Classes, Discussion Groups, and Workshops

Poetry Workshop with Richard Blanco

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Free Workshop for Educators and Students

In advance of the Hemingway Distinguished Lecture on July 16, poet Richard Blanco will lead a 4-hour, outdoor workshop for local students and educators. The workshop, intended for ages 13 and over, will be held for 2 hours each day. Blanco will lead a conversation and exercises on the first day, and participants will return the second day to workshop their original poems.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to learn from and engage with one of our most influential contemporary poets. To be entered for a chance to join the workshop, email mwilliams@comlib.org with:

          –  Your name
          –  Age/Grade/School (Students*)
          –  School/Specialty (Teachers)
          –  A short paragraph about your interest in poetry or writing

*Recent graduates and students home from college are welcome to apply.

Click here for more information on the Hemingway Distinguished Lecture.

VIRTUAL Creative Writing Workshop

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A weekly group for memoir and autobiography writing, led by Tony Tekaroniake Evans.

Each Wednesday from 6:00-8:00 p.m. (MST) on Zoom.

Registration is required. REGISTER HERE.

The Creative Writing Workshop provides a supportive atmosphere where local writers can share their work. Please bring your favorite books, stories and poems, and samples of your works-in-progress. Writing topics, styles and techniques will be explored weekly.

Tony Tekaroniake Evans is an award-winning journalist and columnist at the Idaho Mountain Express newspaper in Ketchum who has led writing workshops in the Wood River Valley since 2004. He is also a memoir editor and the author of two books of nonfiction: Teaching Native Pride: Upward Bound and the Legacy of Isabel Bond (WSU Press 2020) and A History of Indians in the Sun Valley Area (Blaine County Historical Museum 2016).

VIRTUAL – Drop-In Writing Workshop

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Beginning June 23, join us every other Tuesday for a drop-in virtual writing workshop. 

For one hour we’ll share writing prompts, encourage a writing practice, and share details of a writerly life together.

Register on Zoom for the series and attend as many meetings as you’re interested in.

Talking About Race: A Weekly Drop-In Poetry Discussion

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Wednesdays, June 17 to July 15 | 12:00-1:00 p.m. on Zoom

In response to nation-wide and community events, The Community Library seeks to advance a dialogue around race, equity, inclusion, and understanding. We are choosing to do this through the lens of poetry, specifically the poetry of Americans of color.

Each Wednesday, from June 17 to July 15, we will gather to read a poem together and discuss its challenges and inspirations to how we understand our society and our world. Library staff and guests will lead each discussion, beginning with a reading of the selected poem.

Register here for any or all of the scheduled discussions.

 

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2020 Audacious Read: ULYSSES by James Joyce

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Third Tuesday of every Month | 3:00-4:00 p.m.

Email jdavidson@comlib.org to join this Zoom meeting.

James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) may be more talked about than read. It occupies an intimidating position within the literary canon as a byword for experimental modernism. Joyce helped to forge its reputation, mischievously claiming, “I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.” Even Virginia Woolf, reading shortly after publication, found Ulysses a struggle, dismissing it as “diffuse,” “brackish,” and “pretentious.” Prestige is evident in its perennial placing in lists of “Great Books,” and echoed in its value to collectors. In 2009, a first edition sold at auction for £275,000, the highest sum ever achieved for a 20th-century novel. Yet its reputation for difficulty masks the extent to which Ulysses is warm, welcoming and witty, granting a uniquely intimate perspective on what it is to be human.

