M. J. Iuppa held another poetry workshop this year in honor of national poetry month. M. J. is a professor at SUNY Brockport. Over 200 of her poems have appeared in small press, university and national publications including Poetry, Yankee, Press and New Letters. She has several chapbooks including Sometimes Simply, Temptations and Greatest Hits 1986-2001, and a full-length poetry collection called Night Traveler. Presently, she is Writer-in-Residence at St. John Fisher College and also teaches creative writing and poetry workshops at Writers and Books, Young Audiences, Project U.N.I.Q.U.E., Rochester City School District, Genesee Valley BOCES, Wayne-Finger Lakes BOCES and BOCES 2. Also she has been curator of the Genesee Reading Series at Writers & Books since 1990.
The program went very well and all the writers had a lot of fun. She had many writing excercises for people to try and then many of them attendees got to read their work out loud.
If any one is also interested in Poetry we will be having our Poetry Jam on May 6, 2009 at 6 pm. SUNY Brockport students will be here reading their creative works and also people from the community are invited to read as well. If you have the creative spark please come and inspire us.
