Wed 8 Apr, 2009
Tom Daley has been a guest instructor in ekphrastic writing at Brown University and in poetry writing and performance at Stonehill College and SUNY Cobleskill. Tom has led poetry writing workshops and classes at the Writers In the Round annual retreat for songwriters and poets on Star Island (Rye, New Hampshire) and workshops in the creative process at the Nantucket Atheneum.
Tom’s poetry is forthcoming or has been published in numerous journals, including Harvard Review, Barrow Street, Prairie Schooner, Vox, Diagram, 32 Poems, Archipelago, Perihelion, Poetry Ireland Review, Southern Humanities Review and Hacks: The Grub Street Anthology. His manuscript, Shim, was a semi-finalist for the 2004 Bakeless Prize and a finalist for the 2005 Emily Dickinson First Book Prize offered by The Poetry Foundation. He graduated with highest honors in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina, where he won the Charles and Fanny Fay Wood Academy of American Poets Prize.
Joint workshop in poetry and memoir writing
Brewed Awakening (formerly Seattle’s Best Coffee)
Marrett and Waltham Streets, Lexington
Six Wednesdays 1:30-3:30 pm (for both poets and memoir writers)
Dates: April 29, May 6, 13, 20, 27, and June 3, 2009
Cost $150
To register or for more information contact Tom Daley at tom.daley2@verizon.net
Lexington Community Education: Poetry Writing Workshop
Six Wednesdays 6:15-7:45 pm
Dates: April 29, May 6, 13, 20, 27, and June 3, 2009
cost $70/ Seniors $55
Workshop held at Lexington High School 251 Waltham Street, Lexington, MA. To register call
781-862-8043 or go online http://lexingtoncommunityed.org
Online Poetry Workshop with T. Daley
Writing about work: Creating poems modeled on work poems by Yusef Komunyakaa, Louise Erdrich, Robert Frost, B.H. Fairchild, and others.Intermediate (6 weeks) starts May 12, 2009. Cost: $260. To be considered for this workshop, send 3 poems in an email to instructor (tom@onlineschoolofpoetry.org). For more info, visit website http://onlineschoolofpoetry.org/TomDaleyWorkshop.html
Need editing? Guidance regarding publishing? Writing”
Tom Daley is also available for one-on-one tutorials in writing and publishing poetry and memoir. He also offers editing services in both genres. Write him at tom.daley2@verizon.net for details.
And a testimonial from a participant in a recent workshop led by Tom Daley:
“The workshop has gotten me back on track with writing poetry and given me new confidence. Your assignments have been so interesting and provocative that they’ve put me back in the zone where I don’t question the value of writing, but just relish doing it and long for more time to do it. The background material and examples are incredibly useful and helped to tune up my ear. I was moved by getting [poems picked out for each participant from established writers] each time. That you would put in this effort made me feel worthy, and sent me reading those poems to look for connections to my own writing. That was a real gift from you. Your own critiques are thoughtful and often bring up points that others don’t see or raise. You focus a lot on the language. It’s by far the best workshop I’ve had. I appreciate the great effort you put into it.”
What more can I say? I think he’s great.
Paula S. McCarron
Over the last fifty years American poetry has experienced an exceptional renaissance, and has been infused with tremendous vitality from other lands, languages, and cultures due largely to the literary contributions, versions, and translations of poet Robert Bly. Pablo Neruda, Kabir, Rumi, Federico Garc’a Lorca, Mirabai, and Hafez, are read and loved by millions of Americans today due largely to Robert BlyÕs having read and loved them all first.