– Dr. Katherine Mullin

Reading Schedule

January 21 – Introduction and Episode 1, “Telemachus” (roughly pages 1-23)

February 18 – Episodes 2-6,“Nestor” | “Proteus” | “Calypso” | “The Lotus-Eaters” | “Hades” (roughly pages 24-111)

March 17 – Episodes 7-8, “Aeolus” | “Lestrygonians” (roughly pages 112-175) – *CANCELLED*

April 21 – Episode 9, “Scylla & Charybdis” (roughly pages 176-209) 

May 19 – Episodes 10-11, “Wandering Rocks” | “Sirens” (roughly pages 210-279)

June 16 – BLOOMSDAY! Episode 12, “Cyclops” (roughly pages 280-330)

July 21 – Episode 13, “Nausicaa” (roughly pages 331-365)

August 18 – Episode 14, “Oxen of the Sun” (roughly pages 366-407)

September 15 – Episode 15, “Circe” (roughly pages 408-565)

October 20 – Episode 16, “Eumaeus” (roughly pages 569-618)

November 17 – Episode 17, “Ithaca” (roughly pages 619-689)

December 15 – Episode 18, “Penelope” (roughly pages 690-732)

 

Resources

Recorded presentation by literary scholar Dr. Enda Duffy at The Community Library Lecture Hall on 7 December 2019: https://livestream.com/comlib/duffy

Free digital copy of Ulysses through Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4300/4300-h/4300-h.htm#chap15

British Library online introduction to Ulysses: https://www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature/articles/an-introduction-to-ulysses

Online guide to Ulysses by Dr. Patrick Hastings: http://www.ulyssesguide.com/

 

The Community Library Contact

Jenny Emery Davidson

jdavidson@comlib.org

(208) 806-2620

                                    

Photo courtesy of LitHub.

 

2020 Audacious Read: ULYSSES by James Joyce

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May’s Meeting will be on ZOOM | 3:00-4:00 p.m.

Email Jenny at jdavidson@comlib.org for the Zoom Meeting Number and Password.

James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) may be more talked about than read. It occupies an intimidating position within the literary canon as a byword for experimental modernism. Joyce helped to forge its reputation, mischievously claiming, “I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.” Even Virginia Woolf, reading shortly after publication, found Ulysses a struggle, dismissing it as “diffuse,” “brackish,” and “pretentious.” Prestige is evident in its perennial placing in lists of “Great Books,” and echoed in its value to collectors. In 2009, a first edition sold at auction for £275,000, the highest sum ever achieved for a 20th-century novel. Yet its reputation for difficulty masks the extent to which Ulysses is warm, welcoming and witty, granting a uniquely intimate perspective on what it is to be human.

– Dr. Katherine Mullin

Reading Schedule

January 21 – Introduction and Episode 1, “Telemachus” (roughly pages 1-23)

February 18 – Episodes 2-6,“Nestor” | “Proteus” | “Calypso” | “The Lotus-Eaters” | “Hades” (roughly pages 24-111)

March 17 – Episodes 7-8, “Aeolus” | “Lestrygonians” (roughly pages 112-175) – *CANCELLED*

April 21 – Episode 9, “Scylla & Charybdis” (roughly pages 176-209) 

May 19 – Episodes 10-11, “Wandering Rocks” | “Sirens” (roughly pages 210-279)

June 16 – BLOOMSDAY! Episode 12, “Cyclops” (roughly pages 280-330)

July 21 – Episode 13, “Nausicaa” (roughly pages 331-365)

August 18 – Episode 14, “Oxen of the Sun” (roughly pages 366-407)

September 15 – Episode 15, “Circe” (roughly pages 408-565)

October 20 – Episode 16, “Eumaeus” (roughly pages 569-618)

November 17 – Episode 17, “Ithaca” (roughly pages 619-689)

December 15 – Episode 18, “Penelope” (roughly pages 690-732)

 

Resources

Recorded presentation by literary scholar Dr. Enda Duffy at The Community Library Lecture Hall on 7 December 2019: https://livestream.com/comlib/duffy

Free digital copy of Ulysses through Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4300/4300-h/4300-h.htm#chap15

British Library online introduction to Ulysses: https://www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature/articles/an-introduction-to-ulysses

Online guide to Ulysses by Dr. Patrick Hastings: http://www.ulyssesguide.com/

 

The Community Library Contact

Jenny Emery Davidson

jdavidson@comlib.org

(208) 806-2620

                                    

Photo courtesy of LitHub.

 

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