Saturday, November 12
9 a.m. to Noon: FREE Poetry Workshop
The Line of Departure: From Experience to the Page
Limited to 15 participants, this workshop with Brian Turner will focus on how poets from World War I through Iraq and Afghanistan have drawn from their wartime experiences to cross into the imaginative landscape of the page. Participants will be writing poetry during the workshop, so pen, paper or laptop is required. In addition, Turner has agreed to critique, by mail, up to three poems per person. To sign-up or for more information, please contact drblaiseallen@aol.com.
WHERE:
Old School Square, 51 North Swinton Avenue in Delray Beach
About Brian Turner:
Brian Turner is a soldier-poet whose debut book of poems, Here, Bullet, won the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award, The New York Times “Editor's Choice” selection, the 2006 Pen Center USA "Best in the West" award, and the 2007 Poets Prize, among others. Turner served seven years in the US Army, to include one year as an infantry team leader in Iraq with the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. Prior to that, he was deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1999-2000 with the 10th Mountain Division. Turner's poetry has been published in Poetry Daily, The Georgia Review, and other journals, and in the Voices in Wartime Anthology published in conjunction with the feature-length documentary film of the same name. Turner was also featured in Operation Homecoming, a unique documentary that explores the firsthand accounts of American servicemen and women through their own words.
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