The NZ Poetry Society's new look monthly meetings got off to a great start last night with an open mic followed by a poetry workshop facilitated by NZPS President Lonnard Dean Watkins. This was the first of the "new look" NZPS monthly meetings. Instead of the usual open mic and feature poet these sessions have been re-purposed to provide an opportunity for poets to get feedback and workshop in a small, safe group with experienced facilitators. Something NZPS sees as missing in the Wellington poetry community.
Last night Lonnard introduced us to the Fibonacci form which to quote wikipedia is typically "a six line, 20 syllable poem with a syllable count by line of 1/1/2/3/5/8". We had a look at some examples from the Fib Review before taking it for a test drive ourselves. The results were pretty good for a first attempt and it was a really fun night.
I'm really looking forward to the next session, 7.30pm at the Thistle Inn on the 3rd Monday of the month.
Details on the NZPS website.
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