All events and workshops listed here are held at the Paper Kite Press and Wordpainting Studio in the Mary Stegmaier Mansion, 156 S. Franklin Street, 2nd floor, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702
8 a.m. Prompt and a Coffee January 2nd – January 12th @ 8 a.m. $2 per session Jennifer's in the studio writing, the coffee is brewing...come and join her before work to get some writing exercise in and your first (or third) cup of coffee for the day. A new writing prompt daily. Stay and write or get your coffee and prompt in a to-go container. Wordpainting – Text and Image Studies Monday nights @ 6:30 p.m. Starting January 8th, $10 per session In these workshops we'll study spatial forms of poetry through the use of Tom Phillip's "A Humument" to create altered pages, collect ephemera (we'll take walks when the weather is nicer!) to use in word clusters, wheels and poetic forms, dig through the Dada movement, play with calligrammes, explore storyboarding as a storytelling method, look at the poem as a visual object--line breaks, indents, page placement, and projective verse, write flash fictions prompted from a swim through the magazine bin, and put poems on surfaces other than pages! Each Monday will focus on a different topic and method for exploring text and image. Attend one workshop or all of them as you wish. Third Friday Open Mic @ the Studio Friday January 19th @ 7 p.m. FREE (donations towards coffee always appreciated) Bring your poetry to share at our monthly open mic! January is an all-open mic event. Twelve open slots. Arrive a little early to sign up in advance. Snacks? Of course. Our featured poet for the February reading is Christine Gelineau. You can get a sneak preview of her work here: http://www.christinegelineau.com/ Organizing Your Poetry Chapbook Sunday, January 14th - 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. $15 Bring us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free! Oh, sorry, wrong copy...Bring us the poems you've always been meaning to consider collecting into a manuscript. We all have them! We'll work with you to put them in an order that works, suggest some places to submit your collection and/or give you tips for self-publishing and distribution. Brag Sessions! Last Sunday of Every Month – 2 p.m. Starting January 28th FREE (donations towards coffee always appreciated) Has your work been published somewhere really great? Want to have your work published? Come and share your triumphs and trials in the literary world with us at the studio. Learn where to submit your work from the successes of your fellow writers. Rent the Studio for Your Writing Group Does your writing group need a place to meet? We have a 40-cup coffee pot, a library of poetry, short fiction, prose and reference at your disposal, and plenty of tables and chairs. Email for rates and available times. We are not a non-profit, but we aren't making a profit either. Paper Kite Press and Wordpainting studio is here as a labor of love. No one is getting rich monetarily from poetry. If you want us to remain a touchstone for the literary arts in your community, support us by attending events and workshops, buy our poetry titles and spread the word about what we do! ARE YOU SUPPORTING SMALL PRESSES? If not, now's the time to begin! There are plenty to explore. Paper Kite, FootHills, Bowery Books, Red Pagoda and Etruscan Press are good places to start... If you are teaching poetry in your curriculum and would like some information on getting desk copies of any Paper Kite Press or Kite Tail publications, please email us.
