Where You're Calling From

For next time, we leave behind our work-themed essays and head back into poems, courtesy of Billy Collins' "Where I Live."  Check it out here from google books: 

So, please write a brief poem (half a page or less) about where you live.  Good luck writing.  

As promised, here is that scene from Mamet's film Glengarry Glen Ross.  Remember, "Always be closing."  See you 2/25 at 7.

Working, Das Ende

 

For this week's meeting, we are writing our final two paragraphs of the essay we wrote the introductions to at our last meeting.  This sounds more confusing than I had intended, but as I'm pretty sure there are only three people who read this blog, this won't spike the national confusion average much if any, as these three should know what I'm talking about.  As my favorite fortune cookie slip ever stated: "Good to begin well; Better to end well." Let's see your finales this Thursday, 2/11 at 7 p.m.

Working, Part Deux

For this week, bring in a first paragraph or two (half a page) of a Sunday Journal-esque article (see last  week's post for links) from the St. Pete Times on the theme of "work"/ "working."  Pretty simple.  Give it a shot.  See you this Thursday (1/28) at 7:00. 

Sandhill Review Submissions Are Open

Saint Leo Hosts St. Pete Times Editor & Pulitzer Prize Winning Writer on Wednesday, January 27, 7:30 p.m.

SAINT LEO UNIVERSITY
invites you to
An Evening with Professional Writers
Mike Wilson & Lane DeGregory
of the St. Petersburg Times

Mike Wilson, Times managing editor, and Lane DeGregory, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, will discuss Composing First-Person Narratives

Wednesday, January 27, at 7:30 p.m.
Cannon Memorial Library, Saint Leo University, in Pasco County

The writers will also announce a creative non-fiction contest for the Sunday Journal section, co-sponsored by The Times and Saint Leo University’s English Department. After they speak, Mr. Wilson and Ms. DeGregory will answer audience questions. 

A reception will follow.

It's the work, the work, it's just the working life...

Happy New Year, AWGOWCers.  We'll be meeting for the first time this year on January 14th at 7 in the Wiregrass Barnes and Noble.  In an effort to kick start the year and perhaps the economy, we're going to write essayistic proems about a job you have had or currently do have.  As the boss says, we're writing about the working life. 

In addition to these two videos up here from the man himself, (two great poems in their own right) I'm posting two links to the wonderful Sunday Journal section of the St. Pete Times.  Enjoy and see you next Thursday.

 

http://www.sptimes.com/News/022501/Floridian/Sunday_Journal.shtml

http://www.tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/sunday-journal-for-eighth-grade-boy-lunchtime-becomes-a-highlight/1053275

Walk It Out...or Peripatetic Reveries

Fellow AWGOWCers,

The powers that be at our generous meeting place have put a nix on our previously arrived at schedule.  In short, we're back to our normal meeting time, next week (12/10) in the back corner 7 p.m.  This means that the following meeting will fall on Christmas Eve, and we all voted not to meet prior to the day Santa arrives, so it's December 10th and then onto January 2010.  Don't fret though as we have a special project cooking up to knock the curse off the post-Holiday blues. 


That being said, for next meeting, write a poem about walking akin to the last issue of Poetry magazine.  It doesn't have to be anything special: just you walking and seeing.  Be one with the peripatetics.  Kick off your sandals, gaze, philosophize, and repeat.

Happy dreams.

Your faithful,

AWGOWC