Classes for Teachers

Writing Classes for Teachers are a series of classes that help teachers develop and nurture a love of (and comfort with) writing. Hugo House instructors and other guest writers provide strategies for strengthening writing and, by example, instruction. Featured presenters offer exercises in narrative and nonnarrative forms, allowing for plenty of writing time.

All classes take place in the Hugo House Cabaret. Teachers of all grade levels are invited. Admission is free, though please RSVP to writingclassforteachers@gmail.com to attend.

Questions? Email Arni Adler at writingclassforteachers@gmail.com.

Writing Classes for Teachers are co-sponsored by Powerful Schools, a nonprofit organization that promotes and supports high-quality educational enrichment among a coalition of public elementary schools.

Organic Poetry with Paul Nelson
Wednesday, March 17, 5-7 p.m.

Is the universe a machine based on competition, or an organism based on process, interdependence and relationship? Organic Poetry, a stance toward poem making dubbed by Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov, allows the moment of composition to be an occasion of experience, an experiment in consciousness. This entertaining workshop includes discussion of poets Charles Olson, Denise Levertov, Joanne Kyger, Michael McClure and others, sound from these poets and writing exercises designed to help you allow the act of writing to be an exhilarating revelation of content.

Classes for Teachers are free, though please RSVP to writingclassforteachers@gmail.com.

Paul NelsonAbout Paul Nelson
Paul Nelson, cofounder of SPLAB, has completed the first book of a long poem reenacting Auburn history entitled “A Time Before Slaughter” (Apprentice House, 2009). During 26 years in radio, he has interviewed Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Anne Waldman, Eileen Myles and others. Paul earned his M.A. from Lesley University in Organic Poetry, a study of North American poets writing spontaneously. He writes at least one American Sentence every day