Schedule of Events

January 2012

January 23 - 27

    Andrea will be the Visiting Writer-in-Residence at St. Philip’s School, Coral Gables, Florida. For information, contact Headmaster Greg Blackburn at gblackburn@saintphilips.net. During her week at the school she will also give a public reading. Check this website again in the future for specifics.

March 2012

Saturday, March 3 (1:30 - 2:45 p.m.)

    At the annual conference of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs to be held in Chicago, Illinois, Andrea will be one of five writers selected to read from her work in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, where she was a fellow in both 2008 and 2009. The event is titled VCCA Turns 40!: An Anniversary Reading. It will be held in Chicago, Illinois, at the Palmer House Hilton, Crystal Room, 3rd floor. For more information contact Andrea Carter  Brown, at  310-486-5868 or waterrail@me.com. To attend the reading, you must register for the conference. For information on the conference, click here.

Sunday, March 11 (7:00 - 9:00 p.m.)

    This month’s Studio Series Poetry Reading features Andrea Hollander Budy and Carolyn Martin at Stonehenge Studios, 3508 SW Corbett Avenue, Portland, Oregon. For information, contact organizer and host Leah Stenson at leahstenson@comcast.net.

May 2012

Saturday, May 12 (10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., with 1 hour break for lunch)

    Mountain Writers Series presents Dead on the Page? Approaches to Revision, Transformation, and Regeneration, a one-day workshop on revision conducted by Andrea Hollander Budy to be held at the Multnomah Friends Meeting House, 4312 SE Stark, Portland, Oregon. Here’s the workshop description:

    So you've drafted a poem. Now what? In this workshop intended for practicing poets at any level of commitment, we will examine poems-in-progress that seem not yet to have found their final form--poems that don't feel appropriately resolved or that seem to have defied or eluded rewriting--in order to rethink/re-see/re-envision a possible path to a more finished and powerful version. Rather than critiquing these unfinished poems, we will experiment with a variety of revising techniques and sometimes radical editing strategies, some of which may lead to new writing. In addition to delving into participants' work, we will also look at ways other poets have handled this often-tricky revision process. Participants will be asked to submit two poems-in-progress in advance of the workshop.

Cost: $90 (one session) Enrollment: Minimum 6, Maximum 10.
To Register: click here.