Bronx Historical Society is presenting "The Kindness Session," a poetry workshop on recognizing the difference between kindness and cruelty to channel that in our writing on November 18 at 6 PM till approximately 7:45. The Poetry Workshop takes place at the Poe Visitors Center, 2640 Grand Concourse, in the Bronx. Subways near the Visitors Center are the 4, B, and D train at the Kingsbridge stop. Buses to the Center are Bx9, Bx22, Bx28, Bx38, and BxM4 (Express bus). The Poe Visitors Center is up the Hill from the Fordham Metro North train stop.
Led by
area poets Elisabeth von Uhl and Anne Leighton, the Kindness Session
will include sharing works from classic and contemporary including Edgar
Allen Poe, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ross Gaye, Maya Angelou, as well as
selected poems from attendees.
Once the
attendees discuss poems, they’ll be encouraged to think of incidents where they
recognize kindness from life experiences, friends and acquaintances, and
how it affected their lives. From there, writers will be encouraged to create a
first draft of poetry. Writers will read their poems, and be encouraged to
revise a first draft by the first week of December. We’ll have a Zoom
get-together with feedback from each other. By Christmas we’ll have created the
first part of an online anthology on blogspot, which poets will
study, and make “final” corrections. The anthology will go live in
2025. Over the next few years, we’ll be adding more poems to the anthology from
other workshops.
Elisabeth
von Uhl earned an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her work has been published
in Lunch Ticket, The Cortland Review, SHIFT, cream city
Review, The Watershed Review, and other journals and anthologies. She
won a 2021 "Bronx Recognizes Its Own" Award, Her chapbook Ocean
Sea, and was published by Finishing Line Press. She’s won
scholarships and fellowships to Vermont College's Postgraduate Writing
Conference, Prague Summer Writer's Seminar, and Greenwich Village Writing
workshop. Visit www.elisabethvonuhl.com.
Anne
Leighton appears on the Grammy-nominated album, Healthy Food for Thought:
Good Enough to Eat, (Audio & Video Labs) reading her poem “Feed Your
Parents Well.” She’s contributed to The Indie Collaborative, The
Literary Parrot, Elephant Journal. Her poetry book The
Leighton Explosion made enough of a profit to use her earnings to
record an original song, “Got My Eye on You, Santa,” which found her a
publishing deal with Sheer Music South Africa/Downtown Music, USA.
Visit workinggalrockandroll.blogspot.com.
For more
information, please reach out to Elisabeth and/or Anne at e.vonuhl@gmail.com
and LeightonMedia@aol.com.
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