Category: Events

  • Warm Up With Poetry

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    Please join us for a casual, relaxed event that includes poetry readings from 3 local poets (one of them me) and also audience members. Discussion about publishing, your/our poetry “arc,” and more!

  • & Poetry Workshops

    & Poetry Workshops

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    4 Wednesdays in October @ Rapunzel’s Register for one or more of these free workshops for older teens (14+) and adults. No experience necessary. All materials provided. Register for a (free) ticket on Eventbrite. The full schedule is as follows: Oct 1: Poems of Possibility: How to Make & Decorate Cootie Catcher/Fortune Teller Poems (Amelia…

  • Poetry & Art Festival at the Botanical Garden of the Piedmont

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    September Festival The BGP Art Festival kicked off today – and the garden in Charlottesville is full of excerpts from poems by local poets, gorgeous photographs by Laurie Tennent, and many fall flowers, from the glorious yellows of wingstem, goldenrods, and sneezeweed–with its brown pincushion centers–to the purples of Joe Pye Weed, asters, and ironweed…

  • Sept. 13 Wild Ink Walk

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    Join me in Charlottesville at the Botanical Garden of the Piedmont (specializing in native plants) during their September Botanical Art Festival. This workshop is focused on close attention to the 5 senses during mindful walking and sitting to spur creativity. Optional prompts for each of the senses, and linked writing and drawing exercises will be…

  • Wild Ink Walk

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    Join me Saturday July 12th, 9-12:30 to explore the intersection of 3 practices: walking outdoors, mindfulness, and creativity. Focusing on the 5 senses, this walk will include periods of walking and close observation interspersed with brief 15 minute writing and/or drawing exercises (using provided prompts or following your own muse). Hosted by The Nature Foundation…

  • What’s the Buzz?

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    “Have you heard?” said one egg to the other. “No, I’m decorated with tic-tac-toe, not ears.” “That online book launch they keep talking about, the one on April 26th at 2 PM, is going to be something else altogether.” “Explain?!” Salon-style Format Two talented panelists will be asking the author questions, inviting her to read,…