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Summer Book Sale + August Poetry Class

7/18/2019

BOOK SALE

Hi All, Here at Lark we are offering a summer special! All books are $10 ea or 2 for $15. Shannon Barber, Gasoline Heart; Ginger Ko, Comorbid; erica lewis, all of the real tears; So Mayer, kaolin; Raquel Salas Rivera, oropel/tinsel; Elizabeth Treadwell, Posy. For overseas shipping, please email to make arrangements, but these prices cover domestic. Please order via paypal for this special, which runs today through August 30 (please include the titles you would like and your address in your paypal note).

POETRY CLASS
Hi All, I am offering a poetry intensive in August: a collocution rather than a seminar, the class will meet online throughout the month and is intended as a support and community in which to inhabit your daily(ish) practice and by which to create (if so inclined) a short manuscript (chapbook length) or to finish a longer one. You may also take the class simply to read, write, and discuss poems, and to be part of a community.
The class includes near-daily writing prompts, feedback, and suggested readings, and is always really tremendously compelling and inspiring. We will meet via Google classroom and the class is generally asynchronous although we may have some video meetings if that works for everyone. All readings and prompts are always optional; also, these are individualized to meet participant interests.
The tuition is $200. Reviews of my classes are on this site and at ratemyprofessor.com as well. My author site is here and you are very welcome to email me with questions.
Please register via paypal for this class, which runs August 1-30 (please include your email address in your paypal note).

Thank you! Elizabeth Treadwell

Spring 2019 Classes

2/20/2019

for kids & teens

Analytic & Creative Writing Classes via Outschool.

for adults

April Poetry Collocution, more details soon.

2017 Titles & Classes

5/6/2017

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Fall 2017 Poetry Titles

Shannon Barber, Gasoline Heart
erica lewis, all of the real tears

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Fall 2017 Classes
begin after Labor Day

The Art of the Essay for ages 13 and up -- Tuesday mornings.
Creative Writing for ages 8 and up -- Thursday mornings.
Poetry Collocution -- for ages teen to adult -- online.

about the instructor, Elizabeth Treadwell
please email Elizabeth if you are interested in these classes

January 15th, 2017

1/15/2017

"you could call it ancient"

12/11/2016

"In life there is no real safety except for self-belief." -- Madonna

integrity

11/28/2016

"We should be making a determined effort to move forward in the creation of a continental culture that understands itself as a totality and a novelty whose only concern is creating forms of existence that provide everyone involved with a sense of integrity and identity." -- Vine Deloria Jr.

"'Real' poems do not 'really' require words." -- Layli Long Soldier

recess

9/17/2016

Hi Everybody,
In consideration of long-range sustainability, Lark is taking a developmental hiatus until after the new year. Please look for good news then!
We are seeding a small tween/teen class in the studio and filling book orders, albeit a bit slowly. Thank you for your patience, interest, and support.
Our 2017 list will include erica lewis' and Arielle Guy's awaited books.
See you soon and take care. Elizabeth & girls. ***

Larks at Work {Call for Work}

7/12/2016

and with a song that is delivered in flight

Hi everybody, Lark has books by Shannon Barber and Dub Leffler tentatively planned for 2017 and I am reading the first week of August when I will have some time to do so. I am hoping people will send me 5-10 pp of work* and then we can go from there. I am planning to publish about 6 Larklings, pocket temples, hand-sized perfectbounds like Ginger Ko's, Raquel Salas-Rivera's and Erica Lewis', in 2017. I am also planning for the homeschooling anthology** which will include a wide range of voices discussing the politics and practicalities of allowing children to educate themselves outside of the confines and structural inequities and falsities of our current systems. X Elizabeth Treadwell

*Please send your work as a pdf between Aug 1 & 7 to lilyfoil at yahoo dot com along with a short introduction or hello. I will reply before the end of August. Thank you!
**I will post a separate call for work for the anthology later this year.

P.S. This issue of Boog City includes an interview between Raquel, Ginger, and me.

Spring Report & Exaltation

5/8/2016

Happy Mother's Day from Lark's mama-daughters crew!

Thank you to everyone who has ordered books and attended our events and classes!

Our shop is open and Ginger's and Raquel's books are launched -- they will read together again in June -- in Atlanta.

Gemma's Chibi City class was a huge success! Check out the t-shirts they made on the last day (above ;) ).

On the press, erica lewis's book is in production and available for pre-order--check out this gorgeous excerpt.

In the studio, I am developing an Analytical & Creative Writing Workshop for Homeschooled Teens for 2016-2017, as well as a Creative Writing Workshop for ages 7 & up.

Online, I'll be facilitating Poetry Intensives for adults.

Please check back for more announcements later in the summer. Happy days to you!

Larklings in Brooklyn May 1st

4/16/2016

It's just a bit heaven on earthish to design portables for the works of these genies, Ginger, erica, & Raquel.
Launch party in Brooklyn, as part of the Boog City d.a. levy-palooza at Unnameable Books, the afternoon of May 1st.
Bonus: my interview with Ginger & Raquel for Boog City paper edition.