Writing Sound to Sound. Poetry Workshop with Mary Pinard and Moira Linehan.

B.H. Fairchild’s speaker in “The Blue Buick: A Narrative” says

    …an able catcher sets his feet

    to avoid the extra step that makes him miss

    the steal at second, a poet hears the syllable

    before the word, a good machinist “feels” the cut

    before he measures it.

The leaders will offer a series of prompts that position a writer

to hear the next “syllable before the word.” During the workshop

itself, participants will begin responding to four such prompts

so that they leave with four new poems started, each employing

a different strategy for writing sound to sound.

Leaders will provide handouts; participants need to come with paper

and pen/pencil.

$25.00

Please register by emailing GloucesterWriters@gmail.com.

Nobody turned away for lack of funds.

 Moira Linehan’s second collection, INCARNATE GRACE, was published by Southern Illinois University Press (SIUP) in April 2015. Her debut collection, IF NO MOON—selected by Dorianne Laux—won the 2006 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry open competition and was also published by SIUP (2007). In 2008 IF NO MOON was named an Honor Book in Poetry in the 8th annual Massachusetts Book Awards.In 2010 Linehan’s poem, “Last Wishes,” received the Foley Poetry Award from America magazine. After careers as a high school English teacher and an administrator in high tech and academic settings, Linehan now writes full-time and occasionally leads poetry writing workshops in the Boston area. She has been awarded numerous residencies, including recent ones at the Cill Rialaig Project in Co. Kerry, Ireland; Fundación Valparaíso in Mojácar, Spain; the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Co. Monaghan, Ireland; the Whiteley Center at Friday Harbor, WA; and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Linehan holds a MFA in Writing from Vermont College. Her website is www.moiralinehan.com.

Mary Pinard teaches courses in literature and poetry in the Arts and Humanities Division at Babson College. She has served in a range of administrative positions there as well, including as Director of the Undergraduate Rhetoric Program, Coordinator of the Creativity Stream in the MBA Program, Writing Center Director, and Division Chair.

She has published poems in a variety of literary journals—including The Iowa Review, Harvard Review, Prairie Schooner, and The Georgia Review—and she has been the recipient of several national awards for her poetry. Her essays on poets, including Lorine Niedecker and Alice Oswald, have been published in critical anthologies and scholarly journals. Portal, her first collection of poems, was published by Salmon Press in 2014. She was born and raised in Seattle.