[Jan Schreiber]

If you're able to make it to Gunnison, Colorado, this summer, to the Writing the Rockies literary conference at Western State Colorado University July 22-26, I invite you to sign up for my workshop called Breaking the Pentameter. It's not just the pentameter we're breaking; we'll actually be exploring alternatives to standard iambic meters, such as syllabics, accentual meters, the Phoenix line (a combination of trochaic and iambic meter used in Shakespeare's The Phoenix and the Turtle), shape poems, and invented meters. The idea is to develop and practice other ways of ordering the line, to enlarge the sonic resources of writers who long for variety but not for free verse.

This year the conference offers a full array of panels, seminars, and workshops modeled on the West Chester program. I'll also be hosting a symposium on poetry criticism with nine distinguished poet-critics. Anyone may attend, and audience comments are welcome.

Here's the link: http://www.western.edu/academics/gra...ockies/writing

[Tim Murphy]

Jan, I wish you the best of luck in Gunnison. Wendy V will read for me there, and Cathy C will read for me at Poetry by the Sea. Tim