Join us for a fantastic poetry & teaching symposium
Write, Sing, and Move the Future
Poetry Writing & Teaching Symposium
with California Poets In the Schools,
August 23-25, 2013
at La Casa de Maria
in Santa Barbara, California
Deadline to register is coming up SOOOON!
Registration info here: http://www.cpits.org/events.htm
Laure-Anne Bosselaar grew up in Belgium and earned her MFA from Warren Wilson.
She taught poetry workshops for the WITS program in Colorado, and co-directed
the Aspen Writers' Conference from 1989-1992. Laure-Anne has been awarded a
Breadloaf fellowship and a Pushcart prize. Her collections include The Hour
Between Dog and Wolf (BOA Editions) and Small
Gods of Grief (BOA) which won the Isabella
Gardner Prize for Poetry. Her collection A New Hunger (Ausable/Copper Canyon) was an ALA Notable Book.
www.laureannebosselaar.com.
Juan Felipe
Herrera is California’s Poet Laureate.
Juan Felipe grew up as the son of migrant workers and attended UCLA, Stanford
and the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. He has written books in many genres including books
for children and Lotería Cards and Fortune Poems: A Book of Lives (City Lights).
Juan Felipe’s awards include an American
Book Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the National Book Critics Circle award
for his poetry collection Half the World in Light (University of Arizona Press). Once a poet-teacher with
CPITS, Juan Felipe is currently Professor of Creative Writing at UC Riverside.
Workshops
Seretta Martin // Poetry with
an Edge
What’s missing in much of the
American poetry written today? Does it win the hearts and minds of young poets
or has it become too ascetic and cerebral? Joining the revolution that Tony
Hoagland calls the “edge of sustained, concerted thought – jubilant,
freewheeling, associative, collage poetry” we’ll encounter and write poems with
EDGE. Seretta Martin is the author of Foreign
Dust Famliar Rain, hosts a reading series,
and is assistant director of the Border Voices Project in San Diego County
where she is a poet in the schools.
Prartho Sereno // Song Writing for the Absolute
Beginner
With our love of word, image, and
rhythm, we poets are lyricists by nature. In this playshop we’ll add tonal
variation to give our poems melodic wings. Various exercises will help us integrate
word/meaning/sound. No musical experience necessary. Recipient of a Radio
Disney Super Teacher Award, Prartho’s publications include Call from Paris and the song-CD Don’t Ask Why.
Alice Pero // Finding One’s
Vision with Rhythm and the Created Space
Learn universal, freeing exercises
that find the sweet creative spot. Students enter poetry through magic portals
that lead to the inner world. Use of rhythm and "now" space. Los
Angeles dancer, musician and poet-teacher Alice Pero will share holistic music and dance techniques that used
successfully for over 20 years.
Tree Bernstein // Luminous Lunchbox Lunes
Sometimes called “American Haiku,”
these bite-sized poems are a tasty option for poets who like variety in their diet. We’ll follow
poet Jack Collom’s variation on the lune with three short-lines, counting
words, not syllables. Brevity begets wit as poets fine-tune focus, rendering
luminous lunes, small enough to fit in a lunchbox. Tree Bernstein teaches
Creative Writing at the Brooks Institute and is Ventura County CPITS Area
Coordinator. Her poetic advice column appears regularly online and in the Ojai
Quarterly.
Daryl Chinn // Demystifying the
CPITS Program
This workshop will provide new
poets teachers with information and tools needed to become a field poet. It
will include training, selling the program, filling out paperwork, information
on Poetry Out Loud and an overview of the organization. Each poet will receive
a variety of sample lessons plans for different grade levels. Daryl Ngee Chinn
writes and makes books about tango, food, relations, love, and death. Daryl Chinn is a former
California Poets in the Schools Board President and ambassador for the program.
Fernando D. Castro // Tasty
Kitchen Table Poems: Multicultural Recipes, Healing, Magic Potions, and
Feastings
Families treasure original recipes
that have been passed from generation to generation. Such recipes offer great
opportunities to write about culture, memory and cherished family
relationships. There is also an inherent connection to the preparation of
healing and magic potion and spells. Poetic language lends itself to
incantation and magical rituals. Please bring a family recipe and cooking
spices. Fernando Castro is the winner of a City of Los Angeles Department of
Cultural Affairs COLA 2010 fellowship in Literature.
