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Poet laureate of Richmond, California, Daniel Ari writes, publishes and performs widely. He teaches performance and generative writing at The Writing Salon in Berkeley, his Richmond home and elsewhere. Daniel produced The 2017 Richmond Anthology of Poetry, the city's first, representing its diverse voices. His own book One Way to Ask (Norfolk Press, 2016) combines original poems in a new 17-line form called queron with illustrations created and curated in collaboration with 67 artists including Roz Chast, R. Crumb, Bill Griffith and Tony Millionaire. The book won the Eric Hoffer da Vinci Eye Award for design and was a finalist for the Lascaux Poetry Prize. Daniel's writings have appeared in many publications including Poet's Market, Writer’s Digest, Defenestration, Points in Case, Thema, McSweeney's and the Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest for two years running. Daniel supports and fuels his poetic life through his career as an advertising copywriter where he has written haiku for Google. For pay.
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Upcoming Events
✍ Creative Writing Jam at my house, September 30. Contact for details and invitation.
✍ Join me for Write-a-Thon at The Writing Salon in Berkeley
3 Sundays: October 7, November 4, December 9.
Write-a-Thon is designed to get you stringing words together. Facilitator Daniel Ari offers gentle guidance and a variety of prompts and exercises. While this is not a typical "instructional" class about craft with lectures and reading samples, it is an arena for you to make discoveries about your own craft, voice and style as you experiment, take risks and play. "Sessions usually have three or four beats," says Daniel. "We start by warming up the writing mind. That's followed by writing with prompts relating to subject, style, imagery, word choice, or other variables. The ideas sparked in that round lead us into a longer arc of drafting. And sometimes, we end with a word game or surrealist score. More than anything, we'll be writing, having fun, and sharing with other writers.” Sign up now.
3 Sundays: October 7, November 4, December 9.
Write-a-Thon is designed to get you stringing words together. Facilitator Daniel Ari offers gentle guidance and a variety of prompts and exercises. While this is not a typical "instructional" class about craft with lectures and reading samples, it is an arena for you to make discoveries about your own craft, voice and style as you experiment, take risks and play. "Sessions usually have three or four beats," says Daniel. "We start by warming up the writing mind. That's followed by writing with prompts relating to subject, style, imagery, word choice, or other variables. The ideas sparked in that round lead us into a longer arc of drafting. And sometimes, we end with a word game or surrealist score. More than anything, we'll be writing, having fun, and sharing with other writers.” Sign up now.
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‘If I can hear you chew, I have fantasized about your death’
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Like trying to keep a river in a birdcage
As poet laureate of Sunhill Knolls, I offer my apology
(listen now)
Maybe Blame the Party-Planning Industry
Lithuanian Proverb
Consider the Machine
How to build a sestina template in Microsoft Excel
(listen now)
Like trying to keep a river in a birdcage
As poet laureate of Sunhill Knolls, I offer my apology
(listen now)
Maybe Blame the Party-Planning Industry
Lithuanian Proverb
Consider the Machine
How to build a sestina template in Microsoft Excel
