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• Aug 14 2012

  Other Words Conference

  Flagler College via the Florida Literary Arts Coalition, November 8 – 10, 2012

  Terri Witek’s Workshops:

  Poetry in the Crisp-Ellert Museum

  Friday/Saturday: Poets will generate new work in Flager College’s lovely museum space (next door to the main conference building). Friday and Saturday workshops will be different experiences: each will feature separate poetry challenges, some suggested by workshop participants. Visual artists and photoraphers also welcome.

  Site-Specific St Augustine

  Sunday: After an introductory exercise, Sunday poets will become flaneurs and flaneuses, wandering the city with a series of prompts designed to generate new work. Intervals inside and out, with a rain plan.

  http://floridarts.org/other-words-conference/

• May 29 2012

  Prague Summer Program

  Prague Summer Program, West Michigan University, June 30 – July 27, 2012

  Terri Witek & Mark Jarman Poetry Workshop

  “The culmination of a decade of cooperation with the Faculty of Arts at Charles University, the Prague Summer Program offers writers, photographers and students of culture from a variety of backgrounds the opportunity to be mentored by some of the biggest names in contemporary English-language literature and world photography…”

  http://www.praguesummer.com

• Mar 10 2012

  West Chester Poetry Conference

  West Chester Poetry Conference, June 5 – 9, 2012

  Experimental Forms with Terri Witek:

  From process poems to post-avant, neo-concrete, site-specific, or new media strategies, anything (legal) you’ve ever wanted to try goes in this generative workshop.

  

  http://wcupoetrycenter.com/experimental-forms

• Feb 5 2012

  Disquiet International

  International Literary Program in Lisbon, Portugal, July 1 – 13, 2012

  The Fernando Pessoa Game with Terri Witek:

  Writers and other creative practitioners are invited to reply to the work of Lisbon’s most famous writer during two weeks in his amazing city. A multi-genre workshop of proliferating prompts, the workshop will cross-pollinate the Book of Disquiet with contemporary work. Collaborations or solo writers and artists welcome. 

  

  http://disquietinternational.org

• Oct 16 2011

  “See You Tomorrow Night” on PBS Newshour’s Weekly Poem

  Listen to Terri read “See You Tomorrow Night” from Carnal World on PBS NewsHour‘s Weekly Poem series:

  http://video.pbs.org/video/2129335479/

  ( Read more poems from Carnal World… )

• Apr 11 2011

  Interview with Terri Witek, by 32 Poems

  Serena M. Agusto-Cox interviews Terri Witek at 32 Poems:

  http://www.32poems.com/blog/2105/terri-witek-an-interview-with-serena-m-agusto-cox

  From the interview:

  2. Do you see spoken word, performance, or written poetry as more powerful or powerful in different ways and why? Also, do you believe that writing can be an equalizer to help humanity become more tolerant or collaborative? Why or why not?

  I love ephemeral creations, and as I have been working with Brazilian new media artist Cyriaco Lopes since 2005, have become more and more enamored of doing things that disappear—words and images (he uses photographs and video), sound pieces. We did some ipod voice pieces for an installation and I loved that…watching people lean into the rooms to catch fragments, etc. Of course I still love words on the page. But I really like staging “events” with him where we switch out—it feels unexpected, even when I know what’s going to happen, as I do now with the day you left, a 50-minute piece we’ve done several times. Actually, I find collaboration deeply mysterious and satisfying. I make no larger claims for it except that it puts you right into someone else’s technical stuff in a way that seems pretty magic. Is this equalizing? More that to play together in the same space feels temporary and precious. Maybe world peace would feel just like this.

• Apr 6 2010

  “The Day You Left // Mammogram” on Slate Weekly Poems

  

  Listen to Terri read “The Day You Left // Mammogram” on Slate:

  http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/poem/2010/04/the_day_you_left_mammogram.html

  ( Read more poems from Exit Island… )

• Apr 17 2007

  “Civil Twilight” on Slate’s Weekly Poems

  

  Listen to Terri read “Civil Twilight” on Slate:

  http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/poem/2007/04/civil_twilight.html