Summer Wednesdays on Cooper Street: Revision Techniques for Poetry
According to Robert Graves, “There’s no such thing as great writing, only great rewriting.” We will read and discuss example drafts of published poems, examining how each subsequent draft brings the poem closer to a place where it pleases linguistically, intrigues intellectually, and moves emotively. You’ll learn a number of revision techniques developed by published poets, and you’ll have a chance to try some of these techniques on poem drafts you bring to class. Open to all level writers. Register here.
Thursdays on the Stoop: Poetry Revision with Caroline Simpson
Thursday, February 22, 2024 | 4:00 PM 5:00 PM | Virtual | Free
This virtual Thursday on the Stoop will be all about revision techniques for poetry. According to Robert Graves, “There’s no such thing as great writing, only great rewriting.” We will read and discuss example drafts of published poems, examining how each subsequent draft brought the poem closer to a place where it pleases linguistically, intrigues intellectually, and moves emotively. You’ll learn a number of revision techniques developed by published poets, and you’ll have a chance to try some of these techniques on a poem you bring to class. Open to all level writers.
Watch the recording of this workshop here.
Poet’s Corner, Nov. 11, 2023 @ 4:30pm
Poetry on Tap @ Wilmington Brew Works, DE, May 22, 2023 @ 5:30 pm
Holly Branch Pen Women and Friends Exhibit at Dover Library
Exercising the Mind’s Eye, A Writing and Drawing Workshop @ Cooper Street, Camden, NJ
Why are so many writers drawn to visual art? Through generative exercises, this workshop explores how drawing can benefit one’s writing, by entering a similar openness, attention, and surrender. Participants will write and sketch alongside artwork, leaving with evocative poem and story starts. For beginners/intermediates.
Date & Time
October 8, 2022
10:00 am-1:00 pm
$60 General; $10 Camden residents
Register here: https://writershouse.camden.rutgers.edu/events/cooper-street-exercising-the-minds-eye-a-writing-and-drawing-workshop/
Lakewood Playhouse presents: The Asymmetrical Embrace
livestreamed performances April 16-18, 2020
Summary of the Show:
When Johanna married Theo, an art dealer dedicated to dazzling Paris with the new Impressionism, she’d unknowingly signed up to support his mad brother’s art. As Vincent’s “attacks” repeatedly disrupt their new marriage and financial stability, Johanna struggles to be a good wife and mother within a triangle of love and conflict.
Delaware Division of Arts Award Winners XX Exhibition Opens at the Biggs Museum, July 8th, 2020
The Biggs Museum of American Art has put together the Delaware Division of Arts Award Winners XX Exhibition celebrating the work of the 2020 Fellows, myself included. The exhibit physically opened to the public on July 8th, 2020. If you’re not comfortable with visiting the museum, you can view the artists’ work virtually through videos like these.
Exercising the Mind’s Eye: A Virtual Writing and Drawing Workshop
This class is designed for writers and artists who are interested in exploring how writing and drawing can inform and inspire one another. Both art forms are side effects of entering a certain state of mind– a kind of openness, attention, and surrender. In this workshop, participants will write and draw alongside artwork in the Delaware Art Museum’s permanent collection– penning original metaphors and poems, as well as sketching, cartooning, and drawing rudimentary portraits. No skill level required for this creative play! This workshop will be presented on July 18, 2020 from 12:30-2pm as one of the breakout sessions at the Wilmington Writers Conference.
4th ANNUAL WILMINGTON WRITERS CONFERENCE: UNTOLD STORIES
- WHEN: 8:00 am – 4:00 pm
- WHERE: Zoom
- CONFERENCE COST: $15 Members, $20 Non-Members, $10 Students
2020 Poem of the Week by the Delaware Division of the Arts
April 6, 2020 – Caroline N. Simpson
This week we welcome Caroline N. Simpson, 2020 Individual Artist Fellow, Literature: Poetry as she recites her poem, “Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand.”
Virtual Creative Writing & Drawing Workshop: Exercising the Mind’s Eye
Saturday | May 30, 2020 | 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
Presented via Zoom, our introductory digital workshop, Exercising the Mind’s Eye, is designed for writers and artists who are interested in exploring how writing and drawing can inform and inspire one another. Both art forms are side effects of entering a certain state of mind – a kind of openness, attention and surrender.In this workshop, participants will write and draw, penning original metaphors and poems, as well as sketching, cartooning, and drawing rudimentary portraits. No skill level required for this creative play!
The workshop will conclude with a reading of Instructor Carrie Simpson’s illustrated poetry from her chapbook, Choose Your Own Adventure and Other Poems. Simpson’s work will be on exhibition beginning June 5, as part of our Award Winners: XX Exhibition.
Member-exclusive registration period: May 7-13.
Open to Non-Members on May 14.
Registration Fee
Members: $8
Non-Members: $10
If you have any questions about this event, please email kmatulewicz@biggsmuseum.org.
Caroline N. Simpson 