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March 5, 2023(1 event)

1:00 pm: Collage and Poetry with Richard Allen May III


March 5, 2023

First Sundays at RAM: “Collage and Poetry” with Richard Allen May III

In person at Riverside Art Museum

3425 Mission Inn Blvd

Riverside, CA 92501

1:00-3:30 PM

This workshop is free and open to the public, but registration is required: https://tinyurl.com/CollageTechniquesRAM

First Sundays are free at Riverside Art Museum! Stop by the museum and tour the exhibits – then join us upstairs for making some original art of your own. Artist and educator Richard Allen May III will guide you through a series of collage techniques designed to open up your artistic flow. Participants will then craft a free verse poem inspired by their art. This is an art and poetry workshop won’t want to miss.

Richard Allen May III comes with a wealth of knowledge about the AfriCOBRA Movement, having written the forward to AfriCOBRA: Experimental Art Toward a School of Thought, published by Duke University, 2020. He is a staff writer at Artillery magazine and his work has been displayed in art galleries throughout the Inland Empire, as well as exhibits throughout the United States. May has taught courses in community colleges, universities, and prisons and will discuss his artwork in the context of community. https://richardmayart.com/

March 6, 2023
March 7, 2023(1 event)

7:00 pm: "Creating a Poetry Routine” with John Brantingham


March 7, 2023

John Brantingham Boot Camp

“Creating a Poetry Routine”

Tuesdays, March 7, 14, 21, 28, 2023

7:00-9:00 PM PT, on Zoom

$100, four weekly meetings

Register today at https://tinyurl.com/BrantinghamWrites.

This boot camp will teach you how to develop a regular writing routine that will get you to write and keep you writing. Students will learn how to develop prompts, generate ideas, and revise work on their own. There will be emphasis both on creating work now and learning how to continue working even while you are busy. Students will also be given the tools to find magazines for their poetry and publishers for their poetry collection. (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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