Dan Zev Levinson // Babble—The
Sound of Language
We often write poetry to take language
to a new place and to say something in a new way. We will experiment, push
boundaries of babble mixed with meaning, and look to masters’ and students’
samples before writing our own. Then we’ll segue into the unexpectedness of
anti-poetry. Area Coordinator for Humboldt, Trinity, and Del Norte counties, Dan
Zev Levinson joined CPITS in 1998. He
teaches up to 1,000 students yearly, including those in court-ordered and
alternative schools.
Claire Blotter // Where Poetry
Meets Movement and Dances!
We'll explore how movement sparks
poetry and how the rhythm of words inspires movement. Learn fun movement-chants
for figurative language; write talk-yell poems; and discover how non-literal
movement in 4 line poems can jazz up poetry writing for all ages. Marin performance
poet Claire Blotter has been moving
with poetry, keeping the beat with body rhythms, and chanting with children and
adults for more than 30 years. She’s toured from San Diego to Portland
performing poems from her third chapbook, Moment in the Moment House.
Michael McLaughlin
// Your Move: Dance into
Poetry/Poetry into Dance
Michael McLaughlin recently collaborated with the Spector
Dance Company of Monterey and Rancho Cielo in Salinas to offer 8 poetry and
movement workshops. One goal of the project was to reach young adults at-risk
or on probation. Come turn your poetry into movement and join in this poetic
sweep of dance. Currently shopping around his second novel, victim of
enthusiasms,
Michael McLaughlin was Poet Laureate of San Luis Obispo in 2003.
Blake More // Mayan Stelae Poetry Collage
This collage/poetry
workshop uses Mayan Stelae as a defining
foundation for the art-word expression of the cultural landscape of each
participating poet. Students are provided with a background on the image/ word/concepts
used in traditional Mayan stelae. Then each uses traditional Mayan themes to
express a unique cultural identity, using a stelae-shaped template, collage,
and image-based poetry.
Mendocino County Area Coordinator and poet teacher Blake
More has many creative voices and
expressions, including poetry, performance, radio, costume design and painting.
Shelley Savren // The Four Elements: Meditation, Writing
& Healing
We’ll begin with ‘heart rhythm meditation” using the four
elements: air, fire, water, earth. We’ll then do a guided meditation calling up
painful events and discovering places inside ourselves where we can transform
them into healing experiences. We’ll read poems on the elements and write poems
originating from our journey. Shelley Savren, author of The Common Fire and The Wild Shine of
Oranges, has been a CPITS poet since 1975.
Johnnierenee Nia Nelson // 51 Shades of Grief: Exploring Empty Spaces
After reading and discussing the works of selected poets,
participants will then write their own poem and share what they have written if
they so choose. Subject matter is not limited to the death of a loved one, but
can include, loss of health, friendship, a cherished dream; job loss; a
relationship breakup, death of a pet, or loss of safety after a trauma. Johnnierenee
Nia Nelson is a widely-published
performance poet who has written six books of poetry and has taught workshops
from Cairo, Egypt to Vancouver, Canada. She is the CPITS area coordinator for
San Diego County.
Learn ways to fund teaching gigs, your own creative projects, or professional development. Where to start. Where to dig. How to deliver a perfect proposal. Build relationships with foundations and allied arts/community groups. Share your ideas and leave with templates and treasure maps for future quests. Karen Lewis has created winning grants for many programs including Poets & Writers, Arts Council of Mendocino County, and CAC/AIS.
Our Mission
Founded in 1964, California Poets in the Schools is one of the largest literary artists-in-residence programs in the nation. We encourage students throughout California to recognize and celebrate their creativity, intuition, and intellectual curiosity through the creative poetry writing process. We provide students with a multicultural community of published poets, specially trained to bring their experience and love for their craft into the classroom. CPITS serves 25,000 students annually in hundreds of public and private schools, juvenile halls, after-school programs, hospitals, and other community settings. www.cpits.org
Casa de Maria
Casa de Maria is an historic Santa Barbara retreat center located in the alluring Santa Ynez Mountains. Set in a secret garden, guarded by woodlands and the tumbling waters of the San Ysidro Creek, there are tranquil settings for relaxation, rejuvenation, creative pursuits, and inspiration. A swimming pool, hiking trails and healthful meals add to the ambience. Recently renovated rooms with private baths are set in park-like grounds beneath oaks and star-filled night skies. This sanctuary exists just minutes from Santa Barbara’s beaches, train station, airport, and other attractions.
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