{"id":46146,"date":"2020-09-13T23:27:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T03:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=46146"},"modified":"2020-09-12T20:54:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T00:54:38","slug":"warren-decker-and-michael-frazier-to-lead-poetry-workshops-at-japan-writers-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2020\/09\/13\/warren-decker-and-michael-frazier-to-lead-poetry-workshops-at-japan-writers-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Warren Decker and Michael Frazier to lead poetry workshops at Japan Writers Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Posted by Tom Baker<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warren Decker and Michael Frazier<\/a> are two JET poets living in Japan who will each be hosting a workshop at the Oct. 10-11 Japan Writers Conference. This year’s conference is being held online, so you don’t need to be in Japan to attend. For details, see http:\/\/japanwritersconference.org<\/a>. Official descriptions of the workshops appear below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warren Decker <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pterodactylic Pentagrameter: Working with Rhyme and Meter<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Craft Workshop<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poetry<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this workshop we will focus on poetry that incorporates rhyme and meter. As a participant, please bring 2-10 lines of rhymed and metered poetry for us to discuss. Please also be ready to share your unique techniques for finding the right meter and rhymes for your poetic lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paradoxically, the confines of rhyme and meter can often serve to open unexpected creative doors. One who sets out to write about \u201cfractals\u201d may find \u201cpterodactyls\u201d swooping into their poem. Maintaining a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed beats might lead a poet\u2014after many hours at the keyboard\u2014feeling as though a supernatural rhythmic force is guiding them to choose the perfect words and in the perfect order. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this workshop, while looking at specific examples of rhyme and meter as exhibited in the participants\u2019 samples, we will collectively attempt to recall the wonderful technical terminology describing syllabic meter (for example: \u201ciambic pentameter,\u201d and \u201cdactylic tetrameter\u201d), but also consider looser and more intuitive accentual poetic rhythms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, we will discuss the incredible variation contained within the seemingly simple concept of \u201crhyme,\u201d focusing on concrete examples to understand how and why certain rhymes work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warren Decker has published poetry, fiction and non-fiction in The Best American Poetry 2018, NOON, The Font, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Acorn, The New Ohio Review, THINK, Sou\u2019wester, Fifth Wednesday, and several other online and print journals. He also performs his poetry online and in front of live audiences in Osaka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Michael Frazier<\/strong>
I AM MY FAMILY (a persona workshop)<\/em>
Craft Workshop<\/em>
Poetry<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a poetry workshop (open to writers of all genres) who are interested in writing about and through their family. We will use the persona form\u2014writing in the voice of family members\u2014to interrogate ourselves. Some poets we\u2019ll look at include Natalie Diaz, Paul Tran, and Julian Randall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No one can move forward without looking back at where they\u2019ve come from. This is the principle that guides this workshop. Persona poetry is poetry in the voice of someone, or thing, other than ourselves: shiba inu, wild iris, Sailor Moon, Kanye West, or even your bed. We will use the persona to focus on and interrogate our own families and make meaning out of the relationships that have formed us. In order to embody the voices of our family (biological or chosen) we must practice radical empathy. While a persona is in the voice of someone else, my hope is that in the poems we will write, we will turn inwards and learn something new about ourselves. We will look at writers who wield the persona and voices of their family with urgency like Paul Tran, Yalie Kamara, Hiwot Adilow, K-Ming Chang, Natalie Diaz, and Eduardo C. Corral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Frazier is a poet in Kanazawa. He graduated from NYU, where he was the 2017 poet commencement speaker & co-champion of CUPSI. He\u2019s performed at venues including Nuyorican Poets Caf\u00e9 & Lincoln Center. On staff at The Adroit Journal, his poems appear in COUNTERCLOCK, Construction, Visible Poetry Project, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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