2/27/22: Poetry Workshop at Ranger Station!

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I'm excited to announce a workshop by poet Paul Corman Roberts this weekend at the Ranger Station!

Paul is a wonderful force in Oakland's literary community. A founder of the Beast Crawl Literary Festival and a member of the California Writers Club since 2019, he loves Joaquin Miller Park and, in fact, read pieces by Miller at last fall's beautiful Blanket and a Basket of Chow event.

The author of four chapbooks and two full-length collections of prose poetry, including Bone Moon Palace from Nomadic Press, Paul is a four-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Web, and the Northern California Book Award. For his MA/MFA Graduate of the New College of California Poetics program, he studied with David Meltzer, Genny Lim, and Neeli Cherkovski. In addition to teaching at SF Creative Writing Institute, he also teaches workshops for the Older Writer’s Lab at the San Francisco Public Library. His day job as a substitute teacher for the Oakland Unified School District has helped keep kids in school during Covid. 

Can't make it to this workshop? Paul hosts a monthly generative poetry workshop called Muse@11.


2/27/22 WORKSHOP – “The Narrative Gateway: Poems That Tell Stories” with Paul Corman Roberts


Whether the narrative poem is situated in the classical omniscient third person or the lyrical “I,” it has always served as one of the most popular and accessible forms of verse that opens the windows of the world up to more readers than perhaps any other form of poetry. In this workshop we will compare and contrast modern and postmodern narrative stylings that border on flash fiction, and we will generate writing through close reading prompts and editing prompts that take “poetry” to a whole new level. Sharing of generated work will be optional.

Because COVID precautions are in place, space is limited ~ register today at City Spark! $35 Public/$20 Members

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  1. entropical paradiseJanuary 26, 2022 at 8:41 PM

    Yes, but wouldn't it be better if the whole thing rhymed?

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    1. Carol SaiaJanuary 28, 2022 at 10:05 AM

      Hi Dave! Yes it would be better if it rhymed... Show me your version. Hope to make it Sunday.
      See ya later, Carol

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