Denton Poets' Assembly will meet at 10 a.m. on Saturday, July 20th at the Emily Fowler Public Library in Denton, Texas. 

DPA members have good reason to celebrate our success in hosting the PST Summer Conference during July 11 – 13th.

Kudos to Richard Kushmaul and the rest of the PST 50th Annual Summer Conference Committee for all the planning and execution that went into making it all happen.

Our spotlight poet is Marjorie Chesebro. Marjorie will give her reading immediately after our opening discussion.

During our Read & Response session poets will read a response to one of the July Pot Pourri poems from the packet sent out by Susan Maxwell Campbell.  She will present an activity centered on songs by Simon & Garfunkel.

Members and guests will share free choice poems following the break.

On July 10th DPA members had the pleasure of attending a Nathan Brown session. ​Finding Your Voice(s): Writing Outside Yourself  ~ A Poetry MasterClass ~ with poet/singer-songwriter Nathan Brown ​

Merging Visions News
People’s Choice Award Results are In. Congratulations to each pair of winners.
     Poet               Title of Poem             Artist                   Title of Art
 
Honeycutt, Beth  “Springtime”           Carol Rowley       Spring Flight
Betty Roberts    “Grandmother’s Porch” Olivia Walker  Girl in the Window
Jorge Robert-Saavedra  “Sunrise”    Lola Newell      Lake Murray Sunrise

We will adjourn at noon.

Time for a critique session is available from 12:00 p.m. until 1:30 p.m.

Denton Poets' Assembly meets on the third Saturday of the month, 10 a.m. - noon at the Emily Fowler Central Library, 502 Oakland Street, Denton, TX 76201. Meetings are free and open to the public. Everyone is welcome. For more information, visit http://DentonPoetsAssembly.weebly.com

We often hear the phrase “finding your voice” in writing circles. In this workshop, Nathan proposes that poets, in particular, should seek out and work with many different “voices”—tones, dialects, characters, and personas. Good poems will often employ dialogue (two, even three voices) in order to convey a more powerful message. So join us as we explore bringing into our verses the “others” who live inside, around, and with us.
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You must register to attend; only 24 places are available.
Course cost is $60. Contact Richard Kushmaul for availability.
Richardkdpa@gmail.com/
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Oklahoma Poet Laureate 2013 – 2014, Nathan Brown is an author, songwriter, and award-winning poet living in Wimberley, Texas. He holds a PhD in English and Journalism from the University of Oklahoma where he taught for seventeen years. Nathan is an accomplished poet and songwriter who has performed readings and concerts from the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association in Long Island, NY to the Sisters Folk Festival in Oregon, the Woody Guthrie Festival in Okemah, Oklahoma, and Sultan's Pool just outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem in Israel, to name a few. He's taught writing workshops from the famous Blue Rock Artist Ranch and Studio near Austin to the Everwood Farmstead in Wisconsin, and the Descanso Writers Retreats in Tuscany and Ireland. His performances of poetry have been likened to musical concerts.
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Click here for the brochure PDF file: finding_your_voices[35890]_pst_work.pdf