These online workshops are conducted live, over Zoom. I am also available for in-person workshops in classrooms or other sites as circumstances allow. TO REGISTER, PLEASE EMAIL ME: montereybound AT gmail DOT com.
Pop-up Poetry Workshop! FREE for paid Substack subscribers!
Tell Me Another Story: how and why to invert, interrupt, and otherwise interfere with your narrative
Sunday, 25 August
11:00am Pacific / 2:00pm Eastern / 7pm Ireland/UK
You have a story to tell. You’ve been meaning to write it down. You have written it down, but you could tell it half a dozen ways. You’ve told the story but you aren’t emotionally finished with it yet. There’s a story you need to tell but can’t look at head on.
Bring your story and I’ll bring prompts to shape it and shape it again.
In this workshop, appropriate for those looking for a generative or revision approach, we will investigate some of the myriad ways to relate the emotional experience of an event or situation that go beyond straight beginning to end storytelling. Springing from a healthy sample of poems by folks like Patricia Smith, Paul Tran, and other poetry stars, we will reverse engineer what poets are doing to say the hard things effectively. In between reading poems, we’ll employ prompts and mini-writes, exploring the use of persona, epigraph, braiding, and other techniques in our own work.
This is an all genders workshop!
Cost: $30 or free for paid Ask the Poet subscribers
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NEXT THREE-WEEK SESSION Fridays, September 13, 20, & 27, 2024.
EIGHT-WEEK SESSION: Thursdays, October 3 – November 21, 2024.
Other times available by popular demand. See below for fees and payment methods. Partial scholarships available.
Intimate groups: No more than eight participants.
Personalized follow-up material: Based on what comes out of each session.
Contemporary voices: With a focus on marginalized voices.
Live writing time: Not just quick-writes, also longer explorations (30-45 min).
Affordability: Sliding scale rates and discounts for return participants.
Workshops can be tailored to the needs of the participants.
That being said, the general format I follow begins with a short warm-up exercise to play with language and get our minds on topic. After the warm-up, we read 1-2 poems/poets, exploring them for craft as well as our own emotional responses. We move from the poems into writing prompts and writing time. Then, the group re-convenes to share writing or process as each individual wishes; there is no obligation to do so. Unless the writer is interested in particular feedback or requests no feedback, those with something to offer about what was shared speak briefly on something they appreciated about what they heard. As we all understand the writing is fresh and unfinished, the focus is not on critique but rather on craft and techniques of using the writing of others toward generating our own.
The core SOBI (Small Observances, Big Ideas) workshops are ongoing and run in 8-week blocks that take place weekly in two-hour sessions. Groups range from 4-8 people. Sliding scale $225-290 payable via Venmo (@kathrynpetruccelli) or Paypal (montereyboundATgmailDOTcom). There is also an option to add in a one-hour private session ($30 when attached to a series.). Return participants receive a 10% discount. Partial Scholarships available for Poets of Color. [3-week Sept. workshop $75-105.]
Write me at montereybound AT gmail DOT com to reserve your spot. If you are interested in alternative meeting times, please contact me–with four people interested we can make it happen.
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