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New Grotto Poetry Workshop

Matthew Zapruder will be teaching an 8 week poetry writing workshop at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto starting February 22nd, going for 8 weeks, details below.

Poetry Workshop

Instructor: Matthew Zapruder
Contact: matthew [at] matthewzapruder [dot] com
Number of sessions: 8
Meeting times: Monday evenings, 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm; February 22 – April 12
Course fee: $455

Description: “A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words” — William Carlos Williams

This poetry workshop will have three main purposes: to help you understand your own poetry better; to give you strategies for writing more new work (as well as revising); and to illuminate practices, techniques, and mechanisms of poetry in general. We will do this by reading aloud the poems you have written and brought into class, and then discussing, carefully, systematically and in detail, our various experiences as readers and listeners. Our class discussions will focus primarily on exploration of the choices the writer has made: how the small (or large) machine of the poem is working, what it is doing, what the poem seems to be trying to accomplish, and what further possibilities for writing and understanding it opens, for the writer as well as for us, its readers. As one of the goals of this class is to keep you regularly writing, each week I will give you an optional writing prompt. This course is suitable for beginning as well as advanced students: if you have questions about your participation in the course, please contact the instructor.

Instructor bio: Matthew Zapruder is the author of three collections of poetry: his latest, Come On All You Ghosts, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon in 2010. His poems, essays and translations have appeared in many publications, including Open City, Bomb, Harvard Review, Paris Review, The New Republic, The Boston Review, The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, The Believer and The Los Angeles Times. He has received a William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, a May Sarton Award from the Academy of American Arts and Sciences, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship. In Fall 2010 he will be the Holloway Lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley. An editor for Wave Books and a member of the permanent faculty in the low residency MFA program at UC Riverside-Palm Desert, he lives in San Francisco. More information is available at matthewzapruder.wordpress.com.

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SPD's BEST-SELLING POETRY 2009

1. FACE by Sherman Alexie (Hanging Loose Press)
2. BREAKING POEMS by Suheir Hammad (Cypher Books)
3. ZAATARDIVA by Suheir Hammad (Cypher Books)
4. THE MAN SUIT by Zachary Schomburg (Black Ocean)
5. CLAMPDOWN by Jennifer Moxley (Flood Editions)
6. THE BATTLEFIELD WHERE THE MOON SAYS I LOVE YOU by Frank Stanford (Lost Roads Publishers)
7. YOU ARE A LITTLE BIT HAPPIER THAN I AM by Tao Lin (Action Books)
8. RADI OS by Ronald Johnson (Flood Editions)
9. SCARY, NO SCARY by Zachary Schomburg (Black Ocean)
10. HUMANIMAL: A PROJECT FOR FUTURE CHILDREN by Bhanu Kapil (Kelsey Street Press)
11. THE BUSINESS OF FANCYDANCING by Sherman Alexie (Hanging Loose)
12. FOUR LETTER WORDS by Truong Tran (Apogee Press)
13. THE LAST 4 THINGS by Kate Greenstreet (Ahsahta Press)
14. NIGHT SCENES by Lisa Jarnot (Flood Editions)
15. CASE SENSITIVE by Kate Greenstreet (Ahsahta Press)
16. LYRIC POSTMODERNISMS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY INNOVATIVE POETRIES edited by Reginald Shepherd (Counterpath Press)
17. FROM UNINCORPORATED TERRITORY by Craig Santos Perez (Tinfish Press)
18. TO AFTER THAT (TOAF) by Renee Gladman (Atelos)
19. FALLING ANGELS: CUENTOS Y POEMAS by Olga García Echeverría (Calaca Press/Chibcha Press)
20. PINK ELEPHANT by Rachel McKibbens (Cypher Books)
21. NETS by Jen Bervin (Ugly Duckling Presse)
22. THE GOLDEN AGE OF PARAPHERNALIA by Kevin Davies (Edge Books)
23. THE VERTICAL INTERROGATION OF STRANGERS by Bhanu Kapil (Kelsey St. Press)
24. INCUBATION: A SPACE FOR MONSTERS by Bhanu Kapil (Leon Works)
25. EUNOIA by Christian Bök (Coach House Books)
26. PUBLIC DOMAIN by Mónica de la Torre (Roof Books)
27. THE SOUND MIRROR by Andrew Joron (Flood Editions)
28. THE BOOK OF FRANK by CAConrad (Chax Press)
29. MAXIMUM GAGA by Lara Glenum (Action Books)
30. THE POETS GUIDE TO THE BIRDS edited by Judith Kitchen and Ted Kooser (Anhinga Press)
31. NEW DEPTHS OF DEADPAN by Michael Gizzi (Burning Deck)
32. NECESSARY STRANGER by Graham Foust (Flood Editions)
33. ACTION KYLIE by Kevin Killian (ingirumimusnocteetcomsumimurigni)
34. LISA ROBERTSON'S MAGENTA SOUL WHIP by Lisa Robertson (Coach House Books)
35. WITH DEER by Aase Berg (Black Ocean)
36. POETICAL DICTIONARY (ABRIDGED) by Lohren Green (Atelos)
37. SHIMMING THE GLASS HOUSE by Helen Pruitt Wallace (Ashland Poetry Press)
38. A MOUTH IN CALIFORNIA by Graham Foust (Flood Editions)
39. BOY WITH FLOWERS by Ely Shipley (Barrow Street Press)
40. THERE'S THE HAND AND THERE'S THE ARID CHAIR by Tomaž Salamun (Counterpath Press)
41. DOUBLED FLOWERING: FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF ARAKI YASUSADA by Araki Yasusada (Roof Books)
42. THE ALL-PURPOSE MAGICAL TENT by Lytton Smith (Nightboat Books)
43. THE BRITTLE AGE AND RETURNING UPLAND by René Char (Counterpath Press)
44. COMPLETE MINIMAL POEMS by Aram Saroyan (Ugly Duckling Presse)
45. GIRL SCOUT NATION by Yedda Morrison (Displaced Press)
46. ROB THE PLAGIARIST by Robert Fitterman (Roof Books)
47. OLD SHIRTS & NEW SKINS by Sherman Alexie (American Indian Studies Center, UCLA)
48. SOMEBODY BLEW UP AMERICA AND OTHER POEMS by Amiri Baraka (House of Nehesi)
49. THE TREE OF NO by Sandy Florian (Action Books)
50. PETALS OF ZERO PETALS OF ONE by Andrew Zawacki (Talisman House)

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