This workshop is only available live to CLMC and MACL students. Other participants will be able to watch the recording.

Topic: "Think of the children!: a workshop on poetry meant for the small set"

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Poems for JonArno's workshop.pdf

(Rothenberg, Jerome. Technicians of the Sacred. “A Song of Amergin”

University of California, Berkeley. 1968; Neruda, Pablo. The Book of Questions. (translated by William O’Daly). Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, Washington. 1974; Hughes, Ted. Moon-Bells and Other Poems. “Amulet”. The Bodley Head, London, 1986; Lawson, JonArno. The Man in the Moon-Fixer’s Mask. “The Octopus and the Seahorse”. Pedlar Press, Toronto, 2003; Gorey, Edward. The Gaschlycrumb Tinies. Houghton, MIfflin, Harcourt, Orlando, Florida, 1963,1991; Berry, James. When I Dance. “Riddle Poems”. Puffin Books, London, 1988; Lawson, JonArno. But it’s so silly: A Cross-cultural collage of Nonsense, Play, and Poetry. “A Story Two Words at a Time”. Wolsak & Wynn, Hamilton, Ontario. 2017; Fleischman, Paul. Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices. “Grasshoppers”. Harper & Row, New York, 1988.)

Workshop Prompt

Bring with you some examples of your own favourite children’s poems. These do not have to be from traditional sources, but they can be. They can also be poems meant originally for adults, hymns, playground verse, vulgar lyrics, pop lyrics, TV theme songs, commercials, musical lyrics, prayers, poems you like. They don’t have to be in English. There may just be a fragment that sticks in your head - bring just that if you like. What other things do you remember that you’ve been told over time? Things that felt important, or well said? Or maybe it’s something you saw. Something brief, that seems entirely visual, but that you’ve never tried to put into words.

Bio

JonArno Lawson.pdf

Zoom Information

Topic: Creative Workshop - JonArno Lawson
Date: Jul 22, 2021 06:45 AM Vancouver

Meeting Recording:
https://ubc.zoom.us/rec/share/AMVoI7cME-yELvvgH6PQZFVmytuuZ7vOyb_-RMtBtigr8cIxTAAo7WMVsSBMsIh1.xp_pPbBrcjlnrOcT

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