Writing the Life Poetic

Upcoming events with Sage this summer and fall

If you'd like to give your writing life or community a boost in the coming months, I'll be offering a number of events and publications that can help! Following is an overview of upcoming workshops, readings, articles, books and more. I'd love to see you! Here's hoping that you're having a poetic an productive summer.

Saturday, July 17, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
Big Tent Poetry Celebration Reading
St Johns Booksellers
8622 North Lombard Street
Portland, Oregon

Big Tent Poetry is an online site that provides weekly poetry writing prompts, friendly community, inspiration and fun. Come on out and celebrate poetry with Big Tent Poetry founders, contributors and participants: Tiel Aisha Ansari, Sage Cohen, Dale Favier, Deb Scott and Carolee Sherwood.

Friday, August 6, 8:30 to 10:00 a.m.
"GET A DAY JOB: Boost your income and creativity as a copywriter"
Willamette Writers Conference
The Sheraton Airport Hotel 
8235 NE Airport Way / near the Portland, OR airport

Why have an either/or approach to a writing life when one can write for love AND for money -- and when each type of writing can benefit the other? A day job that utilizes writing skills can be an ideal way to keep up your chops and fill your inspiration fuel tanks while making a respectable living.

This workshop for writers of all genres will introduce a writing for love + writing for money lifestyle mix that can help:

• Cultivate skills that benefit writing craft and business savvy.
• Equip you with publishing skills and mindset.
• Make you a great candidate for finding an agent and a publisher. 

Plus, it will offer all of the basics for how to get started as a copywriter - from finding clients to establishing a scope of practice to setting prices to building long-term relationships.

Wednesday, August 25, 7:00 p.m.
"Poetry for the People" student reading and celebration
Barnes & Noble Lloyd Center
1317 Lloyd Center
Portland, Oregon

Come on out to hear students share their poems developed in the Poetry for the People online classes since 2007.

Saturday, August 28, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.
LOCALLY GROWN POETRY featuring Sage Cohen & Judith Barrington
Hollywood Farmers Market
NE Hancock between 44th and 45th
Portland, Oregon

Listen to good words while you choose your sweet carrots, free-range eggs, luscious berries - and lettuce so beautiful it could be a bouquet.

6/26: Kirsten Rian + Sam Lohmann
7/31: John Morrison & Dave Jarecki + BT Shaw & Friend
8/28: Sage Cohen + Judith Barrington

September 2010 issue of Writer's Digest
Check out my article "How to Become A Productivity Pro"!

September-ish 2010
My new, streamlined website and teaching platform to be unveiled.

December 2010
The Productive Writer:Tips & Tools for Writing More, Stressing Less and Creating Success by Sage Cohen will be published by Writer's Digest Books.

Deadline for "The Life Poetic iPoem Contest" extended to August 8

I have extended the deadline for "The Life Poetic iPoem Contest"!

Due to some family emergencies last month, I was unable to send out contest deadline reminders, and I don't want anyone to miss the chance to submit.

NEW DEADLINE FOR "THE LIFE POETIC iPOEM CONTEST: AUGUST 8, 2010.

Your poem could be one of 365 to appear in "The Life Poetic" iPhone app! Plus,"The Life Poetic iPoem Contest" prizes include a free class, manuscript review, and many books -- with an award value of $350+.

You'll find all the details here. Be sure to review the submission guidelines before entering.

I look forward to reading your poems!

July 17, noon: Big Tent Poetry reading and celebration

I'll be hosting a Big Tent Poetry reading on Saturday, July 17 featuring a number of poets involved in Big Tent Poetry, an online site that provides weekly poetry writing prompts, friendly community, inspiration and fun. Come on out and celebrate poetry with  Big Tent Poetry founders, contributors and participants. Featured poets will include Tiel Aisha Ansari, Sage Cohen, Dale Favier, Deb Scott and Carolee Sherwood. We'd love to see you there.

Saturday, July 17, 2010

12:00pm - 1:00pm

St Johns Booksellers

8622 North Lombard Street

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Tiel Aisha Ansari is a Sufi, martial artist, and data analyst living in the Pacific Northwest. Her work has appeared in Islamica Magazine, Untitled Country Review, The Lyric, Barefoot Muse, and the VoiceCatcher anthology. Her poetry has been featured on KBOO, Prairie Home Companion and MiPoRadio and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her collection Knocking from Inside is available from Ecstatic Exchange. You can visit her online at “Knocking from Inside,” http://knockingfrominside.blogspot.com/.

Sage Cohen is the author of Writing the Life Poetic: An Invitation to Read and Write Poetry (Writers Digest Books, 2009), The Productive Writer: Tips and Tools for Writing More, Stressing Less and Creating Success (Writer’s Digest Books, forthcoming in December 2010) and the poetry collection Like the Heart, the World. Find out more at http://www.writingthelifepoetic.typepad.com/.

Dale Favier is a massage therapist and a database administrator in Portland, Oregon. His poems have appeared in Qarrtsiluni and the print anthology Brilliant Coroners. Pindrop Press will be publishing a chapbook of his poems, Opening the World this fall. Drafts of his poems and essays appear regularly, you might even say inexorably, on his personal diary, "Mole" (http://koshtra.blogspot.com/), and he writes a column, "Minding Words," for the Writing the Life Poetic Zine.

Deb Scott lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and pets. She blogs at "Stoney Moss" (http://stoneymoss.org/) and was one of the folks behind the poetry magazine and community Read Write Poem. These days she is one of the ring-leaders at Big Tent Poetry. Deb’s poetry, prose and photography are published or forthcoming in a number of journals, including Qarrtsiluni, Tiny Words and Right Hand Pointing.

Carolee Sherwood is a painter, mixed-media artist and poet from New York State. Her poetry has been published recently in Pirene’s Fountain, Awakenings Review, Scythe and Hobble Creek Review and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She was one of the folks behind the poetry magazine and community Read Write Poem and is part of the creative team that produces Big Tent Poetry. In addition, she co-edits Ouroboros Review and writes reviews for Poets’ Quarterly. Read more about Carolee at her blog, http://caroleesherwood.wordpress.com/.

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Big Tent Poetry aims to create a fun, inspiring, motivational and supportive community for poets at all levels of writing.