Poetry Workshop To Be Held at the Eagle Theatre 2/8

The Eagle Theatre will hold a beginner-to-intermediate level poetry workshop beginning at 7:00pm on Wednesday, February 8.

The workshop will be held twice per month from February until May for a total of eight sessions, meeting on Wednesday nights at 7:00pm. During each session, participants will have the chance to receive critiques on their work from fellow members of the workshop. There will also be discussion on various elements of craft and poetic technique.

This poetry workshop will be co-directed by Dave Murphy and Scott Van Pelt. Murphy, a resident of Hammonton, has enthusiastically taught English for over 30 years. He has also participated in many poetry and prose workshops, events, and readings, including Peter Murphy’s annual Poets and Writers Getaway in Cape May, the poetry programs of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, advanced writing seminars with Pulitzer Prize winning poet Stephen Dunn and the creative writing workshops of the Artist Teacher Institute. He was also a new member of the AtlantiCare Foundation Healing Arts Committee and a docent at the Japanese House and Garden in Philadelphia. A recipient of three National Endowment for the Humanities grants, Murphy has published a “handful of articles and poems,” is working on longer prose works, and continues to teach, read, and write poetry.

Van Pelt, who currently manages the Eagle Theatre, studied creative writing and theatre at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pa. In June of 20112, he participated in the highly selective June Seminar for Younger Poets. As an undergraduate, his work was published in the Susquehanna Review. He has participated in a number of workshops and readings over the past five years.
The registration fee for participation in the workshop is $45 for all eight sessions. It is open to anyone 18 years of age or older. Interested parties are encouraged to contact the Eagle Theatre at (609) 704-5012 for more information and for registration. Enrollment in the workshop is limited to 10 individuals. www.theeagletheatre.com

The Eagle Theatre is a non-profit culturally diverse performing arts center located at 208 Vine Street in Downtown Hammonton, New Jersey. It is committed to the education and entertainment of audiences throughout the greater South Jersey and Philadelphia regions. The theatre was restored in 2009 and has since been reborn as the centerpiece of the Hammonton Art District.