SUNY Brockport Writers Forum April 2, 2014 at 8 pm in the New York Room, Cooper Hall, on the Brockport campus. Writers Forum events are free and open to the public.

Michael Klein	Wednesday, April 2, 2014
	Poet and Memoirist Michael Klein is a four-time Lambda Literary Award finalist and two-time winner (for Poets for Life: Poets Respond to AIDS and his first book of poems, 1990, which shared the award with James Schuyler's Collected Poems). He is the author of two books of prose, The End of Being Known and Track Conditions, both from the University of Wisconsin Press, and a recent collection of poems, The Talking Day (Sibling Rivalry Press). He lives in New York City and Provincetown with his husband, Andrew Hood, and he teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at Goddard College in Vermont.

Prompt #9: Palimpsest Poem

Palimpsest: a manuscript on which two or more successive texts have been written, each one being erased to make room for the next (World English Dictionary).


Write a poem that has "erasures" and starts over, creating layers that allows the poem's truth to bleed through. This poem would be an altered poem with blanked words or crossed out lines.


You could take a poem that's not working and alter it, leaving the edits visible.
 

Prompt# 8 Bi-Valve Poem

Bi-Valve poem - Write a list of "companion" phrases such as "Peanut Butter and Jelly," "Love and Hate,""You and I,"  "Night and Day," Oil and Water," "Doors and Windows," and so on.  Get a decent list. Write a poem with the first stanza about the first word and the second stanza about the second word.  See what happens.  This may turn out to be an exceptional prose poem. 

FuturPointe Dance at St. John Fisher College, April 3, 2014 at 7 p.m. Cleary Auditorium

FuturPointe Dance, premier dance performance inspired by the July 1964 Riots in Rochester and  Civil Rights, and a showcase of other dances.

Thursday, April  3^rd, 2014 at  7:00 p.m.

St. John Fisher College, Cleary Family Auditorium, Kearney Bldg.

 Cost: General Public: $10.00; Students with id : $8.00
Free for St. John Fisher faculty, staff and students with id.

Contact: M.J.Iuppa, 585-385-8412

Funding for this event has been provided by the SJFC Office of Multicultural Affairs and Diversity Programs, The Visual and Performing Arts Minor Program, New York State Council for the Humanities and support from The Office of the County Historian.

Prompt# 7: Tall Tale Poem

Write a poem that describes your fantasy life achievements in a big way. Things your planning on doing, travels, awards, fashions, occupations, music, dance, art, and so on.

Example:  You love to eat ham and cheese sandwiches on  the coast of China. 

So basically this is a poem loaded with lies.  Yes, I want you to make everything up.  Except , you must 
include one simple truth about yourself in the poem.


 Let one lie lead to the next.  Wherever it seems right insert a truth.

Prompt #6: Mirror, Mirror

Meditation, Anyone?

We all know that in a mirror we observe and are observed.  Look in any reflective object (puddle, doorknob, mirror, toaster, window, and so on).

Observe self with curiosity.  Example: wonder what else your eye could be?  a telescope, a dark tunnel, a winding staircase. What about your hand, your cheek, your eyelashes, your foot?  Think about in comparison to other things.  Let this poem cascade down the page, thought to thought.  

**Allow your inner Alice or Alex to call the lines into play.

Prompt #5: Compound word flip

Take a series of compound words and flip them in a poem:
 example: birdbrain would flip to brainbird.

This is a B poem: Use as many as you like, but be careful to keep this from becoming total nonsense.  It can be done. Add any words to make the sense of the poem hold up.
 
Birdbrain, birdcall, birdcage birdseed, black-and-blue, blabbermouth, blackball, birthright, birthstone,bloodhood,
blindfold, blowup, blowtorch, bloodroot, bloodstone,
bloodline, blockbuster, bleeding-heart, boathouse, bombshell,booboo, boohoo, boondocks, boondoogle, bootjack,
bootstrap, bonehead, bonefish.