PB Poetry Festival to Host Pre-Holiday Workshop for Local Poets - 12/6

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. - Nov. 29, 2014 - PRLog -- PALM BEACH POETRY FESTIVAL

Invites Public to Special Workshop

The Jewel is in the Lotus

Facilitated by Kate Ann Heidelbach, MFA

At Delray Beach Center for the Arts

Saturday, December 6 at 1 pm

(Delray Beach, FL – November 28, 2014)  The Palm Beach Poetry Festival is preparing for its 11th season with a special pre-holiday workshop for local poets: The Jewel is in the Lotus, which will be held on Saturday, December 6, at 1 pm, at the Delray Beach Center for the Arts at 51 North Swinton Avenue.

"During this workshop, participants will explore the connections between turning inward to meditate and turning inward to write. Ancient and modern poets alike have often looked to meditation as a way to calm the mind and assist with the writing process,” said Dr. Blaise Allen, the Poetry Festival’s Director of Community Outreach. “This workshop will offer a brief lecture on the historical connections between poetry and meditation, an optional non-denominational guided meditation, time to create original work in response to the lecture/practice, and the opportunity to share and discuss original work.”

Workshop facilitator Kate Ann Heidelbach, MFA is a recipient of the James A. Michener Fellowship at the University of Miami in Coral Gables. She has lectured extensively on a wide variety of writing genres for Nova Southeastern University and in Nassau, Bahamas. In addition, she is a certified Meditation Instructor with over a decade of teaching experience. Ms. Heidelbach has most enjoyed performing her work, both solo and with her band, at: AWP; Bowery Poetry Club, NYC; Churchill's, Miami; Luna Star Cafe, Miami; Fairchild Tropical Gardens, Coral Gables; The Poet’s Passage, Puerto Rico; and Myopic Books, Chicago. She is presently teaching privately and working on her first major collection of work, Starfruit.

There will be a $10 per person fee collected at the door, and participants need to be there by 1 pm.  For more details about this workshop, please visit http://palmbeachpoetryfestival.org

About the Palm Beach Poetry Festival 2015:

The 11th annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival will be held January 19-24, 2015 at the Delray Beach Center for the Arts. The Festival will once again feature about a dozen top poets -- including Dana Gioia, former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts – at numerous ticketed public events, such as readings, talks and a lively panel discussion.  In addition, workshop participants will read at several late-night open mics, free to the public. Tickets will go on sale to the public later this year through the festival website and at the Crest Theatre Box Office at the Delray Beach Center for the Arts.

The Palm Beach Poetry Festival is generously sponsored by The National Endowment for the Arts, Morgan Stanley, the Windler Group of Morgan Stanley’s Atlanta Office; the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County , the Palm Beach County Tourism Development Council and the Board of Commissioners of Palm Beach County; The Palm Beach Post; Visit Florida; WLRN; and Murder on the Beach, Delray Beach’s independent bookseller.

For more information about the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, please visit www.palmbeachpoetryfestival.org

Available for Interview:

Dr. Blaise Allen

blaise@palmbeachpoetryfestival.org

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