the poet electric

FYI: The fabulous TSAURAH LITZKY is teaching this class at the Bowery Poetry Club.

THE POET ELECTRIC
Poetry Into Performance: From The Page To The Stage and Beyond

If you want to write the poems you've always dreamed of and perform they so they dazzle and shine, this workshop, taught by Tsaurah Litzky and open to poets at all levels is for you. Become a poet electric, learn to move with ease between the word on the page and the word on the stage.Create stellar poetry and present your work with ease and confidence as you move up and out into new universes of clouds and time, iconoclastic rhythm and rhyme.

In this four-week intensive workshop, you will have the opportunity to craft autobiographical poetry, narrative poems, political poetry, prose poem, haikus, sonnets and more. We will learn from poems by great bards including Keats, Walt Whitman, Sappho, Mary Oliver, Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski, Ann Carson. The instructor offers written commentary on all work and we share and discuss our writing. Develop and refine your individual poetic voice using in-class exercises and homework assignments. Deepen your capacity as a poet as you learn to deliver your poems in a way that will rock your socks and everyone else too!
The class is four sessions, 7-9 pm, July 6, 13, 20, 27. At the end of the term we publish our own magazine. Also, on Saturday afternoon, July 30, to further celebrate what we have learned we will have a reading and party at the club

Tuition - $200 -- For questions and information on registration:
tsaurah at mindspring.com or 718-875-1107
Bowery Arts and Science Study Abroad Program
Bowery Poetry Club
Workshop space (downstairs)
308 Bowery @ Bleecker, NYC
htttp://www.boweryartsand science.org

A long time presence on the New York poetry scene, Tsaurah Litzky has read and performed her work in over ninety-five venues. In 2003, Long Shot Press brought ut her book, Baby On The Water: New and Selected Poems 1992-2002. She has also published eight poetry chapbooks, most recently Peach Garden Snapdragon Press - 2005). Her writing has appeared in The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, Long Shot, Cafe Review, The Blacklisted Journalist, Rattapallax, Politically Inspired, Penthouse, Best American Erotica, The Unbearabls, Downtown Poets, Appearances, Clara Venus, Crimes of the Beats and many other books and periodicals. Her novella, The Motion Of The Ocean was published by Simon & Schuster as part of Three The Hard Way, a series of erotic novellas edited by Susie Bright.

A one time member of the Bread and Puppet Theater, Tsaurah studied acting with Uta Hagen and William Hickey. She feels, however, she really began to understand how to present poems on stage in the late 1980's at the Sunday night ABC NO RIO Open Mike run by the great Matthew Courtney. In May 2004, Tsaurah was the featured poet at the Burning Tongues Poetry Festival held yearly in Amsterdam.

Tsaurah teaches in the Creative Writing department at the new School. Her class
Silk Sheets: Writing Erotica was picked Best Writing Class in the Village Voice Best of NYC 2004.