Antlers and Beehives: Writing in Natural Patterns w/ Alex Behr — February 21 + 28
from $100.00
Saturday February 21st and Saturday February 28th :: 10am to 12pm Pacific :: over ZOOM
Both sessions will be recorded and shared with registrants for 30 days afterwards
In this two-part zoom workshop, we’ll explore two forms described in Jane Alison’s "Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative": fractals (antlers) and networks (beehives). This encounter may cause a little brain resistance as you break down inherited rules about “proper” narrative progression. However, the outcomes might crack through writer’s block and generate access to your ephemeral somatic spirit. As Alison writes, “[Fractal and branching] patterns aren’t just around us: they inform our bodies, too. … Our brains recognize and want [these] patterns.”
My second heart, Albus
4-10-11 to 1-16-26
To be loved by a cat means to be loved wholly. And to lose that love — suddenly —creates a massive hole. 10.36 pounds holding a heartbeat and warmth. Every night, he slept as close to me as possible. I was his caretaker until the end. But he was my caretaker, regulating me and our family.
“A raw, honest portrait of love confronting mortality.”
— Mikel Fair, Dir., Film Festival Circuit
Fall Screenings
Oct 19 Turn! Turn! Turn! with Arch Cape and Mae Starr and Alex Behr — an evening of film, music and poetry
Nov 7 Up Up Books — Conversing with the Dead, Portland Book Fest’s Cover to Cover event with Jason Arias, Allisa Cherry and Alex Behr — an evening of prose, poetry and film
Nov 17, 6-7 PM, FMH 302 — PSU’s Creative Writing Department presents a screening of Grief Stick and poetry with Alex Behr and Brian Padian
