Some upcoming events/classes of interest:
Reading Sonnets: a seminar led by Kim Roberts, editor of Beltway Poetry Quarterly
This class will use a range of modern and contemporary sonnets written by authors from the Washington DC region as a text. We will examine the traditions of the form: rhyme, meter, subject matter—and discuss how contemporary poets have both honored and subverted those traditional expectations. Participants will be asked to read assigned poems in advance of each of the three class meetings, and be ready to join in a lively discussion on the amazing longevity and flexibility of the sonnet. Open to all: no specialized knowledge about poetry is needed.
Meets three consecutive Thursdays, October 30 through November 13 from 7:30 to 9:00 pm
$35 fee
Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church, Adult Programs, 9601 Cedar Lane, Bethesda, MD
Advance registration required: ap@cedarlane.org or (301) 493-8300
More information: http://www.cedarlane.org/images/adult_programs/AP_2014-15/AP_Brochure_Fall_2014.pdf
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The F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival in
Rockville, Oct. 16-18.
Established in 1996 to celebrate the centenary of F. Scott
Fitzgerald’s birth in the city where Fitzgerald, his wife, and his daughter are
buried, the F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival, co-sponsored by the City of
Rockville, the Share Fund, and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference,
Inc., a non-profit corporation, has for 18 years held this one-day event, which
seeks to honor the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and those of prominent American
literary artists; and to support, encourage, and assist aspiring and emerging
writers and students interested in the literary arts.
The centerpiece of the Literary Festival is the presentation of
the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Achievement in American Literature to a
prominent American writer, who is present and gives a reading and a master
class. Over the years, many of the most distinguished American literary figures
of the last half century have been honored. The 2014 recipient is James Salter.
The day’s activities include writing workshops designed for both
emerging and established fiction, poetry, and non-fiction writers held both in
the morning and the afternoon; and literary discussions, panels, and performances
designed for book lovers who are not themselves writers, also held in both the
morning and afternoon.
In 2014, the Festival will be held on October 18th in the
Auditorium of Montgomery County Executive Office Building, Rockville, MD and
the Rockville Memorial Library in partnership with the Writer’s Center in
Bethesda, Maryland, and the Friends of the Library, Montgomery County,
Maryland. It will have as its theme “Literature and War” and will include a
Literary Luncheon on Thursday afternoon, October 16th, at the Mansion at
Strathmore in Bethesda, Maryland; and, on Friday evening, October 17th, the
Writer’s Center will host “Writing the War Experience,” featuring a panel of
distinguished writer-veterans reading from and commenting on their work.
More information: http://fscottfestival.org/