Instructor: Camille Martin Duration: 21 February - 27 March 2012 (6 weeks) 6-8 PM Location: Of Swallows, 283 College Street, Upper Floor Seminar Room “The sonnet . . . is not a form at all but a state of mind.” – William Carlos Williams Throughout its 800-year history, the sonnet has seen periods of vogue and dormancy, but it just keeps bouncing back, and its contemporary allure to poets shows no signs of abating. Just why did the sonnet come into being, and what accounts for its remarkable longevity? In this Sonnet Workshop, we’ll explore the enduring appeal of the sexy

Instructor: Martha Baillie Duration: (5 weeks, 10 hours) 18 January - 15 February, Wednesdays 6-8PM Location: Nalandabodhi Toronto, 174 Spadina Suite 506 “A core sample is a cylindrical section of a (usually) naturally-occuring substance consistent enough to hold a layered structure.” “Honest speech is a relief not a discovery.” (Louise Glück) In this course, following from the groundwork set in Core Sample 1, we will further explore the novel as core sample. New participants are welcome. Works by such contemporary visual artists as Rachel Whiteread, Flavio Trevisan, Be

(Note: The Wednesday evening originally listed is full -- second section added!) Duration: 10 Weeks (30 hours), FEB 9 – APR 12, 6:30-9:30 pm, (Thursday Evenings) Location: The League of Canadian Poets Offices, 192 Spadina Avenue Capacity: 6 students Instructor: Jay MillAr And you have to go into the serial poem not knowing what the hell you’re doing. That’s the first thing. You have to be tricked into it. It has to be some path that you’ve never seen on a map before. I think all of my books as far as they’re successful have just followed the bloody path to see where it goe