PVWT: The Truth & Fiction
Poets, Process & Publishing
Wednesday, October 28
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Peninsula Center Library
Purcell RoomA One-Time Workshop Opportunity with Poet & Teaching Artist Peggy Dobreer. For poets new to the craft, as well as experienced poets looking for a fresh boost of creative juices.
This workshop includes 1) a craft talk on free form lyric poetry and its simple conceits; 2) a guided somatic meditation and prompt to loosen the synaptic flow of sensory recall, interpretation, confession, and imagination; and 3) what publishing poetry can mean to the writer and the world. In other words, the truth and fiction of poetry.
Join us for this PV Writes Together event. Learn more about how you can be a part of the anthology.
Peggy Dobreer is a five-time Pushcart nominated poet, former dancer, and life-long teaching artist, whose poetry won the 2017 Poetry Matters Prize in association with the City of Downey and NASA. Her poems are widely published and she has two collections with Moon Tide Press and a chapbook with Glass Lyre in Chicago.
She is the Founder and Artistic Director of Slow Lightning Lit, an online circle of Somatic practitioners who have met daily online since 2021 and has emerged as one of L.A.s many independent micro-publishers serving "uncommon work by uncommon writers who have a clear vision for an uncommon book"
For more information: call 310-377-9584 x601
AGE GROUP: | Teen | Senior | Adult |
EVENT TYPE: | Writing Program | Class/Workshop |
Peninsula Center Library
The original 32,000 sq. ft Peninsula Center Library built in 1967 was designed by pioneers in “green” design, A. Quincy Jones and Frederick E. Emmons. With vertical wood louvers to control sunlight, the original steel and reinforced concrete building also included coffered slab ceilings with recessed lighting, glass walls, and local Palos Verdes stone and white columns. All furnishings were contemporary with many pieces designed by Jones and Emmons specifically for the Library.
In 1995, architects Zimmer, Gunsul, and Fransca (ZGF) renovated and expanded the space, nearly doubling its size. Using the existing concrete-frame building, the building maintains the original entrance on Deep Valley and added the new entrance on Silver Spur. The building also features major public artworks such as the Stellar Axis by Lita Albuquerque, the bronze cheetahs with the stone column by Gwynn Murrill, and the Light in the Forest mural by Myrna Shiras which are integral parts of the building.