Diana Norma

“Five Variations Within a Sphere” published in Lyre Lyre. Issue Three, April 2012.
http://lyrelyre.com/issue-3/three-poetry-journal/diana-norma-szokolyai/
Check out this excellent journal, with audio poetry, and some great, new voices in poetry. I’m so happy to be included among these fine artists. Thank you Lyre Lyre editors!

In February, I also had a poem selected by Dr. Hurley’s Snake Oil Cure.  It was part of their “Valentine’s Day Potpourri” and it was Petrarchan sonnet, a form I usually do not write in.  Check out my poem “The Lady in Gustav Klimt’s Expectation.”   And while there, you can peruse some great artists and writers with their own “remedies for tedium,” as Dr. Hurley ordered.

-Diana Norma

I’ll be reading and speaking about the “craft of writing” at our Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Panel at the Mass Poetry Festival on April 21, 2012

More info: http://masspoetry2012.crowdvine.com/speakers/21834

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Cambridge Writers’ Workshop in France

Château de Sacy Retreat August 22-31, 2012

Château de Sacy is located in the region of Picardy, one hour from Paris. This ecologically sustainable and artistic haven is nestled in the small village of Sacy le Petit, which dates back to prehistoric and Roman times. Sacy was close to an ancient road called “la voie royale,” which carried pewter all the way from England to Rome. There are many local legends involving horses, curses, and secret passageways that folks still talk about in Sacy le Petit.

The present owner of the château, Hermine Demoriane, is part of the same family that has lived there for over 200 years. Her love for art and ecologically sustainable living has transformed the estate into a venue for art residencies, exhibitions and volunteer organic gardening.

If you are serious about your writing, please join us. Here are some of the experiences you may have: Imagine waking up to church bells or the dame du château ringing the bell. Fresh organic fruit and homemade yogurt await you downstairs. Sun is pouring in through the stone walls, and you can smell the raspberries in the window. During the day, you spend hours focusing on shaping your work of writing. In specialized writing workshops, you receive feedback on your writing, try experimental methods that push the boundaries of your writing, and have the opportunity to share with other experienced writers. Your free moments of the day are spent on walks through the nearby forest trails, on bike rides to pick up farm eggs, or sketching beautiful poppies in the fields. Lunch and dinner will be served at the château by wonderful cooks, and you’ll be amazed at the no-waste kitchen Madame Demoriane keeps. For nearly every meal, organic vegetables and fruits are harvested from the “potager” (kitchen garden). Your days will be filled with refreshing meals, interesting conversations, and most importantly—creative writing! Day excursions will include a literary tour of Paris and local arts events. There will also be a reading for participants of the workshop to share their work and music by classical musicians in the evening.

Guidelines | Application

Deadline: April 30, 2012 (midnight PST)

**Space is limited. Amateur writers welcome but must have a serious commitment to writing.

The Cambridge Writers’ Workshop
will be opening its studio

in Brooklyn, NY
on November 25, 2011
at 7:30 pm at the following location:

Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Studio
922 Kings Highway
Brooklyn, NY 11223

www.cambridgewritersworkshop.org

RSVP on Facebook : CWW Studio opening Facebook Event

* The CWW Brooklyn Studio is part of the 922 Studio Complex
on the second floor above Norm’s Music.

The CWW Brooklyn Studio launch will feature, champagne,
music, flash writing prompts, open mic sessions,
and electrified readings (and introductions)
from special guests and co-directors Diana Norma Szokolyai and Rita Banerjee.

A couplet of mine has appeared in Tupelo Press’s Million Line Poem ( mine is the sixteenth couplet down).
” Still, I want to be embraced by pine birth, cone-spangled,
electrified by full moonlight at the peak of a mountain.”

It’s a wonderful project with so many voices coming together.

Come join our arts collaborative to expand the boundaries of your writing process and work with musicians and dancers!

ChagallPAC@ First Church Saturday

October 8th

Concert and workshops

Soundpainting, Contact improv, cageian poetry/music

Jason Felitto Producer, composer

Diana Norma Chance Poetry writing

Silke (Netherlands) Dance, contact improv

Evan Mazunik (NYC) Soundpainting

Workshops:

2:30 contact improv dance -silke/MAZUNIK

3:30 I Ching Music Composition – Felitto

4:30 BEG/advanced soundpainting -Shafer/mazunik

5:30 “Chance” Poetry/I Ching Writing – Diana Norma

7:30 CONCERT with ChagallPAC and all participants!

Join us for a day of workshops and performance of the most exciting forms of contemporary art,

writing and composition. Special guests include dancer Silke, on tour from the Netherlands,

sharing her original dance choreography and techniques, and master Soundpainters Evan Mazunik

and Dennis Shafer teaching inter-disciplinary Soundpainting. Poet/Performer Diana Norma will

host a workshop in “chance poetry,” I Ching, and the writing process. Also ChagallPAC artist Jason

Felitto will give Cageian-style composition workshop in I Ching music. This intensive day of

workshops will leave you with your own musical/literary/dance compositions, collaborations with

others, and new methods of exploring performance art across disciplines.

To pre-register and reserve your spot for the workshop, visit

http://home.blissstreetstudios.com/about/chagallpac-workshop/

$30: all-day access (all workshops & concert, choose one or all!)

$20: all-day access (student discount)

$10: concert only

Workshops and concert will take place at:

First Church of Cambridge, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA starting at 2:30 PM