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Collins Poetry Residency
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Andrew Ziegler |
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The 2011 Collins
Poetry Residency
poet is Andrew
Ziegler.
Ziegler will
serve as the
resident poet at
the MWC
throughout
National Poetry
Month in April
and will
facilitate a
series of events
including area
poetry
workshops, a
community poetry
reading, and an
online poetry
journal. Through
the residency,
Ziegler will
encourage
community-based
poets who are
developing their
craft outside of
a formal
academic
setting, and to
provide a forum
to showcase
their work
through the
residency’s
online
poetry journal
and a public
reading of their
poems April 25
at 7 p.m. at the
MWC in
Davenport. |
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Ziegler said,
“Poetry is inspired by the pulse of the
human heart and is made to reflect the pulse
of the moment during which it was conceived.
Nothing is off limits in poetry because it’s
all experimentation. Poetry is simply an
essay on life.”
Over the month of April, Ziegler will engage
the community in a variety of poetry events
that will inspire others to share poetry
related to “the echo.” Ziegler will share
poems from the community in an online poetry
journal that facilitates a dialogue of poems
that speak to the larger influence of sound
in poetry and the reverberation of the echo.
More information and the call for
submissions to the online poetry journal are
available at
www.communitypoetry2012.blogspot.com.
Ziegler is a graduate of the University of
Colorado at Colorado Springs with a
bachelor’s degree in English. He is a
volunteer for the MWC, facilitates Slam
poetry competitions and poetry workshops,
and is an active participant in Out Loud and
other events. In his college experience,
Andrew served as a poetry club member who
organized and promoted workshops, slams,
readings, and road trips. As a performance
poet, he has been known to accentuate the
end of a poem with a back flip because he
believes that poetry is integral to the
celebration of life—poetry that is alive,
speaks to the human condition, and one of
the best ways to tell a story.
2012 Collins Poetry Residency Events
Performance Poetry Jam
Bettendorf Public Library
Tuesday, April 3, 6:30-8:30 pm
This performance poetry jam will focus on
the spoken word and performance in
performance poetry. Various techniques to
modulate voice to convey tone and emotion
will be explored. Verbal techniques will
include inflection, pace, volume, and
inference as derived from the sound of a
performance. Gestures and other nonverbal
presentation will also be explored. Poets
will be encouraged to simply get up and put
feeling into their words. Those interested
in the spoken word, whether it be
performance poetry, theatre, debate,
forensics, or other public speaking, are
encouraged to participate.
Performance Poetry Jam
Black Hawk College Outreach
Wednesday, April 4, 9:30-11:30 am
Performance Poetry Seminar
Bettendorf Public Library
Tuesday, April 17, 6:30-8:30 pm
This performance poetry seminar will focus
on poetry writing for performance. Although
a performance can make a poem intriguing,
all great poems start with great writing.
The writing influences the content of a
performance poem and how that content
conveys or detracts from a poem’s clarity
and impact. Sound techniques such as
assonance, alliteration, rhyme, and rhythm
will also be touched on, with the primary
focus on the concept of a poem within a
performance style.
Community Poetry Reading
Midwest Writing Center
Wednesday, April 25, 7 p.m.
All poets published in the online poetry
journal throughout the 2012 Collins Poetry
Residency are invited to participate in a
public reading of their poems. There is no
charge for this event and the public is
welcome.
Poetry Slam (venue pending)
Sunday, April 29
About the Collins Poetry Residency
The Midwest Writing Center established the
Collins Poetry Residency in honor of the
Richard Collins family and their
contributions to and encouragement of poets
and poetry in the Iowa/Illinois Quad Cities
and the Upper Mississippi River Valley. Each
year, the residency supports community-based
poetry and a regional poet who resides in
the six-county Quad City area (Rock Island,
Henry, Mercer, Scott, Clinton, Muscatine).
The Collins Poetry Residency is sponsored by
918studio. |
