EVENT: Norman Jordan’s poetry workshop rolls around again
If life throws me no curveballs Saturday morning, I’m heading to Malden, W.Va., to another one of Norman Jordan’s 10 a.m. poetry workshops. The workshops have been on second Saturdays of the month this year since March (when we were all snowed out). Two of us attended the one in April, and I had to miss last month… some kind of family curveball. Jordan, West Virginia’s most widely published Affrilachian poet, hosts a workshop in association with West Virginia State University. His workshop is helpful, full of careful, candid, wise critiques. Maybe I’ll see some of you there tomorrow.
Here are directions from a workshop press release sent out and quoted here the first time back in March:
Beginning March 8, 2008, a series of adult poetry workshops will be conducted from 10:00 a.m. to noon on the second Saturday of each month at the Norton House in Malden, West Virginia. Participation is for adults only. Norman Jordan, poet and historian, will serve as facilitator.
The Norton House is located at 315 Commerce Drive in historic downtown Malden. It is owned and operated by West Virginia State University. Poets interested in participating in the workshop should bring ten copies of an original poem to be shared by others. The workshops are hosted under the guidance of WVSU’s History and Culture Committee and are free of charge.
For more information call Norman Jordan at (304) 658-5526.
Directions: From Charleston take route 60 East to the Rand-Malden exit. The Norton House is located across from the Fas Chek grocery store at 315 Commerce Drive.
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Don’t forget my recent post — MOUNTAINWORD: Send poems.
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My sister Jill Hornish sent a cat haiku:
Old graying cat waits.
Can he still hear? See the food?
At the bowl he purrs.
And my wife Nancy Burkhammer sent one, apparently in a cat persona:
You were the king
Until I moved from the porch
Crunch! Crunch! I am crowned.
