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David Lehman

Inspiration:
In our workshop, we will read and write sestinas and prose poems and – on the governing assumption that inspiration is something you generate, not something you wait to be hit by – do exercises designed to help create and sustain the impulse to write poems.

Funky Forms:
In this workshop we will lead exercises in nontraditional forms, poems that are shaped by the language of product descriptions, true and false quizzes, questionnaires, and the like. She will also discuss the building of poems from found texts. This class is open to all poets wanting to stretch their notion of poem-making and channel their obsessions in a new direction. This class will be a combination of discussion, writing prompts, and workshop.

David Trinidad

Unearthing the Poem:
In this workshop we will unearth autobiographical material by utilizing Joe Brainard’s famous memory litany, “I Remember.” After reading portions of Brainard’s book-length poem, as well as other examples, participants will try their hand at the form. We will then investigate ways to generate new poems with the memories brought forth by the exercise. This workshop will appeal to poets interested in writing from personal experience and mining familiar yet unexplored terrain.

Nick Carbo

Visual and Avant-garde Poetry:
Have you ever wanted to make a poem that you could hold in your hands and launch into the wind? Have you ever wanted to add intense color and texture to your poems? Visual poems are meant to be seen as well as read. This workshop will concentrate on writing exercises that will enhance the artistic and verbal aspects of your imagination. We will make origami poems, artist's books, and 3-D poems. You will increase both your writing and visual skills in this unique and exciting workshop.

Gabriel Gudding

Impropriety and the Poem:
In our workshop we'll use a series of very weird writing techniques and mental exercises to explore what those Jungians rather melodramatically call our "shadow." From these explorations we will write poems that embrace insult, tastelessness, and impropriety in order to awaken us to the world of the sacred and begin the process of atonement for all that we have done – and not done. This sounds slightly wronghead, I know. But trust me: this should be a bizarre, and poetically quite productive, workshop. (Photo of Mr. Gudding by Leah Hansen)

May 27, 2006
Ft. Lauderdale
{EMBARKATION}
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May 28, 2006
At Sea
{Morning: FUNKY FORMS WORKSHOP WITH DENISE DUHAMEL}
{Afternoon: VISUAL AND AVANT-GARDE WORKSHOP WITH NICK CARBO}
{Evening: FACULTY READINGS}
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May 29, 2006
At Sea
{Morning: UNEARTHING THE POEM WORKSHOP WITH DAVID TRINIDAD}
{Afternoon: INSPIRATION WORKSHOP WITH DAVID LEHMAN}
{Evening: FACULTY READINGS}
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May 30, 2006
St. Thomas
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May 31, 2006
St. Maarten
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Jun 01, 2006
At Sea
{Morning: IMPROPRIETY AND THE POEM WITH GABRIEL GUDDING}
{Afternoon: OPEN MIC}
{Evening: MIPOESIAS CONTRIBUTOR READING}
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Jun 02, 2006
Princess Cays (Private Island)
{Evening: COCKTAIL PARTY}
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Jun 03, 2006
Ft. Lauderdale
{DISEMBARKATION}

Workshops will be conducted the days at sea with the exception of the last night onboard where we will have a final get together.

Interior Stateroom

Twin beds that make up into a queen-size bed. Refrigerator and TV. Spacious closet. Bath with shower. Approximately 163 square feet.
Starting From
$999.00

Oceanview Stateroom

Twin beds that make up into a queen-size bed. Picture window (categories E-G obstructed). Refrigerator and TV.
Spacious closet. Bath with shower. Approximately 158 to 182 square feet.
Starting From
$1299.00

Balcony Stateroom

Twin beds that make up into a queen-size bed. Balcony. Refrigerator and TV. Spacious closet and desk. Bath with shower.
Approximately 233 to 285 square feet, including balcony.
Starting From
$1599.00

Mini-Suite Balcony

Twin beds that make up into a queen-size bed. Separate sitting area with sofa bed and desk. Balcony. Two televisions.
Refrigerator. Walk-in closet. Bath with tub and shower. Approximately 324 square feet, including balcony.
Starting From
$1699.00

David Lehman is a poet, critic, and editor. His most recent books of poetry are When a Woman Loves a Man (Scribner, 2005) and, in collaboration with James Cummins, Jim and Dave Defeat the Masked Man (SoftSkull, 2005), a book of sestinas. He edited "Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present" (2003) and is the series editor of "The Best American Poetry," which he initiated in 1988. His nonfiction books include The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets. He teaches in the graduate writing program of the New School in New York City.

Denise Duhamel's most recent poetry titles are Two and Two (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005), Mille et un Sentiments (Firewheel, 2005) and Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (Pittsburgh, 2001). A winner of an NEA Fellowship in poetry, Duhamel is an associate professor who teaches poetry at Florida International University in Miami.

David Trinidad’s last two books, Phoebe 2002: An Essay in Verse and Plasticville, were published by Turtle Point Press. His other books include Answer Song and Hand Over Heart: Poems 1981-1988. His poems have appeared in such periodicals as The American Poetry Review, Boston Review and Harper’s, and have been included in numerous anthologies. Trinidad is Director of the Graduate Poetry Program at Columbia College Chicago, where he also teaches and co-edits the journal Court Green.

Nick Carbó is the author of three collections of poetry, the latest being Andalusian Dawn. He has edited three ground breaking anthologies of Filipino and Filipino American Writing, Returning A Borrowed Tongue, Babaylan, and Pinoy Poetics. He has won fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts and residencies to Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, VCCA, Fundacion Valparaiso (Spain), and Le Chateau de Lavigny (Switzerland). His visual poems have been exhibited in Harvard University's Infinity Visual Poetry show. He is currently teaching as the Distinguished Visiting Poet in the MFA program at the University of Miami.

Gabriel Gudding is the author of two books, A Defense of Poetry (Pitt Poetry Series,2002) and rhode island notebook (just finished and under consideration at a publisher near you), the latter being a book he wrote entirely in his car during 25 roundtrips on the highways between Providence, RI and Normal, IL. A resident of Normal, Illinois since 2002, he's an Assistant Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Illinois State University, where he was hired to teach "experimental poetry." ISU is home of American Book Review, Dalkey Archive Press, Mandorla and other spiff stuff. He is a trained mediator for the university and practices Vipassana meditation in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin. His work appears in such venues as New American Writing, LIT, Fence, American Poetry Review, Sentence, Jacket, and in such anthologies as Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present (Scribner, 2003). He has begun two creative writing programs in prisons and maintains a blog, Conchology. And oh yeah: "Gudding" rhymes with pudding.