Prague-based poet Lucien Zell and Michael Dylan Welch lead a FREE workshop and then will be part of our Poetry Is Everything reading and open mic (Saturday June 4th).
Workshop 5:15 to 7pm Description:
Habits of Scrutiny
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
—Yeats
How do you scrutinize your poems in order to improve them? What habits do you have, or can you learn, to scrutinize your writing in deeper and more thorough ways? Join Prague-based poet Lucien Zell and local poet Michael Dylan Welch as they team up for an in-sight-seeing exploration of buried cities of language, pointing out habits of scrutiny aimed to help startle awake your vivid words that waken others. The workshop will include a writing exercise to give us poems you can scrutinize.
Reading and Open Mic - 7:05 to 8:30pm
Features: Lucien Zell, Michael Dylan Welch
Open Mics: YOU
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Bios:
Lucien Zell was born in Los Angeles, raised in Seattle, and now lives in Prague. His writing has appeared in The New Orleans Review, Tikkun, Poetry Salzburg Review, and will appear in three upcoming anthologies. His first American book of poetry, Tiny Kites, was published in 2019. A professional singer-songwriter, Zell's folk/rock album Fall into Flight is available on iTunes and Spotify. Carnival of Shades, a classical piece for which he composed the libretto, premiered in November 2021 at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
Michael Dylan Welch was born near London, raised in Ghana, Australia, and Canada, and now lives near Seattle. He and his Japanese wife recently became U.S. citizens. Michael’s poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies in more than twenty languages. He served two terms as poet laureate of Redmond, Washington, where he is also president of the Redmond Association of Spokenword and curator of SoulFood Poetry Night. He has published dozens of poetry books, cofounded the Haiku North America conference and the American Haiku Archives, and founded National Haiku Writing Month (www.nahaiwrimo.com). His website is www.graceguts.com.