In Paul’s solo workshop, Organic Poetry he plays excerpts from radio interviews he’s done over the years (& other sound) with poets in the Organic (Projective, Open Form) tradition. Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, Michael McClure, Eileen Myles, Wanda Coleman, etc.)

This workshop goes from 90 minutes to 24 hours (12 2 hour sessions), costs from $250-$3K, and can be extended to a series of four to twenty sessions to get the in-depth approach. Lecture/discussion/sound alternates with writing exercises.

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For testimonials, click here.

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Outline for 3.30.10 Theory of Knowledge Class, Mt. Rainier High, Des Moines is linked here.

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Outline for March 17, 2010 Powerful Schools Writing Workshop for Teachers, is linked here.

Testimonials from that workshop are here.

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The outline for the 3.21.10 San Juan Island Library workshop is here.

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Personal Mythology of Organic Poetry (This is a link to the Course Outline of the latest iteration of this workshop, facilitated at the Richard Hugo House in April and May of 2009, including salient links to sound, text, etc.)

To what do you train your attention? Organic Poetry is one way to describe the process of training your ear to capture the chaotic energy of the moment, to make composition an occasion of experience. This entertaining workshop for serious writers of all levels of experience includes lively discussions and sound from interviews with poets McClure, Myles, Rothenberg, Ginsberg, Waldman. Through a series of intensifying creative writing exercises over the six week course, you will develop an understanding of your own personal mythology and write at that deeper level of consciousness.