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This writing circle for queer-identified people focuses on generating new work of any genre. We will write and revise in community through the 100s method popularized by feminist scholars like Lauren Berlant and Dr. Kim Tall Bear. The 100s asks each participant to write 100 words a day on an assigned day of the week. Participants write in one shared document where they can see and take momentum from each other’s work. During the week, writers will be given an optional prompt and are expected to write 100 words on their given day. When the group gathers we will review each other’s writing, discuss the process of generating together, and support each other as we explore ways to take our fragments further. This workshop is titled ‘unproductive behaviors’ because it is dedicated to generating work without adhering to ideals of productivity that harry writers to push out word counts or tangible products. By depending on a group of writers to generate in concert (akin to singing in the round), the 100s process invites us to dally in the process. Fee: $120 per person Dates: 5-7pm Mondays for 6 weeks. Jan 8 – Feb 12 Scholarship: two free spots open for…

Join us for a generative poetry workshop this January. We’ll play with forms, use sizzling hot poems as jumping-off points, and get into our bodies in order to flex our voices, all in a warmly supportive space. Poets of all levels are welcome, just bring a way to write and your enthusiasm for words–what they can do and the places where they’re not enough! Taught by Adrie Rose, editor of Nine Syllables Press at Smith College, and author of I Will Write a Love Poem (Porkbelly Press) and Rupture (Gold Line Press).

This writing circle for queer-identified people focuses on generating new work of any genre. We will write and revise in community through the 100s method popularized by feminist scholars like Lauren Berlant and Dr. Kim Tall Bear. The 100s asks each participant to write 100 words a day on an assigned day of the week. Participants write in one shared document where they can see and take momentum from each other’s work. During the week, writers will be given an optional prompt and are expected to write 100 words on their given day. When the group gathers we will review each other’s writing, discuss the process of generating together, and support each other as we explore ways to take our fragments further. This workshop is titled ‘unproductive behaviors’ because it is dedicated to generating work without adhering to ideals of productivity that harry writers to push out word counts or tangible products. By depending on a group of writers to generate in concert (akin to singing in the round), the 100s process invites us to dally in the process. Fee: $120 per person Dates: 5-7pm Mondays for 6 weeks. Jan 8 – Feb 12 Scholarship: two free spots open for…

Join us for a generative poetry workshop this January. We’ll play with forms, use sizzling hot poems as jumping-off points, and get into our bodies in order to flex our voices, all in a warmly supportive space. Poets of all levels are welcome, just bring a way to write and your enthusiasm for words–what they can do and the places where they’re not enough! Taught by Adrie Rose, editor of Nine Syllables Press at Smith College, and author of I Will Write a Love Poem (Porkbelly Press) and Rupture (Gold Line Press).

This writing circle for queer-identified people focuses on generating new work of any genre. We will write and revise in community through the 100s method popularized by feminist scholars like Lauren Berlant and Dr. Kim Tall Bear. The 100s asks each participant to write 100 words a day on an assigned day of the week. Participants write in one shared document where they can see and take momentum from each other’s work. During the week, writers will be given an optional prompt and are expected to write 100 words on their given day. When the group gathers we will review each other’s writing, discuss the process of generating together, and support each other as we explore ways to take our fragments further. This workshop is titled ‘unproductive behaviors’ because it is dedicated to generating work without adhering to ideals of productivity that harry writers to push out word counts or tangible products. By depending on a group of writers to generate in concert (akin to singing in the round), the 100s process invites us to dally in the process. Fee: $120 per person Dates: 5-7pm Mondays for 6 weeks. Jan 8 – Feb 12 Scholarship: two free spots open for…

--Vous parlez français? --Euh... oui, un peu. If this is you, and you would like to put a few drops of oil on your rusty French conversation skills, have a seat at La Table Française, the 4th Tuesday of the month, from 5:30 - 6:30 pm, in the GPL Conference Room. This is an intermediate conversation group, not a class. Tamara Grogan, Greenfield resident and 25-year veteran French teacher, will facilitate. If interested, please send an email to Tamara at lagrogan1@gmail.com. À bientôt! This program is free and intended for ages 16+.

Join us for a generative poetry workshop this January. We’ll play with forms, use sizzling hot poems as jumping-off points, and get into our bodies in order to flex our voices, all in a warmly supportive space. Poets of all levels are welcome, just bring a way to write and your enthusiasm for words–what they can do and the places where they’re not enough! Taught by Adrie Rose, editor of Nine Syllables Press at Smith College, and author of I Will Write a Love Poem (Porkbelly Press) and Rupture (Gold Line Press).

This writing circle for queer-identified people focuses on generating new work of any genre. We will write and revise in community through the 100s method popularized by feminist scholars like Lauren Berlant and Dr. Kim Tall Bear. The 100s asks each participant to write 100 words a day on an assigned day of the week. Participants write in one shared document where they can see and take momentum from each other’s work. During the week, writers will be given an optional prompt and are expected to write 100 words on their given day. When the group gathers we will review each other’s writing, discuss the process of generating together, and support each other as we explore ways to take our fragments further. This workshop is titled ‘unproductive behaviors’ because it is dedicated to generating work without adhering to ideals of productivity that harry writers to push out word counts or tangible products. By depending on a group of writers to generate in concert (akin to singing in the round), the 100s process invites us to dally in the process. Fee: $120 per person Dates: 5-7pm Mondays for 6 weeks. Jan 8 – Feb 12 Scholarship: two free spots open for…