All workshops will be held at BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar, Austin — in the third-floor reading/classroom space. All workshops are open to the public and free of charge. Participants should bring paper and pen.
Kurt Heinzelman — The Window Poem
January 15, 2012, 4 – 6 p.m.
Katherine Durham Oldmixon —
Lyrical Bees: Writing Poems Inspired by Biology
January 29, 2012, 4 – 6 p.m.
Abe Louise Young — Birds in the Classroom
February 12, 2012, 4 – 6 p.m.
David Meischen — with thanks to Georgia Popoff —
Tales from the Bathroom: The Curious Path to a Poem
February 26, 2012, 4 – 6 p.m.
Kurt Heinzelman is the author of three books of poems, The Names They Found There (2011), Black Butterflies (2004), and The Halfway Tree (2000). A multiple Pushcart nominee, Heinzelman has been a finalist for best poetry volume of the year from the Texas Institute of Letters.
Katherine Durham Oldmixon is the daughter of a research chemist who changed his major from music, and an English teacher who first studied nursing. A much-published poet, she teaches creative writing and literature and directs the writing program at historic Huston-Tillotson University in east Austin, Texas.
Abe Louise Young is an award-winning poet and journalist, who has long worked to nurture writers in unconventional settings. She has recently published in The Nation, New Letters, and Witness, and is the author of one chapbook of poetry, Ammonite.
David Meischen has been writing poetry and teaching the writing of poetry for twenty-five years. He was the Master Teacher in English for UTeach–Liberal Arts, the teacher preparation program in the College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas, Austin, 2002–2006.