REGISTRATION REQUIRED

—A 4-hour workshop with John Roche

Saturday, March 23, 2024 11 am - 3 pm $45

in-person at Jules’ Poetry Playhouse

11 Homestead Lane, Placitas, NM (directions and contact info sent upon registration)

We’ll be perusing, and responding to, some gems from John’s collection of chapbooks, mini-books, broadsides, and zines from the 2nd half of the 20th century. Works by Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, Cid Corman, Janine Pommy Vega, Ed Sanders, Margaret Randall, Larry Goodell, and more. Jules also has a few contributions!                                

In this lecture and conversation class, with time for writing responses, we will ask…….(MORE HERE)

Meet your instructor: John Roche

John Roche lives in Placitas, New Mexico, helping Jules Nyquist run Jules’ Poetry Playhouse and edit Poetry Playhouse Publications. He taught Literature and Creative Writing classes for decades at various colleges and was formerly President of Just Poets in Rochester, NY, a member of the board of BOA Editions, chief organizer of the Black Mountain North Symposium, and an instigator of the annual Cloudburst Council poets' retreat in the Finger Lakes. Along with editing the five-volume Poets Speak series and other anthologies (including Mo' Joe), his own poetry collections include On Conesus, Topicalities, Road Ghosts, The Joe Poems: The Continuing Saga of Joe the Poet, Joe Rides Again: Further Adventures of Joe the Poet, and the forthcoming Tubbables.