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There Goes the Neighborhood: Writing from the Landscapes of Memory

A writing workshop with Melanie Almeder

October 13, 6:30-8:30pm

Miami Beach Regional Library, Storytelling Room

227 22^nd Street, Miami Beach

Registration is free.

 

In this writing workshop, poet Melanie Almeder will explore how to invoke and put to use those landscapes of your memory--what the poet Richard Hugo called "triggering towns." Using several literary pieces as examples, we will discover what process each writer uses for tapping into memory; then we’ll look at the ways the stories and music of "the neighborhood" are expressed.  Poets, fiction writers, and those writing memoir are welcome. Each writer should leave with a piece of writing under way. This workshop is limited to 15 participants and pre-registration is required. To register, email [log in to unmask] or call 305-375-5048 by October 9, 2009.

 

This program is presented in collaboration with the University of Wynwood in conjunction with There Goes the Neighborhood, a collaborative exhibition by Mary Malm, Brian Reedy, Claudia Scalise and Tom Virgin. See http://mdpls.org/news/exhibitions/exhibitions.asp for more details.

 

Melanie Almeder's first book of poems, On Dream Street, was a finalist for the Walt Whitman Award and won the Editor's Prize from Tupelo Press. Her individual poems have been published in a range of journals, including Poetry and Five Points.  She writes about art and has worked collaboratively with artists in France, New York, and Ireland.