Pure Logophilia: a poetry weekend with Samuel Ace and Maureen Seaton
this event is co-sponsored by Chax Press

December 16-18, 2011
$200 (covers some meals, all workshops, and other events.This cost does not include travel or housing costs. Please see full schedule at bottom of page)

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As part of our commitment to create opportunities for established and emerging writers, this program will be open to the public and offers a weekend of classes, workshops, and readings to be held on the grounds of Casa Libre. Residents will be housed at The Historic Hotel Congress. Please email casakeepers@casalibre.org for Hotel Congress's discounted rate information. The Group Residency will feature guest faculty members Samuel Ace and Maureen Seaton.

Workshop Description:

Samuel Ace and Maureen Seaton are the co-authors of Stealth (Chax Press, 2011). Long-time friends, Maureen and Samuel have been collaborating through email for the past three years and are currently working on their second book, a hybrid of poetry, prose, and visuals.

Bring a friend or come solo to this lively generative workshop for poets and writers. We’ll explore collaboration’s infinite possibilities and peculiar permutations. Participants will create new work in collaboration with each other, media, found text, and the yet unknown reaches of the imagination. Techniques will include, but will not be limited to dada, surrealism, ekphrasis, letters, collage, collection, relationship, persona, and secrets. If your solitary work needs a boost, if you’d rather be writing than waiting for the muse, if you want to fall in love with words (again!), or if you’re simply collab-curious—please join us.

Guest Faculty Bios:

Samuel Ace has published widely in periodicals and journals, including Ploughshares, Eoagh, Nimrod, The Prose Poem, an International Journal, and the Kenyon Review. He is a poet, photographer and educator, the author of three collections of poetry: Normal Sex (Firebrand Books), Home in three days. Don’t wash., a multimedia project of poetry, video and photography (Hard Press), and most recently Stealth, co-authored with Maureen Seaton (Chax Press). He is a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts grant, two-time finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in Poetry, winner of the Astraea Lesbian Writer’s Fund Prize in Poetry, The Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction and the Firecracker Alternative Book Award in Poetry. He lives in Tucson, AZ and Truth or Consequences, NM.

 

Maureen Seaton's recent publications include her sixth solo poetry collection, Cave of the Yellow Volkswagen (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2009) and a memoir, Sex Talks to Girls (University of Wisconsin Press Living Out Series, 2008), winner of the Lambda Literary Award. Her previous collections include Venus Examines Her Breast (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2004), winner of the Publishing Triangle's Audre Lorde Award; and Furious Cooking (University of Iowa Press, 1996), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize and the Lambda Literary Award. She is co-editor, with Denise Duhamel and David Trinidad, of Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry (Soft Skull Press, 2006).  Her solo and collaborative work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, Bloom, and elsewhere. The recipient of an NEA fellowship in poetry and two Pushcart Prizes for individual poems, Seaton teaches poetry at the University of Miami, Florida.

Residency Schedule:
(all events held at Casa Libre unless otherwise noted)

Friday, December 16, 2011
5-8 pm: Welcome Dinner and Meet & Greet at Casa Libre

Saturday, December 17, 2011
8-9: Continental Breakfast
9-12: Morning workshop
12-1: Lunch (on your own)
1-5: Afternoon Workshop
5-6: Dinner (on your own)
7-9: Maureen Seaton and Samuel Ace Reading, plus a showcase of pieces from the workshop
9-10: Wine and Cheese Reception

Sunday, December 18, 2011
8-9: Continental Breakfast
9-12: Morning workshop
12-1: Departure Lunch

Call or email Casa Libre with questions:
casakeepers@casalibre.org
520-325-9145