Invitation to Poetry Retreat in the Woods!

POETRY RETREAT IN THE WOODS:
Feb 23-24, 2008
Heathcote Community Conference Center
21300 Heathcote Road Freeland, MD 21053

Feb 23 10 am to 6 pm
Feb 24 10 am to 6 pm

This weekend workshop will explore economy in poetry, and the art of “show, don’t tell,” giving the our reader or audience our thoughts through imagry.

Join us in Heathcote Community’s historic mill for a weekend of reading, writing, playing and performing. Bring your old favorites and works in progress for our critique sessions.

42 in Poetry: How to craft your “answers to life, the universe and everything” in a poem

Whille this retreat isn’t a study of Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, it happens that I’m turning 42 the day before the workshop. And since “42” is Adams’ answer to the “ultimate  question of life, the universe and everything,” I must be a vessel of great poetic knowledge. If not, at least there will be birthday cake!

Communal lodging for participants will be provided in the workshop space. Meals are vegan/vegetarian, and organic, provided in Heathcote Community’s kitchen and dining room.



Email Wren Tuatha through zaadz for fees and details!

About the Facilitator:

Wren Tuatha’s poems have appeared in The Baltimore Review, Digges’ Choice, The Baltimore Women’s TImes, The Green Revolution and the anthology Blood and Tears. She received a Young Authors Award in Poetry from The Courier Journal. She is a founding member of Baltimore’s Sunday Salon critique group. She wrote a stage play from her poetry, This Is How She Steps on Snakes, which she performed in Baltimore and at Towson University. The journal Grub Street awarded her first prize for slam poetry.

Wren Tuatha is a screenwriter, under the banner Curio Coast Productions. She wrote the feature scripts Bacca Blooms, Strands of Emily, This Is How She Steps on Snakes and My Second Simone. She is currently developing feature film scripts for collaboration with Rattle the Cage and others.

Wren is Artist-in-Residence at Heathcote Center.