July 2020
International Lamplight Residency
This opportunity is amazing: I have been writing every day, peeling into the layers of my memoir to uncover new connections. On the days I step away to work on something different, to take a break, even more connecting threads appear. Back to memoir-in-progress. At last it's cooking. A New International Residency for Writers The International Lamplight Residency is a collaborative project sponsored by Write On Door County in Wisconsin, and Varuna, The Writers' House in New South Wales, Australia.…
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Practicing Poetry: Write New Poems in Winter 2021
“Practicing Poetry” begins January 13, 2021 for six online sessions through March 24th. The class will meet twice a month on Wednesday nights 5:00-6:30 pm eastern, over Zoom. Students can register for weekly sessions here to receive the login link. Please register for every Wednesday you wish to attend. Thanks to Delaware Libraries, registration is free! We welcome teens and adults, all levels, including beginners. In Practicing Poetry, we'll generate new poems from prompts and model poems. We'll read work…
Find out more »April 2021
Practicing Poetry: Writing into Spring
. . . from this yard I have been composing a great speech, that I write about myself, that it’s good to be a poet, that I look like the drawing of a house that was pencilled by a child, that curiously, I miss him and my mind is not upon the Pleaides, that I love the ocean and its foam against the sky …
Find out more »The Eye, the World and the Self: Ecopoetry
In the wren song of brief rain, what matters is that we instill the darkness with jade --Arthur Sze, "The Angle of Reflection equals the Angle of Incidence" To write poetry is to believe in renewal, invigoration and regeneration. Can poetry heal the world? If the answer is 'yes,' then hope lies in each poet's insistence…
Find out more »June 2021
Gentle Now: Writing into Summer. A poetry writing class
This is a virtual class held via Zoom. This poetry writing class, suitable for beginning and experienced writers, will take inspiration from the natural world. We will write, in other words, about our relationship to our worlds, and our responsibilities to each other. For example, we will read Juliana’s Spahr’s long poem “Gentle Now, Don’t Add to Heartache." And we will read works of contemporary poets, and share selected visual art in the Delaware Art Museum’s collection. Participants will…
Find out more »October 2021
Harvest: Poetry Writing Class (4 virtual meetings)
Class meets Wednesdays: October 6, October 13, October 20, October 27 from 5:00 to 6:30pm EDT. →REGISTER ← In this four-week poetry class, we'll ask ourselves, "What is a successful harvest?" How have we gathered nourishment for our lives--food and water, material comfort, spiritual wealth, love--and how do we disperse that nourishment? No, no, there is no going back. Less and less you are that possibility you were. More and more you have become those lives and deaths that…
Find out more »March 2022
Women’s Herstory Month Poetry Night (virtual)
Women's Herstory Month Poetry Night Poetry night for Womxn's Herstory Month is Wednesday March 16 6:30 to 8:00 eastern on Zoom (register to receive a link) at the Woodlawn (DE) Library. Join us in a celebration of women artists. Local poets will share their work in an intimate gathering through Zoom. Listen to the work of five fabulous Delaware authors: JoAnn Balingit, former Poet Laureate, Devon Miller-Duggan, Maria Keane, Maria Masington, and Lindsey Warren. Be sure to look for their books…
Find out more »May 2022
Naming the Nameless: A Writing Retreat for Marginalized Voices
“Your silence will not protect you.”― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches "Naming the Nameless: A Writing Retreat for Marginalized Voices" is for beginning writers and writers with previous experience. It's an opportunity for people who love to write and create in community. We'll share our stories. We'll give ourselves space and the tenderness it takes to be creative. Your participation will lay a community foundation for widening circles of storytelling and cultural healing. This 4-day 3-night writing and…
Find out more »June 2022
Reading, and debut of Visual Poetry
Award Winners XXII Opening Reception and Concert I will read a nonfiction excerpt from my hybrid genre memoir What Were the Names of the Trees? In addition, this opening reception at the Biggs Museum debuts my visual essay-poem "Don't Erase Me" and in collaboration with my sister, comic artist Maria Balingit, a graphic narrative version of my essay "The KFC." Writers, musicians, composers and visual artists participating in this event are recipients of the Delaware Division of the Arts 2022 fellowships.…
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during the West Street Art Festival's 12 to 1pm line-up, with Traci Currie and Delaware women writers, participants in Naming the Nameless May 2022 writing retreat. WHERE: At the 3rd Annual West Street Art Festival (sponsored by The Delaware Contemporary, 200 South Madison Street, Wilmington, DE 19801, 302.656.6466) WHEN: 11 AM TO 3 PM Sunday June 12 The CityFest Arts Work Performances will be emcee'd by Kaira Brown and Ameerah James. Program Director, Traci Currie. "This day of creative…
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