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"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering." ~ Robert Frost
-- What do Skokie, Bensenville, Rockford, Sycamore, East Troy, Forest Park, Franklin Park and Chicago Public Libraries have in common? They all hosted writing workshops led by Cynthia Gallaher. Email for more information and rates.
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-- Rescript Your Life: A Journal Writing Workshop led by Cynthia Gallaher, a five-week online course through the University of Illinois at Chicago Writers Series. Watch for the next course offering. -- In the "new" Chicago Reader, read my investigative piece w/1950s photos "The Original Pink Ladies: Grease's girl gang had a real-life model on the northwest side." Who knew Taft High School, Canale's Pizza, Parse's Red Hots and the real Pink Ladies would inspire such a musical icon?
-- From Coffee House Press Working Words: Punching the Clock and Kickin' Out the Jams literary labor anthology edited by M.L. Liebler, featuring writings by Bob Dylan, Eminem, Jack White, Carlos Cumpian, Cynthia Gallaher, and many others.
-- Attend a journal writing workshop with Cynthia Gallaher on Saturday, June 23, 2012 from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Tinley Park District Recreation Center. Register by visiting the website. Or call 708-342-4200. Fee: $30 for residents, $45 for non-residents.
-- Attend a creative writing workshop with Cynthia Gallaher on Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012 from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Tinley Park District Recreation Center. Register by visiting the website. Or call 708-342-4200. Fee: $30 for residents, $45 for non-residents.
-- Guests of the Heartland Spa in Gilman, Ill. can attend a complimentary lecture, demo and poetry reading on medicinal plants and herbs with Cynthia Gallaher on Saturday September 15, 2012. -- Cynthia Gallaher gives a lecture on "Journal Writing with a Twist" on Weds. October 17 at 6:30 p.m. at the Bloomingdale Public Library, Bloomingdale, Ill. Features journal writing tips, Japanese haibun, and PowerPoints on creating a dream journal and travel journal.
-- Attend a journal writing workshop with Cynthia Gallaher on Saturday, November 17, 2012 from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Tinley Park District Recreation Center. Register by visiting the website. Or call 708-342-4200. Fee: $30 for residents, $45 for non-residents.
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 -- "Alimentum: The Literature of Food" published my cooking lesson poem on how to cook compared with the way my son composes music.
-- Scott Foresman/Pearson educational publishers commissioned three dramas written by Cynthia Gallaher which appear in 4th, 5th and 6th grade readers.
-- Awarded in Poets & Patrons 2011 Chicagoland Poetry Contest for poems on Chicago parks and Chicago art.
-- Creative nonfiction story "108 Suitcases" appears in the 2011 Santa Fe Literary review. Read it online on page 103.
--Read poem "Fishing on Dragonfly Lake " in the EMG-Zine Dragonflies anthology.
-- "The Bumpy History of Peanut Butter" a poem that celebrates the last knife standing, appears in the current issue of Cooweescoowee Journal. |
