This energetic workshop combines theater exercises and writing prompts to encourage writers to create irresistible characters for the stage. Bring a pencil and wear loose, comfortable clothing.

Poet and performer Lenelle Moïse’s newest book is Haiti Glass. Her play Expatriate, in which she also performed, launched Off-Broadway in 2008.

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Poet, essayist, diplomat, and Nobelist Octavio Paz (1914-1998) believed that “to acknowledge the variety of visions and sensibilities is to preserve the richness of life” and ushered in a new era for Mexican literature and modern poetry. A gathering of Mexican and American poets read from his work, which spans 60 years of writing.

Click here to listen to translator Eliot Weinberger reading Paz's poem "Sunstone," recorded at Poets House.

Our earliest writers combined forms naturally: Herodotus wrote stories about what he saw or heard and called it history; Sappho wrote songs we call poetry. In this talk, Eleni Sikelianos, poet and memoirist, whose newest book is the mixed-genre You Animal Machine (The Golden Greek), discusses how she and other writers are reviving the flow of genetic material between forms to reflect our complicated minds and lives.

Please join Mayapple Press for an afternoon of thrilling readings from their recently-published books.

Readers include:
Susana H. Case
Toni Mergentime Levi
Eleanor Lerman
Judith Kerman

Booksale to follow.

About the poets:

Daniela Gioseffi (Editor/Publisher at eco-poetry.org), hosts a night of readings honoring the work of women poets.

Featured Readers include:
Alicia Ostriker
Nancy Mercado
Vivian Demuth
Peggy Ann Tartt

Open mic to follow; all are welcome to sign up at 6:45. Please bring your favorite eco-poem by a woman and one of your own to read.

Light refreshments will be served.