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Literary Arts at Featherstone offers spring workshops
The Featherstone campus in Oak Bluffs. Courtesy Featherstone
As spring arrives, Literary Arts at Featherstone announces its workshops for the season. From April 5 to April 9, poet Angel Nafis will be teaching her “Elegies are Odes, Odes are Elegies, Too” workshop. “This workshop will focus on the components and potential of both the ode and the elegy. How they each bend to encompass the mundane and extraordinary elements of our earth. Participants will explore both structures in each of their traditional gestures of praise and grief but too they will be asked to look at the possibilities of the ‘un-doable’ things and the ‘immortal’ things in their lives through the scrutinizing of the unconventional, the ordinary and the downright detestable. Relevant authors utilized in the workshop will include but are not limited to Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Rainer Maria Rilke, Lucille
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Much to come at Noepe
Island center for literary arts offers writing workshops in 2021.
The barn at Featherstone Center for the Arts houses Noepe Center for Literary Arts. Courtesy Featherstone
Amid closures, quarantines, and a myriad of pandemic protocols, Noepe Center for Literary Arts has soldiered on. When the time came, the Featherstone-based center seamlessly converted to a COVID-friendly online experience. Since then, Noepe has maintained its legacy of education and inspiration to the Island’s community of writers.
It may be only January, but Noepe has already announced a number of events coming in 2021. “Nothing for Granted,” a virtual poetry workshop with Shira Erlichman, runs from Feb. 15 to 19.