1:30-4:30
Evanston Public Library - Room 108
Church & Orrington
sponsored by RHINO/the Poetry Forum
COME AND TRY OUT YOUR NEW WORK ON US!
Past leaders and readers and all poets welcome. Drop in, have poems critiqued, and participate in an ongoing discussion of poetry and poetics. Sessions are free* and no registration is required.
Leader: Paulette Roeske
PAULETTE ROESKE’s five books include Anvil, Clock & Last; Divine Attention, which won the Carl Sandburg Book Award for Poetry; and Bridge of Sighs, a collection of stories, winner of the Three Oaks Prize for Fiction. Recognized by a fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council, several IAC Literary Awards, and the Chester H. Jones National Poetry Competition Prize, among other honors, her work has appeared in Poetry, The Threepenny Review, The Georgia Review, Other Voices, Glimmer Train and other journals, and has been frequently anthologized. For many years she taught at the College of Lake County, where she founded both a reading series that hosted nationally recognized writers and Willow Review, an award-winning journal. Most recently, Roeske has taught at the University of Southern Indiana and at Harlaxton College in central England. For over a decade she served on the board of The Poetry Center of Chicago at the School of the Art Institute, first as vice-president and later as program committee chair. Currently, she lives with her husband in southern Indiana, where she trains and shows in dressage with her Dutch Warmblood, Title Page.
Paulette’s topic: Fin, Feather, Hoof: Writing Across Genres. Writers have long traversed the boundaries of the three genres, and the fourth genre is already old news. As the lines continue to blur, the new hybrids pose questions that challenge reader and writer alike: Fact or fiction? Who’s who? Will the real Peter Falk please stand up? This session will identify and discuss such questions from both sides of the page.
Bring 15 or more copies (no longer than two pages) of work you want critiqued.
$5 donation appreciated
This project has been partially supported by grants the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.
For more info: RHINOPOETRY.ORG
