POETRY WORKSHOP AT MAC

A poetry workshop is being planned at the Manayunk Art Center to run for two Sundays. The workshop leader is Jeffrey Ethan Lee. His biographical details are below along with info about the workshop. All interested should contact Peter Krok at macpoet1@aol.com. The program will be for three hours from 1 - 4 PM on the followings Sundays April 26 and May 17. The cost is $25 per workshop and individuals can elect to choose one of the two Sundays if they cannot attend both.

Workshop fees should be made out to Peter Krok /SVJ
and mailed to:
240 Golf HIlls Road Havertown, PA 19083

BIO of Jeffrey Ethan Lee:

Jeffrey Ethan Lee's *identity papers* (2006), a finalist for the Colorado Book Award for poetry, followed *invisible sister* (2004), which was praised as "a tour de force of persona and plot" in *American Book Review.* *The Sylf* (2003) won the Sow's Ear Poetry Review Chapbook prize. He also won the first Tupelo Press Prize for literary fiction for *The Autobiography of Somebody Else.* He published hundreds of poems, stories and essays in *Many Mountains Moving, North American Review, African American Review, American Poetry Review, Xconnect, Crab Orchard Review, Crazyhorse, Crosscurrents, Green Mountain Review, Washington Square, & Other Voices.* Work is forthcoming in *Best Creative Nonfiction* and *Poetry for the Masses* etc. In 2007 he became the senior poetry editor for Many Mountains Moving: a literary journal of diverse contemporary voices, and Many Mountains Moving Press. Please visit http://mmminc.org/ and http://mmmpress.org/ for samples, reviews, interviews, audio, links, events, contest info, and much else.

Workshop series description:

Starting From Scratches? led by Jeffrey Ethan Lee, MFA, PhD

In this three-part series, you learn to trust your spontaneous voice and what it discovers. The voice that is closest to your genuine self emerges more when (1) you feel uninhibited, (2) you write about what really matters to you, and (3) you do not have a chance to censor yourself. Thus, in these workshops, you will write on the spot and share the new writings with the group immediately. The exercises will start with easier freewriting games and progress to an exercise called "Starting from Scratches." The culminating exercise is about transforming hard experience, including perhaps life-altering moments, periods of deprivation, etc. into unexpected gains in some way. These workshops have benefited poets and writers at all levels, from beginners to published authors. Open to all who come prepared to write.

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