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Max Richards wrote: > Thanks, Patrick, and Doug, for the humorous advice. > > Now, please, you-all with experience, > > How DO you run a one-off workshop? > > I need to know before this Sunday. > > Max > I have precisely one of these to my name, and I got stuck doing it 3 years ago as the "price" for being a featured reader at an art gallery in north Jersey. I had to psych myself into thinking I had something to tell anyone about anything. So what I was pointed toward were prompts and exercises devised by someone named Bernadette Meyer. I don't remember the prompt I came up with or the poems that came out of it, but it was lively and fun because *they* were doing the work and learning from each other. I was just that (puke) facilitator you've heard about. ken ------------------ Kenneth Wolman www.kenwolman.net kenwolman.wordpress.com "I agree with the Chekhov character who, when in a crisis, he is reminded that 'this, too, shall pass,' responds 'Nothing passes.'"--Philip Roth