Nolan, M.A.
Associate Professor of English, College of the Desert
poet, author, editor

Designed for all levels of aspiring poets! The class will meet in a supportive, critique-based workshop and discussion format. We'll review basic form and techniques of poetry writing, and most of all, enjoy poetry!

For more information and registration:

University of CA, Riverside Extension
phone registration: (800) 442-4990
Online registration-- keyword: "poetry"
Introduction to Writing Poetry: code #073AHCC07

you may also contact Ruth Nolan at runolan@aol.com (760) 964-9767

Trapdoor Poetry to Feature Randolph Maxted

Trap Door Poetry
is pleased to present
Randolph Maxted
Sunday, January 13
6 - Open Mic
6:30 - Guest Reader
 
Born and raised in Canada, Randolph has lived in California almost half his life.  He is a dual citizen and lives in Palm Springs.  He studied theatre and English literature at Montreal’s McGill University, and has been writing poetry for 30 years.  He was involved in the literary scenes in Vancouver and Santa Barbara before moving here.  In Vancouver, he wrote and directed several plays, and both there and since coming to the States has had pieces published in several literary magazines.  In Santa Barbara, he did readings of his work on community cable television, in addition to being involved in numerous solo and group readings.  Since arriving in Palm Springs, Randolph has been involved with the Desert Pride Community Center, where he twice co-produced the art auction benefit, “Tasty Plateful”.  He has published four chapbooks, and plans to release another collection of poetry in 2008, as well as a memoir.  Randolph publishes and co-edits(with Lee Balan) “The Intriguist”, a grassroots literary journal, which will put out its fifth issue shortly.  He says, “I think it is of utmost importance that we writers and artists support each other, partly because there is a much larger segment of the general population than us that will not support us.  Our common goal is to share and foster thought and creativity, and always to make it fun and empowering to do so. ”
 
 
Palm Springs Wine & Art - 242 N. Palm Canyon Drive, PS - 325-9991
 
 
“A poet’s work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop its going to sleep.” Salman Rushdie

San Francisco Poet Evelyn Posamentier Coming to the Art Museum

On Thursday December 20, 2007 noted San Francisco poet Evelyn Posamentier will read at the Palm Springs Art Museum as part of the Live Out Loud! Poetry Series. The reading will take place in ZONE 101 at 6 p.m. and is free to the public.

Evelyn Posamentier’s poems have appeared in The Diagram, Born Magazine, 3 am Magazine, The SoMa Literary Review, The Quarterly Journal of Ideology, Nthposition and Drunken Boat.

The Live Out Loud! Poetry Series continues this year with Featured Poets on Thursday’s Free community Evenings. The readings take place in ZONE 101 from 6-8 pm on the third Thursday of each month. This year the evenings will be split among Featured Poets for the first hour and an open mic session welcoming audience participating for the second hour.

Funding for the series is generously provided from Poets & Writers Magazine through a grant from the James Irvine Foundation.

Poetry at Barnes and Nobles December 7th

A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS IN WALES
DEC. 7 AT BARNES & NOBLE IN WESTFIELD SHOPPING TOWN
“Valley Voices of the Muse” will read the Dylan Thomas story on Friday, December 7 at 6 P.M. at the Barnes & Noble Book Store in the Westfield Shopping Center in Palm Desert. This will be a group reading by several local poets and artists. Dylan Thomas is the world renowned poet who died in 1963. “Valley Voices of the Muse” is a monthly poetry series hosted by Sacramento Poet, Patricia D’Alessandro. These events are free and everyone is welcome. Start the holiday season in a festive mode!