Who is the speaker in the stories or poems you write, and where do the words come from? The sources of writing can be academic, personal, social, physical, political and often mysterious. Your material is everywhere: the letters on the scrabble board, what you ate for breakfast, your neighbour’s voice. In this series, you are invited to three sessions of writing experiments and conversations with the scribe, the speaker, and the sources of your expression.

March 6, 13, 20, 2013

Wednesdays, Noon-1:30PM

Hart House

(Ask at Hub for room location)

Register here: http://uoft.me/poet

Open to Graduate Students at the University of Toronto

Wednesday February 13, 2013

12:30-2PM

Presented by the School of Graduate Studies with Equity Offices at the University of Toronto

For more information and registration: http://www.sgs.utoronto.ca/gradroom/equityspeaker.htm

For more information and to register: http://uoft.me/poet

Whether or not you’ve ever attended a workshop, you’re welcome to come. You don’t need to be a “poet” either, you only need to want to explore through writing.

How do you navigate being involved in your life? Whether your involvement is with a partner, a family member, a community, or a passion: how do you engage while setting boundaries? Using poems as starting points, this series of writing workshops will navigate the sometimes wild ride of our daily interactions, the necessary leaps and limits.

Session 1. Showing Up

Session 2. What if you can’t say no? (or, The Underbelly of Yes)

Session 3. Fear and Leaping

January 17, 24, 31, 2013

Thursdays, Noon-1PM

Multi-Faith Centre

Please register @ http://uoft.me/poet

But it made me so mad what he had said that I went back to tell him, who apologized, but only because he knew he should, not because he felt it. And I wish I’d asked: if the Nazis’ stealing gold from the teeth of Jews was an old dental problem; or the slave trade an old question of changing property values. I wish I could have reached up and punched him in his tall, white, handsome face so far removed from retribution that reproach was only a word from his boss. When he said he didn’t mean to be dismissive, I said it was to me, and if there were more like me perhaps he could consider. He was polite. Which he could afford to be. And so was I.

Ronna Bloom

How do you navigate being involved in your life? Whether your involvement is with a partner, a family member, a community, or a passion: how do you engage while setting boundaries? Using poems as starting points, this series of writing workshops will navigate the sometimes wild ride of our daily interactions, the necessary leaps and limits.

Session 1. Showing Up

Session 2. What if you can’t say no? (or, The Underbelly of Yes)

Session 3. Fear and Leaping

January 17, 24, 31, 2013

Thursdays, Noon-1PM

Multi-Faith Centre

Please register @ http://uoft.me/poet

DESCRIPTION:

This unique workshop is invigorating and illuminating for authors and emerging writers of all genres.

As writers, we are often faced with various kinds of betweeness. Although betweenness is typically considered to be something to avoid – the devil and the deep blue sea, between a rock and a hard place – it is actually a dynamic site from which to write; from which to deepen the narrating voice.

Betweenness can be between doubt and confidence, cultures, drafts, languages, time frames, genres, between writing projects or different art forms, between conflicting shared memories, identities, what we’ve written and are afraid to write, truth and fiction,

Betsy will establish a conceptual framework, use examples, and provide a series of exercises to enable you to identify and access the greater narrative potential to be found in writing into and out of the betweenness in your writing.

By design, space is limited. To insure your participation in the workshop – register early.

Cost: $150 per participant

Registration and payment deadline: November 30^th, 2012

Location: Hart House, University of Toronto

Contact: Andrea at AMozarowski@bss.on.ca