A Poetry Boot Camp on April 30

I haven't done a workshop in Toronto in ages. Feels like ages. Certainly not this year. Was it last summer I last led a workshop there? Last spring?

So I'm scheduling a Poetry Boot Camp for April 30. I pretty much always fill up my Poetry Boot Camps, but my presence in Toronto is a lot less these days. My Patchy Squirrel Lit-Serv lands in Toronto every week, but I no longer do. So it'll be interesting to see what happens.

Here are the details:

STUART ROSS'S POETRY BOOT CAMP

Saturday, April 30, 10am-5 pm (w/ 45-minute lunch break)
Symington/Dupont area
$75 includes materials and light snacks

Prepayment guarantees your spot. To register, write Stuart at
hunkamooga@sympatico.ca.

BOOT CAMP DESCRIPTION
A relaxed but intensive one-day workshop for beginning poets, experienced poets, stalled poets, and haikuists who want to get beyond three lines. Poetry Boot Camp focuses on the pleasures of poetry and the riches that spontaneity brings, through lively directed writing strategies and relevant readings from the works of poets from Canada and abroad. We'll also touch on revision and collaboration. You will write in ways you'd never imagined. Arrive with an open mind, and leave with a heap of new poems!


COMMENTS ON MY PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS:

"I really enjoyed myself and felt like I got a lot done. I thank you very much for the stimulation & the relaxed atmosphere."

"Yay! Excited to go back to trying to write poems. I have so many new things to try now. Thanks!"

"I liked being exposed to the familiar in a new, fresh, creative way."

"Just what I needed!"

"I most enjoyed the relaxed pace and the self-directed nature of the work."

"The Boot Camp pushed me beyond my comfort zone in precisely the way that I hoped it would."

"My favourite part was the variety of non-threatening strategies for writing."

"Really informative, really helpful workshop. Great energy!"

"Excellent pacing! The day passes quickly — it really is a boot camp!"

"You always get such interesting characters attending your workshops!"

"Excellent overall. I got a lot of out of it. Money very well spent! I'd recommend it to others."

"Very well-run, well-thought-out workshop! Thanks!"

MY BIO: I am the author of six full-length poetry collections,
including the acclaimed I Cut My Finger (Anvil Press) and Hey,
Crumbling Balcony! Poems New & Selected (ECW Press). My second story
collection, Buying Cigarettes for the Dog, earned positive reviews
across the country, went into a second printing after only two months,
and won the ReLit Prize for Short Fiction. I'm Poetry Editor for
Mansfield Press and Fiction & Poetry Editor for This Magazine. I also
write a regular column — "Hunkamooga" — for the literary magazine
sub-Terrain. In fall 2010 I was Writer in Residence at Queen's
University in Kingston. This spring, ECW Press released by novel
Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew. For nearly 25 years, I've led writing
workshops and I've brought my popular Poetry Boot Camp to venues
across Canada.

Know anyone who might be interested? Please help spread the word!

Thanks.

Over and out.