Winter and Spring Classes

If you live in the Portland area and could use some creative inspiration to get through the last damp weeks of winter, my writing classes are continuing into March.

Creative Writing for adults at TaborSpace

The Monday group is meeting on three more evenings:

February 23

March 2

March 9

Join us at 6:30-8:00 pm to write from prompts that may lead to new stories, poems and personal essays.

The cost is $12 to drop in for a class.

TaborSpace, 5441 SE Belmont

 

Multigenerational Creative Writing at Beaumont

The Thursday writers will meet for five more sessions (February 12-March 12). While most of the participants are adults, we often have an adventurous school-age writer or two who joins us, and the mixing of generations produces some surprising and inspiring works. The cost ($45 for residents of the area, $65 for nonresidents) can be prorated for the rest of the term.

We meet 6:30-7:30 pm at 4043 NE Fremont Street.
 

And if you're thinking ahead to spring...

 

TaborSpace – Mondays, April 6 - June 1, 6:30-8:00 pm

$12 to drop-in or $80 for all 8 weeks
(No class May 25)

Beaumont – Thursdays, April 2 – June 4, 6:30-7:30 pm

Cost for all 10 weeks - $47 for residents of the Beaumont area

                                      $65 for nonresidents

Registration begins February 23 or just pay at the first class.

The Flight of the Writer

I love it when my adult students take my prompts and go off in their own direction. After reading Billy Collins's poem "The Flight of the Statues," LAW Fraser wrote this piece about butterflies.

The Specimens

The bugs and butterflies were pinned
to the felted cloth,
looking fragile and old.
A slight touch would cause them to
crumble from the pin that was
stuck through their bodies.
In my young mind, I saw them
flying in fields on a sunny day.
It was sad to see the muted colors
they had turned while stored under
glass for fifty years, kept in
a dark drawer.
I wondered where they were caught,
where did they live before they
were captured and killed?
Meanwhile, they stayed in the
box, identified and preserved forever.
Observed by school children studying bugs.
Some of these specimens may be extinct,
some butterflies are almost gone but
these dusty creatures will remain
though we wish they could all
fly away.

LAW Fraser

1/29/2015