Ciudad: | Lawrence |
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Teléfono: | 785.766.7159 |
Correo electrónico: | [email protected] |
Página web: | carynmirriamgoldberg.com |
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg is the 2009-2013 Poet Laureate of Kansas, and a long-time transformative language artist. As a poet, fiction and non-fiction writer, teacher, mentor, and facilitator, she explores and celebrates how the spoken, written, and sung word can help us live more meaningful and vibrant lives.
Founder of Transformative Language Arts and facilitator of extensive community workshops, she values social and personal transformation through the spoken, written, and sung word. Caryn’s 24 books include How Time Moves: New & Selected Poems; Miriam’s Well (novel); Following the Curve (poetry); Chasing Weather: Tornadoes, Tempests, and Thunderous Skies in Word and Image, with weather chaser/photographer Stephen Locke; Everyday Magic: Fieldnotes on the Mundane and Miraculous (non-fiction); Poem on the Range: A Poet Laureate’s Love Song to Kansas (memoir); Needle in the Bone: How a Holocaust Survivor and Polish Resistance Fighter Beat the Odds and Found Friendship (non-fiction); To the Stars, Through Difficulties: A Kansas Renga in 150 Voices (anthology); and The Sky Begins At Your Feet: A Memoir on Cancer, Community & Coming Home to the Body.
As a beloved workshop facilitator with extensive experience, she has led workshops for over 25 years for adults in transition, people living with physical or mental illness, intergenerational groups, the Kansas City Latino community, teens and children, and multi-cultural communities. She also offers writing and singing workshops and performances with singer-songwriter Kelley Hunt through their business, Brave Voice. Additionally, she offers The Big Picture retreat and annual class on re-imagining your life’s work with musician Kathryn Lorenzen and with the Art of Facilitation class with poet Joy Roulier Sawyer.
She is the recipient of Kansas Arts Fellowship in Poetry, the Rocky Mountain National Park artist-in-residency, the City of Lawrence Phoenix Award, and other honors. Caryn loves working with communities to help individuals and groups find and share more of their strongest stories and visions.
Caryn is a dynamic keynote speaker, reader of her poetry and prose (including improvisational poetry), speaker, and teacher. She has given several hundred readings and talks at conferences, colleges, and events, including keynote addresses on topics such as how to get started and to sustain a writing practice, writing and healing, writing as a mindfulness practice, re-envisioning and revising poetry, writing about your life and legacy, and other topics. She also has programs available based on some of her books:
Además, ofrece conferencias personalizadas para organizaciones, empresas e instituciones.
Escribiendo sobre nosotros mismos y nuestra comunidad: Un proyecto de escritura comunitaria en colaboración
Caryn ofrece proyectos colaborativos de literatura comunitaria que incluyen talleres de escritura, sesiones de revisión, consejos y enfoques para la lectura pública, y que culminan con una lectura comunitaria y/o una antología publicada.
Estos talleres pueden ser en serie (reuniones semanales durante un tiempo determinado), de fin de semana o incluso de un solo día. En todos estos casos, Caryn guía a los participantes a través de un proceso de creación de nuevos escritos, aprendiendo a aplicar técnicas de revisión sólidas para fortalecer la escritura y, a continuación, practicando cómo compartir ese trabajo con los demás o, si el trabajo se va a publicar, participando en un proceso para que el grupo edite y publique el trabajo. Estos proyectos terminan con una lectura de celebración y, si se trata de una nueva antología publicada por los participantes, con la presentación del libro.
Por el camino, los participantes escriben en comunidad para despertar la inspiración y ser testigos del proceso y las palabras de los demás mientras aprenden:
Los talleres de escritura de Caryn ayudan a personas de muchos orígenes a descubrir un mayor significado y alegría en la escritura y la comunidad. Ella ha dirigido talleres sobre muchos temas, tales como:
También ofrece talleres sobre cómo hacer transiciones en la vida, ganarse la vida con las artes (y especialmente las literarias) y utilizar las artes para crear comunidad.
Adapta los talleres a cada grupo, comunidad o evento.