International poet to teach workshop and give reading at CAC
Craig Czury will teach a Life Writing Workship and present a poetry reading at Chenango Arts Council on Sunday, March 10. Pictured here, Czury at the Wyalusing Creek in Pennsylvania. (Photo by Aldo Villagrossi)
NORWICH – The Chenango Arts Council will welcome internationally renowned poet Craiz Czury on Sunday, March 10, who will host a Life Writing Workshop at CAC before presenting a poetry reading.
Czury has been studying poetry and publishing books of poetry for over 40 years, as well as teaching people from all walks of life to write poetry for over three decades.
In his youth, Czury left the coal region of Pennsylvania to hitchhike across the country for 15 years. Since then, he has been the featured poet at the International Poetry Festival and has authored over 20 books of poetry.
“Poetry is not a spectator sport,” Czury said in a press release, which further states he manages to coax words out of people that come from places that only they know: their experiences, their inheritances of culture and family environment, and their own secret spaces.
“I write from my abandoned spaces, my broken windows, my dying towns, my way of knowing that something is lost,” said Czury, whose own poetry is said to be “...multi-faceted, dark and dug up from way down deep, coming as it does from his early years growing up in the declining anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania’s northeast.”
Czury’s most recent book, “Fifteen Stones,” published last year by New York Quarterly Books, is a traveling collection of prose poems written in parts in Italy, Pennsylvania, Chile and Lithuania. The poetry reading will feature selections from “Fifteen Stones,” as well as from Czury’s upcoming book, written in Albania and Lithuania.
Czury’s Life Writing Workshop will take place from 2 to 3:30 p.m. on March 10, before his poetry reading from 4 to 5 p.m. The workshop is $10 to attend and spectating the reading is $5, but the reading cost is waived for those who attend the workshop.
No prior writing experience is required to participate in the workshop, and attendees are asked to reserve their seat for the workshop, the reading, or both. To reserve your seat or for more information, contact CAC at (607) 336-2787 (ARTS). You can also find more information online at www.chenangoarts.org.
“I am excited to be coming to Norwich,” said Czury. “The support of other artists is necessary to keep the quality of your creativity up, but it’s also great when you are going through something tough, whether it’s something within you, or something out there in the world.”
Czury has been studying poetry and publishing books of poetry for over 40 years, as well as teaching people from all walks of life to write poetry for over three decades.
In his youth, Czury left the coal region of Pennsylvania to hitchhike across the country for 15 years. Since then, he has been the featured poet at the International Poetry Festival and has authored over 20 books of poetry.
“Poetry is not a spectator sport,” Czury said in a press release, which further states he manages to coax words out of people that come from places that only they know: their experiences, their inheritances of culture and family environment, and their own secret spaces.
“I write from my abandoned spaces, my broken windows, my dying towns, my way of knowing that something is lost,” said Czury, whose own poetry is said to be “...multi-faceted, dark and dug up from way down deep, coming as it does from his early years growing up in the declining anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania’s northeast.”
Czury’s most recent book, “Fifteen Stones,” published last year by New York Quarterly Books, is a traveling collection of prose poems written in parts in Italy, Pennsylvania, Chile and Lithuania. The poetry reading will feature selections from “Fifteen Stones,” as well as from Czury’s upcoming book, written in Albania and Lithuania.
Czury’s Life Writing Workshop will take place from 2 to 3:30 p.m. on March 10, before his poetry reading from 4 to 5 p.m. The workshop is $10 to attend and spectating the reading is $5, but the reading cost is waived for those who attend the workshop.
No prior writing experience is required to participate in the workshop, and attendees are asked to reserve their seat for the workshop, the reading, or both. To reserve your seat or for more information, contact CAC at (607) 336-2787 (ARTS). You can also find more information online at www.chenangoarts.org.
“I am excited to be coming to Norwich,” said Czury. “The support of other artists is necessary to keep the quality of your creativity up, but it’s also great when you are going through something tough, whether it’s something within you, or something out there in the world.”
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