Crash Course #4 : Feuds + Brews
No rest for the weary. Onward and forward and through and thru.
Crash Course #4 will soon be upon us.
Wednesday, August 26th
7pm-10pm
Back Alley Gallery
262 East 4th Street LL#2
Lowertown-St. Paul, MN
This month we are presented with another DuelingBanjo (tm) of a theme. In honor of “National Canned Beer Month”, we will be celebrating with founders and celebrants of the Back Alley Gallery. In that vein;
THEME #1 : Poems inspiried by / directed toward / influenced by / in repsonse to CANNED BEER.
We will have many supplies of said beer on site to aid in the reading of these works.
THEME #2 : Comes to us from Ellen Skoro. Her request is that we go into a specific memory; more specifically, the worst fight we have ever had with a family member. Enter it, write through / about / around it.
For some of us, perhaps these two themes will intersect. For others, not so much. Either way, I would encourage you to write multiple peices on each theme. How often do you get to read outloud? Bring a couple, the more the merrier. We will drink canned beer, we will read poems, we will polish the stone.
Till then, consider these words from W.H. Auden;
“Whatever his future life as a wage earner, a citizen, a family man may be, to the end of his days his life as a poet will be without anticipation. He will never be able to say: ‘Tommorow I will write a poem and, thanks to my training and experience, I already know I shall do a good job.’ In the eyes of others a man is a poet if he has written one good poem. In his own he is only a poet at the moment when he is making his last revision to a new poem. The moment before, he was still only a potential poet; the moment after, he is a man who has ceased to write poetry, perhaps forever.”
-vapor cloud.
