Follow the wheel of the year with us in this four-workshop series.

Each season, writers will meet to read classic and contemporary poems and do creative exercises,focusing on a different poetic form each time—

Odes and elegies; villanelles and sestinas; dramatic monologues; and sonnet—and exploring the form’s
metaphoric equivalent at the arboretum: ephemerals, perennials, invasive species,and seeds.

After having come full circle, writers will celebrate the chapbook, grown over our year together, with a reading and wine reception.

Part of each workshop will be spent journaling outdoors; please wear weather appropriate clothing and
bring a journal and favorite pen.

With Scott King, editor of Red Dragonfly Press and Larry Gavin, Red Dragonfly Press poet.

Dates:
Change to 2009-
Saturday- May 31, 2008- 9:30AM-12:30PM
Saturday- August 16, 2008- 9:30AM-12:30PM
Saturday- October 4, 2008- 9:30AM-12:30PM
Saturday- February 21, 2009- 9:30AM -12:30PM

Reading Chapbook Celebration scheduled for 2009-

Cost to participants included in price of workshop- Gate fee not included.

Non-participants
$5.00 plus, gate fee not included.
Workshops and Submissions to culminate in a chap book published by Red Dragonfly Press.
$75.00 per person per workshop
Gate fee included.

Sign up for four workshops: $300.00

Please send checks to:
Classes
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
Indicate dates of workshop sessions
3675 Arboretum Drive
Chaska, MN 55318

Fee Schedule-
$75.00 per workshop-gate fee included
$300 for four workshops-gate fee included

Reading Chap Book Celebration price included. Gate fee included.

Digging to the Roots: Poetic Form and the Natural World Submissions
For consideration in a Chap Book published by Red Dragonfly Press

Submissions if you are not attending a workshop are $5.00 per poem.
(workshop attendees are not required to pay for submitting)
Deadline-February 21, 2009
Send Submissions to:

Writers Rising Up
16526 W. 78th St #163
Eden Prairie, MN 55346

Deadline is Feb 21, 2009
No limit on submissions.