A Community for Writers

Presents the February Newsletter

• Upcoming Writers Studio Events
• Save The Date
• News About Campus and Town

Upcoming Writers Studio Events

Community College Poetry Day Events: March 2, March 25, and April 1

US Poet Laureate Kay Ryan has declared April 1 Community College Poetry Day. In preparation for this public event, we are offering two workshops with performance poets and Jazz musician, Dee Galloway and SETH. If you are a poet who would like to either read your work or have your work read and performed by Dee and SETH, please contact writerstudio@arapahoe.edu.and come to the following workshops in preparation for April 1.

WRITING AND PERFORMING YOUR POETRY:Tuesday March 2 at 4:00 p.m. in Room 4730 main ACC campus building.

Performance poet Dee Galloway will offer a workshop on creating and presenting your poetry in public spaces. The workshop will address:

· Selecting and Preparing Your Poem for Public Performance

· Practicing Your Poem for Public Performance

· Three Secrets of Stage Presence for Poets

This workshop is intended for ACC poets and community members who are interested in presenting their work as a part of ACC's celebration of Community College Poetry Day, but all are welcome!

Dee Galloway, aka “Sagacious Joy” is an itinerant poet who writes and performs customized original poems and rituals to commemorate special events. She conducts writing workshops through schools, churches and other adult and youth programs including the Polaris Program, Art from Ashes and YouthBiz, Inc. She has received commissions from the University of Denver, Interfaith Alliance of Colorado, The Spirituals Project, Girls Inc., YouthBiz Inc. and other organizations in the Denver area. In 2004, Dee received her Bachelor’s degree in English, with a concentration in Creative Writing from the University of Denver.

PERFORMING POETRY TO MUSIC: March 25 at 4:00 p.m. in Half Moon ACC Campus

Performance poet & jazz musician SETH will work with poets interested in reading their poetry to improvisational jazz on Community College Poetry Day (April 1). Participants will learn the fundamentals of performing poetry to music as well as creative techniques to enhance both their reading and the collaborative process.

Performance poet and fiction writer SETH has made a career of devising innovative ways to present poetry to general audiences. As a member of Open Rangers (1990-1999) SETH produced and directed a series of Poetry Theater productions combining poetry with music, theater and dance. He was a member of the critically acclaimed performance art trio Jafrika, recognized by the Rocky Mountain News as “among Denver’s finest cultural offerings.” SETH has been a member of Denver’s National Slam Team and currently performs with Art Compost & the Words Mechanics, an improvisational ensemble of musicians and poets (www.wagingart.com), appearing every Sunday night at the Mercury Café in Denver.

Save the Date!

Writers Studio Spring Literary Festival: Come to the "AWP at ACC" on Sunday, April 11, 8:30a.m.-3:30p.m.

This year, the Association of Writers And Writing Programs is holding its national conference in Denver, Colorado from April 7-April 10. The AWP brings in the best writers from around the country to participate in panel presentation, craft seminars, and readings. Writers Studio has snagged a few of those writers, along with Denver's own premiere fiction writer, Janis Hallowell, for its 5th annual literary festival. Join us for nonfiction workshops on stream-of-consciousness writing and the shaping of place, poetry workshops on shaping your poetry manuscript into a collection and the writer as shaman, and a fiction workshop on point of view as a "powerful pigment in in the writer’s palette."

For all the information, go to our Writers Studio Spring Literary Festival website. We will start taking reservations for the festival on March 1.

News About Campus and Town

Writers Studio Club

Mandi Stevens, Writers Studio Club president, is now offering an online critique group for Writers Studio Club members. If you are interested in getting constructive feedback and giving constructive feedback on your work, please register online at http://accwritersstudioclub.proboards.com/

Writers Studio Scholarship

March 16 deadline for Writers Studio Scholarship. Get your tuition and books paid for a creative writing class at ACC. New minimum requirements for applying. Email writerstudio@arapahoe.edu for information. We want you!

Literary Scene News!

Novelist William Haywood Henderson, our guest writer for the recent Writers Studio event, Upstarts of Flash Fiction, and Justice Gregory Hobbs, frequent ACC Continuing Education student!, will take part in a panel discussion on Wallace Stegner for the Rocky Mountain PBS and the Denver Film Society. Watch the film documentary on Wallace Stegner and stay for the panel discussion. Wednesday, February 24 at 7p.m. Free reception at 6p.m. at the Starz Film Center on 900 Auraria Pkwy Denver, CO 80204. For more information contact: Elizabeth Mayer at 303-620-5797 or elizabethmayer@rmpbs.org

Pikes Peak Writers 2010 Conference will be April 23-25 at the Colorado Springs Marriott. Keynote speakers include Douglas Maass. Register Now!

Publishing News (please send us your news!)

Jane Binns, eLearning Coordinator for ACC, was a recent guest lecturer for a travel writing class at Metro State and did a reading/lecture on her short-short story “Migration,” its inspiration and revision.

Lucy Graca’s presentation to the Denver Westerners has been published in the magazine, Roundup. The presentation and article, “The Coldest Case,” is about Denver’s first serial murders – of three Sportin’ Ladies on the 1800 block of Market Street in 1894.

ACC Humanities and Literature Chair, Lance Rubin contributed a chapter on Cultural Anxiety, Moral Clarity and Willful Amnesia: Filming Philip K. Dick After 9/11 to the upcoming book, Reframing 9/11 Film, Popular Culture and the “War on Terror, a "collection of analyses by an international body of scholars that examines America’s recent history."

Serendipitously, three pieces by and about ACC English professors appeared in the Colorado Poets Center E-Words Issue #9, the electronic newsletter by the Colorado Poets Center: The Ambivalent Image by Joe Hutchison, An Interview with Chris Ransick: Sleeping And Dreaming, and (Note to Self): The Lyric Essay by Kathryn Winograd.