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Winter Poetry &
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Weekend Poetry Retreat in Sea Isle City
Poetry Writing Weekend with Peter Murphy
April 25-27, 2008

Use this retreat to trigger your imagination and compose poems that combine personal experience with random elements. You can choose to workshop your new drafts in voluntary critique sessions or use that time for more writing and revising. This weekend will benefit beginning and experienced writers at all levels.

Friday

4:00 p.m Arrive & settle in
6:00 Dinner
7:30 Making Poems: A discussion

Saturday

8:00 a.m Breakfast
9:00 Writing Time
11:30 Workshop
12:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 Writing Time
4:30 Workshop
6:00 Dinner
7:30 Open Reading of previously written work

Sunday

8:00 a.m Breakfast
9:00 Writing time
11:30 Workshop
12:30 p.m. Lunch
2:00 Departure

Peter E. Murphy is the author of Stubborn Child (Jane Street Press, NY, 2005) and the
founder/director of the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway held annually in Cape May, NJ.

See Peter's biography.