WELCOME TO THE HVWC CALENDAR: home of all our upcoming readings, events and workshops. You can view by list or calendar (see right menu to choose). Click the colored tabs below to show only specific options. Our workshops run as multi-session series or one-day “intensives.” Note, we list the multi-session courses on the first day they meet only. The full dates of the session are described in the course descriptions. You would need to scroll back to the start date if you needed to enroll for something already underway. But do let us know if you want to join something in midstream since we need the blessing of the instructor. Questions? Email us.
Workshops – This category encompasses all one-day and multi-week classes, whether in person or via Zoom.
Readings – Our readings are in many different genres and take place in person, on Zoom, or both!
HVWC Recurring Events – This category encompasses such regular favorites as Open Mic, Open Write, and Submission Sunday.
Special Events – These other creative experiences are sure to interest our creative community!
Objects & Objections with Lisa Hiton (Via Zoom)
July 27 @ 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm
$150.00
Objects begin in a utilitarian fashion–as a knife spreading butter on toast, a sweatshirt worn on a cool afternoon, a hammer hanging in the garage–but grow in meaning the longer we live with them and the more closely we consider their position in our personal lives and larger cultures–if that butter knife were your grandmother’s, if that sweatshirt were the hood on the cover of Claudia Rankine’s Citizen, if that hammer made your desk. This course will explore how objects can evoke many emotions, memories, and poetic modes to bring the speaker and reader to intimate and revelatory places. Whether we are looking at an object or speaking for it, poets can bring meaning and voice to such objects that they transform from ubiquitous to mythic.
Lisa Hiton is a poet and filmmaker living in Brooklyn, NY. Her first book of poems, Afterfeast, was selected by Mary Jo Bang to win the Dorset Prize and is available from Tupelo Press. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Boston University and an MEd in Arts in Education from Harvard University. She is the author of the chapbooks The Clearing (Black Lawrence Press) and Variation on Testimony (CutBank Literary). Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in the Kenyon Review, Linebreak, New South, NPR, PEN America, and elsewhere. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Lafayette College. She is the Founder and Producer of Queer Poem-a-Day on the Deerfield Public Library Podcast.