Join Kate for a one-day workshop on Saturday, 12/1
Take a daylong deep dive into the art and process of poetry translation, and see how exploring translation energizes your own practice of writing—whether or not you, yourself, perform translation work. Before the class meeting, we will read selections from the exciting new book Into English, a collection of various poems in side-by-side multiple translations plus essays on the craft of poetry translation, edited by Martha Collins and Kevin Prufer.
The workshop day itself will begin with prompt-writing time to generate a fresh draft, which we’ll then play with throughout the rest of the day as we alternate between reading discussion and translation-inspired exploratory and revision exercises. Though anyone who wishes to play with translation (in the traditional sense) during the day’s writes is heartily invited to do so, Kate will focus the discussion and writing prompts on the imaginative inspirations and nuts-and-bolts craft skills that an encounter with translation makes available to us as we write in our only and/or primary language(s).
Learn more or email Kate at kate (at) kateasche (dot) com to register today!
Come out to SPC Monday night, December 10, to hear new work by Kate’s 2017-18 workshop members!
Over a period of eight months in 2017-18, Kate Asche led a group of women poets on a journey of (re)discovery into “the beginner’s mind of poetry.” As we learned, and learned anew, key craft concepts such as the line and line endings, rhythm and meter, use of negative space, organic and received forms, figures and more, we wrote two new poems each month. We spent our final three class sessions in two rounds of revision as well as in practicing the performance of our poems. On December 10, join this incredible group of writers at Sacramento Poetry Center to celebrate the challenges, discoveries and triumphs they experienced during this humbling and inspiring journey to poetry’s roots! Reading starts at 7:30 p.m., with the customary open mic to follow.
KATE ASCHE, M.A., is a writer, teacher, editor and literary community builder working in Sacramento. her first poetry collection, the chapbook Our Day in the Labyrinth, was published a few years ago by Finishing Line Press.
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BARBARA BRANDES is new to poetry. This class last year was her first foray. Watch for themes from the natural world. She is not new to writing; she and several colleagues formed a writing group ten years ago, where she has focused on family memoir. Barbara works as a psychologist in private practice.
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KAREN DURHAM has only recently learned through fellow poets that the world is nothing like what she was told. She contributes spoken-word stories, essays and poetry to Writers On the Air and has had short stories and non-fiction published in American River Review and California Update.
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BETHANIE HUMPHREYS is a writer, editor, and mixed-media visual artist. She is a Sacramento Poetry Center board member, and SPC Art Gallery curator. She was Editor in Chief of the 2015 American River Review, and is currently Associate Editor and Art Director for Tule Review. Her chapbook, Dendrochronology, will be published by Finishing Line Press in June, 2019.
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HEATHER JUDY is a poet and artist living in Sacramento. She is a Sacramento Poetry Center board member, an associate editor for Tule Review, and co-curates for the Sacramento Poetry Center art gallery.
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KATHY LES decades ago earned a B.A. in English from U.C. Berkeley, thinking herself an analytical reader but never a writer. She circled her way into writing in many forms over the course of her various careers until she found her way to poetry and fiction, where she now spends her writing days. He work has been published in Soul of the Narrator and Tule Review.
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LISA LUDDEN is the author of the chapbook Palebound, and her poem, “How is Home,” is a finalist for the Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize 2018. Her poems appear in Tule Review (forthcoming), Natural Bridge, Mockingheart Review, and elsewhere. She is currently at work on her first full-length book of poetry.
