2018 sun & moon Poetry Festival

The 2018 Sun & Moon Poetry Festival will take place April 28 - 29 in Delaware, Ohio. Benefit readings will be held Saturday at Stratford Ecological Center from 12:00 noon till 4:00 p.m. and at Perkins Observatory from 8:00 till 10:00 p.m. Four workshops, free and open to the public, will take place Sunday morning, also at Perkins Observatory, from 8:00 a.m. until 12:00 noon.​

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Stratford Ecological center: A Celebration of Nature

Events at Stratford Ecological Center will once again include a poetry nature hike and Haiku Death Match. Readers include Jeff Gundy, Juan Armando Rojas Joo, Rikki Santer, Charlene Fix, Furaha Henry-Jones, Chuck Salmons, Jason Kaufman, Susan Glassmeyer, Joanna Schroeder, R. Nikolas Macioci, Rose Smith, Geoff Anderson and Guillermo Arango. Tickets are $7.00 each for adults with children under twelve admitted free.

You may make your reservations online by clicking the button below or by calling 614-935-9115. (Note that you will not receive physical tickets. Your name will be placed on a registration list and you and your party will be admitted at the door based on your name.​​)

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sTRATFORD ECOLOGICAL CENTER RESERVATIONS

perkins observatory: in celebration of the night sky

The Perkins Observatory reading, “In Celebration of the Night Sky,” will be followed, weather permitting, by night sky viewing. Poets reading at Perkins Observatory are Hanif Abdurraqib, Aimee Noel, Herbert Woodward Martin, Kari Gunter-Seymour, R. Nikolas Macioci, Hannah Stephenson, Jeff Gundy, and Dionne Custer Edwards. Tickets are $10 each; seating is limited.

You may make your reservations online by clicking the button below or by calling 614-935-9115. (Note that you will not receive physical tickets. Your name will be placed on a registration list and you and your party will be admitted at the door based on your name.)

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Perkins observatory REservations

sunday workshops, co-sponsored by the Ohio Poetry Association

​Free and open to the public. Please register below for up to two workshops.

• “It’s Element-ary Watson: Writing about Earth, Water, Fire, & Air,” with Terry Hermsen
  So much good poetry grows out of our sensory engagement with the earth, including our on-going experience of these form elements that have for ages shaped earthly processes themselves, as well as our human sensibilities. In this workshop, participants will read some poems that reflect those experiences then dive into writing about our own, exploring our own memories and evoking what matters most.
• "Hai'ku Workshop," with Dave Noble
  ​This workshop will focus on the heart of what it means to craft haiku, emphasizing brevity, word choice, and structure. Fun, fast-paced writing drills will be used to create the raw material which will then be shaped by easy, exciting exercises. The tools used in this workshop can also be applied to long-form poetry, allowing participants not only to write more powerful and succinct haiku but also to be more effective in all their writing.
• “The Lore and Healing Power of Native Plants,” with Susann Moeller
  This workshop will guide participants through writing exercises that explore the lore and healing power of plants. Participants will view a brief web presentation by Ian McCallum to get their creative juices flowing, then learn about the application of poetry as a magnifying glass, a voice for the environment, and a tool that can provide us with a sense of being and mystery.
• “A Resonance of Birds,” with Paula J. Lambert
  Taking a meditative approach to the writing process, this workshop uses bird song and bird facts as a guide to developing new poems. Our emphasis will be on listening, allowing the calls of both living and extinct bird species to guide us to our own, inner voice and the words we put down on the page.

Workshop registration is not required but it is recommended to ensure that your spot is reserved. To register, click the button below.

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Workshop Registration