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Literary Stars Shine at Crossings Events
Fri, Mar 8th, 2013
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ZUMBROTA – Literary stars Joyce Sutphen, Minnesota’s Poet Laureate, and well-known Wisconsin author Michael Perry alight at Crossings in April, during an annual Poet-Artist Collaboration exhibit honoring National Poetry Month.
Sutphen will teach a class, “Writing from Life: Autobiographical Poems,” on Sat., April 6, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. The class fee is $75. The prose memoir is one way to shape private memory into something a reader can share—but the memoir (or the usual alternative, fiction) is not the only possibility; sometimes writers can tell as much in the condensed container of a sonnet as they could in pages of prose.
No matter where students are in life—or in the process of writing about that life—this class is designed to help them find ways to express their experience in poetry. In-class writing exercises will introduce various shapes and forms and help participants recall those places and events that shaped them.
Perry is a humorist and author of the bestselling memoirs “Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time,” “Truck: A Love Story,” and “Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs and Parenting,” and more, and writes for Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, and other national publications.
He’ll make two appearances at Crossings, first with his band, Michael Perry and the Long Beds, on Fri., April 12. He will weave stories and humor (including material from The Clodhopper Monologues) throughout a lively concert of original songs, including those on his albums, “Headwinded,” and “Tiny Pilot,” (Ambledown Records), and a couple of tunes fresh out of the pen. Tickets are $18 in advance, $20 day of show.
On Sat., April 13, he returns to present a talk, “Writing from the Middle of Nowhere.” Writers who live far from “the Coasts” often feel as if we are writing from the middle of nowhere in every sense. In this 90-minute session, Perry will discuss his book and magazine writing techniques, how to survive the freelance life and the publishing world, and most importantly, how “the middle of nowhere” can be the most powerful writing element of all. Perry will take questions during the lecture.
Perry’s talk is 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and costs $35.
To register for classes or the concert, call Crossings at 507-732-7616 or stop in to Crossings at 320 East Ave, Zumbrota. Go to www.crossingsatcarnegie.com for more information.
Sutphen will teach a class, “Writing from Life: Autobiographical Poems,” on Sat., April 6, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. The class fee is $75. The prose memoir is one way to shape private memory into something a reader can share—but the memoir (or the usual alternative, fiction) is not the only possibility; sometimes writers can tell as much in the condensed container of a sonnet as they could in pages of prose.
No matter where students are in life—or in the process of writing about that life—this class is designed to help them find ways to express their experience in poetry. In-class writing exercises will introduce various shapes and forms and help participants recall those places and events that shaped them.
Perry is a humorist and author of the bestselling memoirs “Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time,” “Truck: A Love Story,” and “Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs and Parenting,” and more, and writes for Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, and other national publications.
He’ll make two appearances at Crossings, first with his band, Michael Perry and the Long Beds, on Fri., April 12. He will weave stories and humor (including material from The Clodhopper Monologues) throughout a lively concert of original songs, including those on his albums, “Headwinded,” and “Tiny Pilot,” (Ambledown Records), and a couple of tunes fresh out of the pen. Tickets are $18 in advance, $20 day of show.
On Sat., April 13, he returns to present a talk, “Writing from the Middle of Nowhere.” Writers who live far from “the Coasts” often feel as if we are writing from the middle of nowhere in every sense. In this 90-minute session, Perry will discuss his book and magazine writing techniques, how to survive the freelance life and the publishing world, and most importantly, how “the middle of nowhere” can be the most powerful writing element of all. Perry will take questions during the lecture.
Perry’s talk is 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and costs $35.
To register for classes or the concert, call Crossings at 507-732-7616 or stop in to Crossings at 320 East Ave, Zumbrota. Go to www.crossingsatcarnegie.com for more information.
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