Workshops led by Tom Daley beginning in September and October of 2010

Workshops led by Tom Daley beginning in September and October of 2010

Workshop for Creative Writers
Four Wednesdays in September 2010
at Au Bon Pain in Central Square
684 Massachusetts Ave. (Near Central Square T Station), Cambridge 02139
5:30-7 pm
Dates: September 8, 15, 22, 29
cost: $100
To register and for information contact Tom Daley at tom.daley2@verizon.net


Poetry writing workshop, Boston Center for Adult Education
122 Arlington Street (near Arlington stop on the Green Line)
Boston, MA
Tuesdays, 5:45 PM - 7:45 PM;
7 sessions starting September 14, 2010, ending October 26, 2010
Cost: $195.00 To register online, contact the BCAE at http://www.bcae.org/ or call 617-267-4430


Poetry writing workshop, Lexington Community Education
Eight Wednesdays 6:15-8:15 pm
Dates: October 6, 13, 20, (skip October 27), November 3, 10, 17 (skip November 24), December 1, and December 8, 2010
cost: $110 (approx.)
workshop held at Lexington High School, 251 Waltham Street, Lexington, MA
To register call 781-862-8043 or go online http://lexingtoncommunityed.org/


Poetry writing workshop
at the Nourish Restaurant
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington, MA, 02420 (downtown Lexington)
Eight Thursdays 2:30-4:30 pm
Dates: September 9, 16, 23, and 30, and October 7, 14, 21, and 28, 2010.
Cost $200
To register and for information contact Tom Daley at tom.daley2@verizon.net


Memoir writing workshop, Lexington Community Education
Eight Wednesdays 4-6 pm
Dates: October 6, 13, 20, (skip October 27), November 3, 10, 17 (skip November 24), December 1, and December 8, 2010
cost: $140 (approx.)
workshop held at Lexington High School, 251 Waltham Street, Lexington, MA
To register call 781-862-8043 or go online http://lexingtoncommunityed.org/


Learning from Emily Dickinson:
An engagement with Dickinson's poems and letters
An eight week online workshop led by Tom Daley
at the Online School of Poetry
http://onlineschoolofpoetry.org/TomDaley.html


Beginning September 12, 2010
Cost : $350 (includes a ten dollar registration fee).

Shall I take thee, the Poet said
To the propounded word?
Be stationed with the Candidates
Till I have finer tried —

The Poet searched Philology
And when about to ring
For the suspended Candidate
There came unsummoned in —

That portion of the Vision
The Word applied to fill
Not unto nomination
The Cherubim reveal —

As Emily Dickinson points out in this poem, both craft and inspiration play an important part in the writing of poetry. In this workshop, weekly (and mandatory) assignments will help you to develop your writing skills and prepare the ground for inspiration (no cherubim provided!). You will learn to compose in some of the forms Dickinson worked in, including the common meter. You will also practice the art of the epistolary poem, create aphorisms à la Dickinson, and write poems to her or about her work, her life, and her themes. In addition, you will write one thoroughgoing revision of one of the poems generated by the assignments.

The enhancement of the art of critical thinking and writing is an important component of this workshop. In addition to composing a poem that results from the weekly exercise, each participant must write and post critiques of two poems by other participants every week.

Please send three poems in the text of an e-mail to the instructor at tom@onlineschoolofpoetry.org to be considered for the workshop. Please do not send attachments.

In addition to his post at the Online School of Poetry (http://onlineschoolofpoetry.org/), Tom Daley serves on the tutorial faculty of Walnut Hill School for the Arts and has lectured on ekphrastic writing at Brown University and teaches writing at Boston area community education venues.


Tom’s poetry has been published or is forthcoming in numerous journals, including Harvard Review, Fence, Prairie Schooner, Barrow Street, Del Sol Review, Diagram, 32 Poems, Salamander, Perihelion, and Hacks: The Grub Street Anthology. His manuscript, Shim, was a finalist for the Emily Dickinson First Book Prize and the Brittingham and Pollak Poetry Prizes. His poetry was nominated for inclusion in the anthology, The Best New Poets 2007. He is a recipient of the Charles and Fanny Fay Wood Academy of American Poets Prize.


PS--Save the date! Tom Daley will be performing his play about Emily Dickinson and her Irish servants, "Every Broom and Bridget," as a one-man show in a benefit for the Concord Poetry Center, Sunday, November 7th, 2010, 3 pm, at the Emerson Umbrella For The Arts, 40 Stow Street, Concord, MA 01742 (second floor--elevator in rear of building). Tickets are ten dollars, and only available at the door the day of the show. Additional donations are appreciated. Hope you can make it.