EXPLORING THE SACRED & THE ORDINARY WITH FOUR WOMEN POETS

EXPLORING THE SACRED & THE ORDINARY WITH FOUR WOMEN POETS
Fridays May 20, 27; June 3 and 10 from 1-3:30
Instructor: Catherine O’Brian
Guest Poet: L.R. Berger

Cost: $200

In this four-week class we will explore the “Sacred and the Ordinary” with four women poets: Gwendolyn Brooks, Jane Kenyon, Lucille Clifton and Eavan Boland. I will facilitate discussions, offer writing prompts and talk about revision strategies.

Guest poet and author, L.R. Berger will join us on June 3 to share a few of her own poems, her writing process and life-long appreciation for the work of Gwendolyn Brooks.

This workshop is open to everyone. You don’t need to know how to write poems and you don’t need to know anything about the poets under discussion. Please bring a journal and pen plus your curiosity and imagination. Using the Twiggs Gallery’s art exhibits and diverse poetic styles we will generate new poems in a supportive environment.
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Twiggs Gallery
603-975-0015

Rice Pudding Poetry Presents L.R. Berger December 16, 2021

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This year’s Rice Pudding Poetry Podcast, featuring L.R. Berger, continues December 16 with a show that illumines “the sacred in the ordinary” through poetry and music.

L.R. is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the PEN New England Discovery Award, the NH State Council on the Arts, The MacDowell Colony, Hedgebrook, the Blue Mountain Center, and Wellspring, and a Visiting Artist at The American Academy in Rome.  Her collection of poems, “The Unexpected Aviary,” received the Jane Kenyon Award for Outstanding Book of Poetry. L.R’s newest collection, called Indebted to Wind, was published in August by Deerbrook Editions.

L.R. also received a grant from NH Audubon and the Blue Mountain Center to research, write and live at Rachel Carson’s home in Southport, Maine, which inspired poems and an essay on Carson for the eco-philosophical primer, “In Praise of Nature.”

For 15 years L.R. taught creative writing at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. With the late Palestinian artist and writer, Kamal Boullatta, she assisted in the translation from the Arabic of “Beginnings,” by the poet Adonis (Pyramid Atlantic Press).

L.R. is joined by musician Jon Prichard, who plays Native American Flute for this show. Our Community Readers Elizabeth Antalek, David Phreaner, Mimi White, and Cathy Wolff will read poems they have selected for the theme.

This episode will be published on December 16 and will be available thereafter at: https://ricepudding.podbean.com/

Or find us on Spotify by searching Rice Pudding Poetry.

Welcome to the new platform for writer L.R. Berger

Over the coming weeks this site will be under construction. We shall be figuring out organization and navigation options, while at the same time trying to have some informative content.

Eventually what you’ll find here is news about L.R. Berger’s new book, as well as information about her first book, The Unexpected Aviary, a prize winning poetry book. There will also be posts relevant to L.R. Berger’s writing, interests, and experience in the writing community over the years .