The week's events
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- Thirty Days Until Done for National Poetry Month
Thirty Days Until Done for National Poetry Month
Thirty Days Until Done for National Poetry Month
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April 4, 2023Tuesdays, 4/4, 4/11, 4/18, 4/25/23
7:00-9:00 PM PT, on Zoom
$100, four weekly meetings
To enroll: https://tinyurl.com/BrantinghamWrites
Thirty Days Until Done for National Poetry Month
Calling all poets! This is one boot camp you won’t want to miss. Following the method created in John Brantingham’s website, students will write a poem a day for the month of April. At the end of that month, they will have thirty individual poems that together will form a unified chapbook collection. The classes will generate new work, workshop existing poems, and develop new techniques and skills. (Meets weekly.)
John Brantingham was Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks’ first poet laureate. His work has been featured in hundreds of magazines, Writers Almanac and The Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2022. He has nineteen books of poetry and fiction including Life: Orange to Pear (Bamboo Dart Press). He is the founder and general editor of The Journal of Radical Wonder. He lives in Jamestown, NY.
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- “Arranging Your Poetry Manuscript” with Cati Porter and guests
“Arranging Your Poetry Manuscript” with Cati Porter and guests
“Arranging Your Poetry Manuscript” with Cati Porter and guests
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April 6, 2023Thursday, April 6, 2023
Inlandia Institute and Riverside Public Library Present
First Thursdays Arts Walk
“Arranging Your Poetry Manuscript”
with Cati Porter and guests
Free and open to the public. No registration required.
Riverside Main Library
3900 Mission Inn Blvd
Riverside, CA 92501
Doors Open at 6:00 PM
6:30-8:00 PM
For National Poetry Month, learn some new techniques for arranging a poetry manuscript. Join Cati Porter and special guests who talk about their own adventures in arranging a poetry manuscript and give you some strategies for arranging your own.
If a poem is the best words in their best order, then a poetry manuscript is the best poems in their best order. But with so many possible variations, how do you decide what is “best”? Cati Porter is the author of eleven poetry books and chapbooks and has extensive experience in what not to do, and some tried-and-true strategies and tips.
Attendees of this program who submit a manuscript to the Hillary Gravendyk Prize open poetry book competition will have their contest entrance fee comped.
Open mic poetry readings start at 6:30. Program begins at 7:00.
Cati Porter has been writing and publishing for three decades. She has a Masters in Fine Arts — Poetry from Antioch University, Los Angeles, and is the author of eleven collections of poetry, including The Body at a Loss (CavanKerry Press, 2019), Novel (Bamboo Dart Press, 2022), and the forthcoming small mammals (Mayapple Press, 2023). She is founder and editor of Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry and executive director of Inlandia Institute.
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- Comic Book Storytelling for Teens with NARCOMEY
Comic Book Storytelling for Teens with NARCOMEY
Comic Book Storytelling for Teens with NARCOMEY
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April 7, 2023Inlandia Institute is excited to announce a new comic book workshop for teens! Join cartoonist and illustrator NARCOMEY for a class that will inspire your creativity and clarify your focus. Sessions will be held on Zoom over six consecutive Fridays – March 31, April 7, April 14, April 21, April 28, and May 5, 2023 – from 3:30-5:00 PM PT.
During this 6-week workshop, NARCOMEY will walk you through the basics of comic book storytelling. This will be accomplished by working on a simple, 4-page comic book story. Focusing on one page per week – along with a Q&A – NARCOMEY wants participants to leave with four complete pages of comic book layouts/roughs. This workshop is about storytelling, not pretty pictures, so don’t worry if you can’t draw a stick figure. The basics are what every craftsperson falls back on, and NARCOMEY hopes this basic storytelling workshop will give you a strong foundation to build your craft on.
The workshop is free and open to teens ages 13-18, but registration is required. To register, please visit: https://tinyurl.com/ComicBookTeens.