Meetings and Events for Saturday, April 27, 2024
Saturday Writers Welcomes
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Description: This presentation will focus on the intersection of Poetry and Healing. I will discuss ideas and approaches to writing about illness and healing, including some of the leading writers on this subject and explore a few examples of poems that incorporate these themes by authors including poetry by Lucille Clifton, Wisława Szymborska, and others. Can words really heal? And if so, which ones? How would the healing happen? What would it look like, feel like? Come join us for this presentation, followed by a Q&A.
Bio: A National Endowment for the Arts fellow, Hadara Bar-Nadav is the award-winning author of five books of poetry, including The Singing Pills, awarded the Levis Poetry Prize; The New Nudity; Lullaby (with Exit Sign), awarded the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize and a finalist for the Rilke Prize in Poetry; The Frame Called Ruin, awarded Editor’s Selection/Runner-Up for the Green Rose Prize; and A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight, awarded the Margie Book Prize.
She is also the author of two chapbooks: Fountain and Furnace, awarded the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize, and Show Me Yours, awarded the Midwest Poets Series Prize. In addition, she is co-author of the best-selling textbook Writing Poems, 8th ed. Her poetry has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Believer, The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, Ploughshares, Poetry, Tin House, and elsewhere. Hadara is currently a Professor of English and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
She is also the author of two chapbooks: Fountain and Furnace, awarded the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize, and Show Me Yours, awarded the Midwest Poets Series Prize. In addition, she is co-author of the best-selling textbook Writing Poems, 8th ed. Her poetry has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Believer, The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, Ploughshares, Poetry, Tin House, and elsewhere. Hadara is currently a Professor of English and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Events Schedule:
10:00-11:00 -Members Only- Works in Progress Cafe Prose & Poetry
11:00-1:00 Regular Meeting - Business, then presentation. (Doors open at 10:45)
1:30 LUNCH (separate checks provided) - EVERYONE INVITED to continue networking
10:00-11:00 -Members Only- Works in Progress Cafe Prose & Poetry
11:00-1:00 Regular Meeting - Business, then presentation. (Doors open at 10:45)
1:30 LUNCH (separate checks provided) - EVERYONE INVITED to continue networking
Where we meet:
For 2024, our meetings are temporarily being held at the St. Charles City-County Library Kisker Road Branch. Our rooms will be on the first floor of the library.
Saint Charles City-County Library District Kisker Road Branch
1000 Kisker Road
Rooms A and B
St. Charles, MO 63304
Membership is $35.00 per year
Our meetings are intended for an adult audience, please contact info@saturdaywriters.org if younger than 18
Saint Charles City-County Library District Kisker Road Branch
1000 Kisker Road
St. Charles, MO 63304
Membership is $35.00 per year
Our meetings are intended for an adult audience, please contact info@saturdaywriters.org if younger than 18
New SW member perk! You can now attend our in person meetings virtually via ZOOM! This is a members only perk. An annual membership comes with virtual and/or live admission to and recordings of all regular meetings, access to members-only discussion/critique groups and events, exclusive no-fee contests, listing of your bio and book titles on our website, and more. As has always been the case, anyone is welcome to attend the in-person meetings at the library with a guest fee or paid membership.
Saint Charles City-County Library District Kisker Road Branch
1000 Kisker Road
Rooms A and B
St. Charles, MO 63304
Membership is $35.00 per year
Our meetings are intended for an adult audience, please contact info@saturdaywriters.org if younger than 18
Saint Charles City-County Library District Kisker Road Branch
1000 Kisker Road
St. Charles, MO 63304
Membership is $35.00 per year
Our meetings are intended for an adult audience, please contact info@saturdaywriters.org if younger than 18
New SW member perk! You can now attend our in person meetings virtually via ZOOM! This is a members only perk. An annual membership comes with virtual and/or live admission to and recordings of all regular meetings, access to members-only discussion/critique groups and events, exclusive no-fee contests, listing of your bio and book titles on our website, and more. As has always been the case, anyone is welcome to attend the in-person meetings at the library with a guest fee or paid membership.
NOTE WELL-NEW MEETING PROTOCOL
You may attend in-person or via Zoom. Zoom details will be emailed during the week leading up to the meeting. *Zoom is for members only.
For those attending in person, we will take the following precautions for the health and safety of all:
You may attend in-person or via Zoom. Zoom details will be emailed during the week leading up to the meeting. *Zoom is for members only.
For those attending in person, we will take the following precautions for the health and safety of all:
- Masks are optional for all attendees.
- Hand sanitizer will be available.
- Coffee, water and light refreshments to be shared. You are allowed to bring in food for yourself if you wish.
- Attendance records will be kept in case contact tracing becomes necessary.