Guest Leader
2nd Thursday, October 13 ~ Alameda Island Poets Workshop on Zoom
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Hosted by: Marilyn Flower and Cathy Dana
Featured leaders:
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Hosted by: Marilyn Flower and Cathy Dana
Featured leaders:
The workshop will center on techniques of cut-up writing. Here's what Dale says about it:
"Cut-up writing has been around since at least 1766, but started really taking off with the Dada movement in the 1910's and 1920's and has expanded to include such things as collage, black-out poetry, literary sampling, and other methods of manipulating text (or recordings) to get something that is new, surreal, startling, or even (gasp) silly. It can also be used to come up with new and novel phrases for use in more conventional poetry. Participants should bring some kind of material (old newspapers, magazines, books, junk mail, their own work, etc.) that they can fold in, cut up, draw on, and so forth. At least some of the material should have the same size typeface. We'll use various techniques to make new works, and it should be fun to see what we all come up with."
"Cut-up writing has been around since at least 1766, but started really taking off with the Dada movement in the 1910's and 1920's and has expanded to include such things as collage, black-out poetry, literary sampling, and other methods of manipulating text (or recordings) to get something that is new, surreal, startling, or even (gasp) silly. It can also be used to come up with new and novel phrases for use in more conventional poetry. Participants should bring some kind of material (old newspapers, magazines, books, junk mail, their own work, etc.) that they can fold in, cut up, draw on, and so forth. At least some of the material should have the same size typeface. We'll use various techniques to make new works, and it should be fun to see what we all come up with."
Dale Jensen
Dale Jensen was born in Oakland and has degrees in psychology from UC Berkeley and the University of Toronto. He has seven books and five chapbooks out, has co-coordinated several poetry reading series, and edited the poetry magazine Malthus.
Dale Jensen was born in Oakland and has degrees in psychology from UC Berkeley and the University of Toronto. He has seven books and five chapbooks out, has co-coordinated several poetry reading series, and edited the poetry magazine Malthus.