The Martha s Vineyard Times
Noepe Center for the Literary Arts announces writing workshops
Shira Erlichman Hieu Minh Nguyen
K-Ming Chang Courtesy Noepe Center for Literary Arts
Noepe Center for the Literary Arts at Featherstone recently announced its winter and spring 2021 writing workshops. The year gets started with Shira Erlichman, with her poetry workshop “Nothing for Granted.” The virtual five-day course will run from Feb. 15 to 19, 4:30 to 6 pm.
“In his brief poem ‘Watermelons,’ Charles Simic writes, ‘Green Buddhas/ On the fruit stand. / We eat the smile/ And spit out the teeth.’ And just like that, an ordinary watermelon is transformed into a Buddha; a slice into a smile; the seeds, fittingly, into teeth we’ll spit. In this workshop, we’ll follow Simic’s example by inviting the familiar to arrive with unprecedented freshness,” Erlichman writes in a press release from Noepe. “Through