Poetry Central Workshop

A one-day poetry workshop!
Facilitated by poets Sandra Kasturi and David Clink.

A fistful of poetry exercises!

The beginner can start writing poems!
The poet with a few books under the belt
can get a good head start on the next collection—
or complete one they are already working on!

Only $75 (Early bird special of $60 if you register by January 22). Register now with Sandra Kasturi (sandra.kasturi@rogers.com)

Recommendations from previous participants:

"I absolutely recommend this workshop if you want to write a bunch of new poems. The writing prompts that David and Sandra picked were very helpful in generating interesting work. It’s a very supportive and productive environment. I wrote 13 poems in one day!"

- Lisa Young
Senior Poetry Editor, Existere

"I can't imagine a better team to lead a poetry workshop. Clink and Kasturi's dynamic workshop was organized, inspired and I liked the pace. Their series of stimulating and imaginative writing prompts kept the poetry coming. A warm and supportive atmosphere."

- L. L.

Facilitator bios:

David Livingstone Clink is the Artistic Director of the Rowers Pub Reading Series, and the webmaster of poetrymachine.com. David’s poetry has appeared in The Antigonish Review, The Dalhousie Review, The Fiddlehead, Grain Magazine, The Literary Review of Canada, and in the anthologies I.V. Lounge Nights, The 2008 Rhysling Anthology, Garden Variety, and Imagination in Action. He is a member of 4 writing groups – The Algonquin Square Table Poetry Workshop; The Muse Cooperative; P-Club; and The Plasticine Poetry Workshop. David taught a one-day class on how to start up a workshop at the University of Guelph in 2003. He was co-publisher, along with Myna Wallin, of Believe Your Own Press, which published 20 quality chapbooks in its 5 year history. He is the author of 5 poetry chapbooks and the editor of 7 others. His poem, “Falling” was nominated for two awards: the Rhysling Award and the Aurora Award. His poem, “Copyright Notice 2525” placed second in the 2007 Asimov’s Reader’s Poll. His first book of poetry, Eating Fruit Out of Season was published by Tightrope Books in 2008.

Sandra Kasturi is a poet, writer and editor living in Toronto. She is currently working on an animated children’s TV series, a novel and another poetry collection. In 2005 she won ARC magazine’s annual Poem of the Year award for her poem “Old Men, Smoking.” She also received a Bram Stoker Award for her editorial work at the on-line magazine, ChiZine. Sandra has written three poetry chapbooks and has edited the poetry anthology, The Stars As Seen from this Particular Angle of Night. Her work has appeared in various magazines and anthologies, including Prairie Fire, On Spec, several of the Tesseracts series, 2001: A Science Fiction Poetry Anthology, and Northern Frights 4. Her cultural essay, “Divine Secrets of the Yaga Sisterhood” appeared in the anthology Girls Who Bite Back: Witches, Slayers, Mutants and Freaks. Sandra is a founding member of the Algonquin Square Table poetry workshop and runs her own imprint, Kelp Queen Press, as well as doing time as Co-Publisher/Editor at ChiZine Publications. The Animal Bridegroom is her first full-length poetry collection.