Wednesday Night Workshops with Indigo Moor
5:45pm to 7pm weekly. Beginning Oct 16th
Optional in-class and weekly assignments
Module Based, with self-contained weekly lessons,
(so drop-ins are not only allowed but encouraged)
Each class will be one of a set of stand-alone workshops designed to work toward a greater understanding of poetry and fiction and the writer’s individual strengths and weaknesses.
Writing to History and Culture
Wed. October 16: Lesson One — Persona Poems
20 dollars per workshop or 75 dollars for 4.
Indigo Moor is a poet, author, and scriptwriter currently residing in Sacramento, CA. His second book of poetry, Through the Stonecutter’s Window, won Northwestern University Press’s Cave Canem prize. His first book, Tap-Root, was published as part of Main Street Rag’s Editor’s Select Poetry Series.
Three of his short plays, Harvest, Shuffling, and The Red and Yellow Quartet debuted at the 60 Million Plus Theatre’s Spring Playwright’s festival. His stageplay, Live! at the Excelsior was a finalist for the Images Theatre Playwright Award and is being made into a full length film.
A graduate of the Stonecoast MFA Program—where he studied poetry, fiction, and scriptwriting. Indigo is also a graduate member of the Artist’s Residency Institute for Teaching Artists. He is the winner of the 2005 Vesle Fenstermaker Prize for Emerging Writers, a 2009 Pushcart Prize nominee, and 2008 Jack Kerouac Poetry contest winner. Other honors include: finalist finishes for the T.S. Eliot Prize, Crab Orchard First Book Prize, Saturnalia First Book Award, Naomi Long Madgett Book Award, and WordWorks Prize.
Collaborative efforts include the Artists Embassy Intl. Dancing Poetry Festival, the Livermore Ekphrastic Project, and the Davis Jazz and Beat Festival.
