Freshwater Poetry Festival

• Registration Form

Schedule of events:

FRIDAY, MAY 9TH, 2008
7:00 p.m.
MUSIC in Café II

7:30 p.m.
READING by Winners of 16th annual poetry contest in Café II

9:00 p.m.
COFFEE HOUSE in Café II
Music by Asnuntuck Students
followed by a Music and Poetry Open Mic

SATURDAY, MAY 10TH, 2008
9:00 a.m.
WELCOME Coffee

10:00 a.m.
WORKSHOPS:

Gregory Coleman: 13 Ways of Looking at Revision

Lynn Hoffman: Writing the World: Finding Ideas for Poems

Edwina Trentham: The Green Grass, With Its Terror Beneath: Writing About the Natural World

12:00 p.m.
LUNCH & POETRY
OPEN MIC FOR WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS

1:00 p.m.
WORKSHOPS:

Jon Andersen: The Poetry of Social Commitment

Kate Rushin: Ways of Looking

Ellen Doré Watson: Letting Words Lead

3:00 p.m.
READING by Jon Andersen, Kate Rushin, and Ellen Doré Watson

Monthly Coffee House