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Program - VABook! 2005
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“Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos”
Leaves of Grass at 150
America’s first masterwork of poetry displayed for the first time in
all of its variant forms. Now, 150 years after the original publication of Leaves
of Grass, the University of Virginia Library, in conjunction with a special
issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review, proudly presents the first exhibition
of all the variant forms of the 1855 edition, along with a celebration of Walt
Whitman’s subsequent work. The display features several early editions of
Leaves of Grass, original manuscripts, and photographs of Whitman.
March 16 - April
Harrison Institute and Small Special Collections Library,
1st floor
UVa Central Grounds
Festival of the Altered Book: Artist Terri Long
Gallery exhibition exploring the book—recycled, altered, revalued, and
renewed in shape and context—as art.
March 1-31, Business hours (Wednesday-Sunday)
Nature Visionary Art Gallery
110 Fourth Street NE
naturevisionaryart.com
Books, Libraries, Landscapes and Dogs: Oil Paintings by Lynn Jamgochian
The artist will be at the Gravity Lounge through out the book festival.
March 4-31, Business hours
The Gravity Lounge
103 South 1st Street
Booksigning with Debbie and Carlos Rosas: Authors of The NIA Technique
Free booksigning to follow a paid master class. Master class 5:30 p.m. and
booksigning at 7 p.m. Call 434-296-6250 to register and for details.
March 15
Fry Spring Beach Club
2512 Jefferson Park Avenue
Workshops
This year the festival will feature paid workshops on the craft of writing from the Charlottesville Writing Center and Tupelo Press on Sunday of the festival. See details below.
Sunday, March 20
The Challenge of the Second Novel
A Charlottesville Writing Center Program
Katharine Weber, author and writing instructor (Yale University and Paris Writing
Workshop), $75
Enrollment: 10-15
Time: 10 a.m.- 1 p.m.
Venue: Village School, 215 E. High Street
A first published novel is usually the fruit of years of effort, much revision
and more often than not a certain amount of autobiographical sensibility, if not
actual elements drawn from life. It is the novel that made you a writer, the novel
that upon publication meant that the world now knew you were a novelist.
The second novel is a notorious challenge for many writers. On a practical level,
there is a kind of pressure to complete it and see it out into the world on a
schedule far more compressed than ever before. Sophomore efforts are often disappointing
to critics, to readers, to publishers. They are often marred by this haste and
pressure, seeming less complete and less substantial. In this workshop, open only
to those who have published a first novel (or have one accepted for publication)
we will consider all the pitfalls of writing a second novel, and we will work
on strategies for avoiding them. Some of the issues we will address: How to troubleshoot,
where you may be going wrong, finding voice, determining structure problems, narrative
strategy issues versus plot issues, pacing, reading your own work critically,
how a second novel comes from a different place. Call 434-293-3702 for more info
and registration.
Publishing: Real World Strategies for Success
A Tupelo Press Publishing Program
Jeffrey Levine and Kate Gale, $75
Enrollment limited
Time 10 a.m. - Noon ... 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. (Lunch arrangements to be provided at
cost)
Venue: Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 145 Ednam Drive
The publishing world demystified, plus specific, individualized strategies for
prose and poetry writers at every stage of their writing careers. Commentary on
specific routes to success, including the effectiveness of workshops, mentoring
programs, M.F.A programs, and private tutoring. Inside look at the various markets
for written work, and frank and detailed discussions about how to design a effective
publishing program that meets the needs of the novice, the moderately successful,
and the veteran writer. We’ll explore how one determines which literary
on-line journals and which printed literary journals are right for you, plus the
low-down on self-publishing. Since each person’s story and needs are unique,
we’ll answer your specific questions. Participants to prepare their top
three questions in advance for a brief one-on-one consultation with one of the
publishers.
Call 434-924-8922, or email writing@tupelopressva.org.
Tupelo Press supporters who are Readers will receive a (15%) discount on the cost
of any workshop. See: www.tupelopress.org
Re-imagining the Lost World of Childhood
A Tupelo Press Poetry Workshop
Ilya Kaminsky and Sharon Leiter, $75
Maximum enrollment: 15
Time 10 a.m. - Noon ... 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. (Lunch arrangements to be provided at
cost)
Venue: Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 145 Ednam Drive
“Even if you were in a prison whose walls would shut out from your senses, the sounds of the outer world, would you not then still have your childhood, this precious wealth, this treasure house of memories? Direct your attention to that. Attempt to resurrect these sunken sensations of a distant past.”
--Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
This workshop will center on the resurrection of the lost world of childhood
in poetry. Participants will be encouraged to write about the deep past, using
some half-remembered sensation or detail to "hook" the magical fish of childhood
that continues to live in each of us. Participants will receive a packet of "great
poems" prior to the workshop and submit four of their own poems, and a poem by
a poet they admire. Detailed comments will be offered in group discussions and
individual conferences with at least one of the instructors. Students to submit
poems in advance of the workshop.
Call 434-924-8922, or email writing@tupelopressva.org.
Tupelo Press supporters who are Readers will receive a (15%) discount on the cost
of any workshop.
See: www.tupelopress.org
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