🎤📚🎤💥💥💥TONIGHT💥💥💥🎤📚🎤
Our 2nd session of October will be underway on the 16th from 6-8pm.
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We’ll warm up with a writing exercise prompt(s)
Poet’s Choice:
♾️Option 1♾️
Respond to the excerpt taken from
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
by Rick Rubin (See slides as well)
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“Patience is required for the nuanced development of your craft.
Patience is required for taking in information in the most faithful way possible.
Patience is required for crafting a work that resonates and contains all that we have to offer.”
♾️Option 2♾️
Respond to the line taken from
The Short Story “Pomegranate Seeds”
contained within the collection…
Speak, Bird,
Speak Again
Palestinian Arab Folktales
by
Ibrahim Muhawi
and Sharif Kanaana
with a new foreword
by Ibtisam Barakat
(See slides as well)
“Like my own eyes.”
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With the necessary collaborative help from @ourcenterreno we’re continuing a new poetic journey: @truecolorspoetry (IG) ♾️{Since 2/7/24}♾️
We will meet on the 1st & 3rd Wednesdays of every month. The event is part workshop, part open mic, all love. Free to attend. ALL AGES. Materials provided. Bring your true colors and let them shine.
Assistant Director and Co-Host: @cheyennemxg
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💥💥💥Next gathering (after 10/16/24): Wednesday, 11/6/24 – 6:00pm-8:00pm – 1745 S. Wells Ave., Reno NV, 89502
The host will be there starting at 5:45pm for anyone who wants to engage in writing exercises beforehand as a warm-up to the Open Mic/ Sharing portion.
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From Host: @sidewayseightprojects
I’m honored to serve as Poet Laureate for @cityofreno in collaboration with @renobigartslittlecity as the 5th to do so since the creation of the position. My tenure will run from January 2024 through December 2025.
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