03/15/2009 - 1:00pm to 03/15/2009 - 4:00pm

Location:
Oregon Jewish Museum
Oregon Jewish Museum
310 NW Davis Street
Portland, Oregon 97209

Class Description:
Is a Jewish poem something written by a Jewish author, or must it have a Jewish theme? Participants will explore the Jewish experience through poetry. Poems by Yehuda Amichai, Gerald Stern, Adrienne Rich, Philip Schultz, Marge Piercy, etc., will be considered. Writing exercises will be offered to motivate the creation of poems. Poems written in the workshop will be respectfully critiqued. Time permitting, we will critique a previously written poem by each participant who chooses to share one.


Willa Schneberg received the Oregon Book Award in Poetry for her second collection In The Margins Of The World. Her poems have appeared in Tikkun and Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal, American Poetry Review and Salmagundi, In 2007, she had the honor of participating in a "Poetry at Noon" event at the Library of Congress. Garrison Keillor read one of her poems on the Writer's Almanac. "Every galosh is a glass slipper waiting to samba," can be found on busses and Max trains. She has just returned from a residency at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Taos, New Mexico, and from presenting at the Montana Festival of the Book, in Missoula. Her most recent collection is Storytelling in Cambodia.

More Info:
Maximum of twelve participants. Call Friderike at OJM for details: (503) 226-3600

Cost:
Suggested contribution $75. If you have financial considerations contact the instructor, snowmntn@comcast.net All proceeds from the workshop will go to OJM.