b'32 SPECIAL STUDIES 2022 REGISTER NOW AT learn.chq.orgLITERATURE & WRITING 33 Chautauqua Writers Center SIGHT AND INSIGHTCharlotte MatthewsFlannery OConnor established that Sony Ton-Aime, Michael I. Rudell Director of Literary Arts learning to write is learning to see. Following her counsel, workshop For 34 years, the Chautauqua Writers Center has been a lively community of writers at allparticipants will practice ways to see and re-levels of development who cultivate the craft and vision necessary to grow as artists undersee both external and internal landscapes. the tutelage of highly accomplished authors. These writers-in-residence also give free read- Each day will adopt a distinct focus: trees, ings and lectures each week. Learn more at writers.chq.org roots, water, stone and air. Writers to The following pages present workshops in three formats, to help writers find the best matchbe considered in this workshop include for their needs: Elizabeth Bishop, Wendell Berry, Ross Gay, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Ron Rash and 1.Generative. The primary class focus is on in-class craft analysis and discussion, in-classNatasha Trethewey. Generative. Ages 18+.exercises, and optional take-home prompts; ideal for writers looking for new ways toWeek 3, 7/117/15 / M, Tu, W, Th, Finvigorate their writing practice throughout the entire year; useful to writers at all levels. 8:3010:30 a.m. / Alumni Hall Poetry Room2.Flexible. These workshops are structured to both workshop the writing of those withFees: 5 sessions$135drafts relevant to the workshop focus and produce useful craft analysis and discussion with optional take-home prompts for those looking to generate new work during thePOETRY AS AUTOBIOGRAPHYweek. Sue Ellen Thompson3.Advanced. The primary focus is on careful reading and response for everyones submit- The subjects for poetry that attract so many ted manuscripts, in the context of craft analysis and discussion and sometimes alterna- of uschildhood, loss, love and family tive revision strategies; ideal for dedicated writers hoping to elevate their manuscriptsrelationshipsoften come from the events to the next level; application required. of our own lives. But how much should we To learn more about other Chautauqua Literary Arts programs, visit literaryarts.chq.org.reveal, and what should we hold back? In Books by Writers Center writers-in-residenceand by authors in all our programsarethis workshop, we will look at some of the available at the Chautauqua Bookstore, the CLSC Octagon and the Smith Memorial Library. confessional poems that were being written in the 50s and 60s before turning to contemporary American poets who write Writers CenterWRITING ABOUT THE NATURAL WORLD about their own experience in a way that Neil Shepardtranscends the confessional impulse. Then Poetry Workshops In this poetry workshop, well discusswe will use their work as models for writing contemporary nature poems from aour own autobiographical poems. Flexible. variety of literary magazines (includingAges 18+.WRITING WITH OTHERS my own online magazine Plant-HumanWeek 4, 7/187/22 / M, Tu, W, Th, FMaggie Anderson Quarterly), but our own poems will serve8:3010:30 a.m. / Alumni Hall Poetry RoomWe know that poems come from theas the inspiriting core of discussion for thisFees: 5 sessions$135imaginations, languages, and experiencesworkshop. Well look at poems in all their of the poet. A poem is the cry of itscomplexity, from imagery and metaphor, occasion, Wallace Stevens wrote, andto sonics and diction, to tone and rhetoric,WRITING ABOUT THE DIFFICULT AND poets seem most often to locate theirand well pay special attention to howFINDING GRACE IN POETRYoccasions in the raw material of their ownthese various poetic effects reinforce theNicole Cooleylives. In this workshop, we will experimentcontent of a nature poem. The workshopPoet Lucille Clifton said she hoped her with writing poems that require us toatmosphere will be convivial but seriouspoems would comfort the afflicted and reach outside the circumference of ourin purpose, and participants poems willafflict the comfortable. In this workshop, own immediate lives and selves into newbe treated with respect. Throughout thewe will investigate how to write such forms and strange occasions. One wayweek, well consider writing exercises thatpoems. We will explore how to tackle that poets are currently doing this is bymight steer you toward new strategies anddifficult subjects in our workfrom loss using the written and visual texts of otherdiscoveries in making a poem. Generative.and grief to politics and war. How do we poets, historians, scientists, painters andAges 18+. find our way into the most crucial and hard photographers. Well begin by looking atWeek 2, 7/47/8 / M, Tu, W, Th, F subjects of our lives and shape them into some examples of these poems. From there8:3010:30 a.m. / Alumni Hall Poetry Room poems? We will write new poems, read well use our own experiences to engageFees: 5 sessions$135 and talk about poetry and poetics, and in collaborations with others in order toworkshop poems. Flexible. Ages 18+.discover what further we can say beyondWeek 5, 7/257/29 / M, Tu, W, Th, Fthe boundaries of what we knowor think8:3010:30 a.m. / Alumni Hall Poetry Roomwe do. Flexible. Ages 18+. Fees: 5 sessions$135Week 1, 6/277/1 / M, Tu, W, Th, F8:3010:30 a.m. / Alumni Hall Poetry RoomFees: 5 sessions$135= Visit learn.chq.org for required materials = Youth under 18 may attend = Materials fee applies'