Event Listing - Literary Arts
Sun Nov 1

Coming Up at the Writing Salon

Poetry & Surprise


Tel. 415.609.2468
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$55 - $65

Location
Date and Time
The San Francisco Writing Salon
720 York St.
San Francisco, CA 94110 map
cross street: between 19th and 20th streets
district: Mission

Sun Nov 1 (Sunday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.) - Class size limited. Pre-register online!

Description
“When U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan decided to take up poetry,” says instructor Julie Bruck, “she began by picking tarot cards at random, writing a poem to each until she’d exhausted the deck. This, she said, was a way for her to discover her themes. By her own account, her process hasn’t changed much, but there’s a thrill that goes into unwrapping her short, highly-compressed poems that is a direct transmission of the play that goes into their making.

“We’ll spend the morning exploring fresh approaches to finding our own material. No tarot decks here, but we will use other in-class exercises that can surprise us into meaning, and we’ll also read poems that embody that kind of surprise.”

This half-day, hands-on workshop is suitable for a wide spectrum of people, from beginners who want a little direction, to more experienced writers who’d like to shake up—or dust off— their established writing habits.