Innovative Approaches to Teaching Latin American Poetry in the Classroom

Featuring:
Juan Felipe Herrera
Tomás Rivera, Endowed Chair in Creative Writing, UCR

The Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies, University of California, San Diego Invites you to the 2nd Annual Meet the Author Workshop.

Co-sponsored with the Center for Chicano/a Latino/a Arts & Humanities (CLAH)

Dreamtigers Writing Workshop:
8 Daring Poems, Poets & Teaching Powers

When: Saturday, January 29th, 2005, 8:30am-12:00pm
Where: Weaver Center, Institute of the Americas Complex, UCSD
Who: Middle School and High School Teachers
Cost: Free to all educators and librarians (RSVP Required)

Professor Jorge Mariscal, Director of CLAH will discuss Contemporary Chicano/a Literature and Culture. Juan Felipe Herrera will present the poetry of eight major Latin American poets and in some cases artist-poets (Neruda, Parra, Dalton, Vallejo, Castellanos, Borges, Agustini & Kahlo). A Dreamtiger Writing Wheel will be provided. It will contain mainstream literary devices such as syntax, metaphor and line and also point to European-Latin American writing traditions such as the Cueca and the Décima. The Writing Wheel will correspond to each poem and will be taught with hands-on innovative, visual, auditory and interactive exercises.

This workshop will benefit teachers with students that experience “writing burn,” and would rather avoid poetry, creative writing and writing in general. The session is also for teachers that want to explore new ways to teach creative writing and to dream up fresh approaches for making Latin American culture accessible and exciting. The term “Dreamtigers” is from Luis Borges’ poetry collection with the same title – a term to encourage us to prowl and leap into the powerful world of word-dream, word-imagination and new ways of seeing-writing.

Don’t miss your opportunity to meet and learn from the author of Calling the Doves, Upside Down Boy, Featherless, Laughing Out Loud I Fly, Crashboomlove, Loteria Cards, Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler, Supercilantro Girl, Coralito’s Bay/Bahia de Coralito, Featherless/Desplumado and many others!

Limited Seating - RSVP soon
RSVP required with your name, e-mail, school, subject/grade level you teach, and address to marciga@ucsd.edu

First 20 educators to RSVP receive a FREE copy of a Juan Felipe Herrera book!!

Driving Directions
Take 5 North or South to Genesee Ave. exit.
Go west on Genesse (towards the ocean).
Turn left on North Torrey Pines Rd.
Turn left at Pangea Drive. There is a parking garage on the left side. Park there.
Go straight up the road (Pangea) past first stop sign.
Take your next left (a small road/fire lane). Go to the end.
On your right you will see the Institute of the Americas Complex (Spanish tile buildings with a water fountain).
Go to the Weaver Center.
The Institute of the Americas is near RIMAC & IR/PS.
Parking is free.

Questions? Call (858) 534-6050

Sponsored in part by the U.S. Department of Education Title VI.