1. Paul Gruchow Essay Contest Event 2008 PDF - page1; page2
2. Digging to the Roots Workshops 2008-9 PDF
3. Elizabeth Fries Ellet Interpretive Trail 2008 Events PDF
Events at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum 2008-2009
Paul Gruchow Essay Contest Reception and Reading
With Joe and Nancy Paddock
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Fireplace Room or old Tea Room (both rooms booked)
2 to 5pm
Cosponsored by the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum and Writers Rising Up
Admission- $5.00 plus $7.00 gate fee for non-Arboretum members
Essay Submission Information on Submissions Page
Submission Guidelines on Submissions Page
Deadline April 8, 2008
Schedule-
Reception
Paul Gruchow Essay Contest Award Announcement
Readings by Winners
Readings by Joe and Nancy; Stories about Paul
Nancy Paddock
TRUST THE WILD HEART -Red Dragonfly Press
Joe Paddock
A SORT OF HONEY - Red Dragonfly Press
BOARS' DANCE - Holy Cow!
HANDFUL OF THUNDER - Anvil Press
Paul Gruchow
Grass Roots: The Universe of Home- Milkweed Editions
The Necessity of Empty Places- Milkweed Editions
Digging to the Roots: Poetic Form and the Natural World-
Cosponsored by the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum and Writers Rising Up- Follow the wheel of the year with us in this four-workshop series May, Aug, Oct -2008 February- 2009. Each season, writers will meet to read classic and contemporary poems and do creative exercises, focusing on a different poetic form each time--odes and elegies; villanelles and sestinas; dramatic monologues; and sonnet—and exploring that form’s metaphoric equivalent in the arboretum: ephemerals, perennials, invasive species, and seeds. After having come full circle, poems grown over the year together will be chosen for a Chapbook published by Red Dragonfly Press. Part of each workshop will be spent journaling outdoors; please wear weather appropriate clothing and bring a journal and favorite pen. Chapbook submission and workshop information at www.writersrisingup.org
With Scott King, editor of Red Dragonfly Press, and Larry Gavin, Red Dragonfly Press poet
Scott King grew up just east of the North Dakota / Minnesota border in Pelican Rapids. He is founder and editor of Red Dragonfly Press. He is author of one book of poems, Leftover Ordinary (Thistlewords Press,2006) and a number of letterpress printed editions. He has translated books by the Persian poet Fereydoun Faryad and the Greek poet Yannis Ritsos. He lives in Northfield, Minnesota.
Workshop Dates
Saturday- May 31, 2008- 9:30AM-12:30PM
Saturday- August 16, 2008- 9:30AM-12:30PM
Saturday- October 4, 2008- 9:30AM-12:30PM
Saturday- February 21, 2009- 9:30AM -12:30PM
Reading Chapbook Celebration scheduled for 2009-
- Workshops and Submissions to culminate in a Chapbook published by Red Dragonfly Press.
- $75.00 per person per workshop includes gate fee and celebration.
- Workshop series: $300.00 includes gate fee and celebration
Classes
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
3675 Arboretum Drive
Chaska, MN 55318
Chapbook Submission Process-
For consideration in a Chapbook published by Red Dragonfly Press you may submit poems on typed, white paper, contact information and writer's name on separate piece of paper. This is the submission process for those not attending the workshops. Please send $5.00 per poem reading fee. (workshop attendees are not required to pay to submit work, which they can submit any time before the deadline. However, they must identify the workshop(s) they attended.) The best poems will be selected for publication in a Chapbook published by Red Dragonfly Press. Please send only original unpublished work; author retains all rights but waives recompense. Poems will be selected by the publisher. Proceeds from the Chapbook will go to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum and Writers Rising Up.
Send work and make out checks to:
Writers Rising Up
16526 W. 78th St. #163
Eden Prairie, MN 55346
Submissions January 1, 2008 to Deadline for poems-February 21, 2009
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