{"id":13552,"date":"2022-04-02T08:45:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T12:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/?p=13552"},"modified":"2025-08-24T14:57:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T18:57:43","slug":"writing-in-animal-time-with-greg-pape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/02\/writing-in-animal-time-with-greg-pape\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing in Animal Time with Greg Pape"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ACCENTS ORIGINALS CRAFT SERIES<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Writing in Animal Time with Greg Pape<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Animals can offer the poet a means of connection to the natural world and our own deepest natures.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By imagining the lives of animals or trying to see from an animal\u2019s point of view we can gain perspective and insight into our own lives.&nbsp; Contemplation of animals\u2019 lives reinforces our sense of connection and empathy with all other creatures, including people.&nbsp; In this short course we will discuss four facets of writing in animal time: observation, recollection, meditation, and description.&nbsp; And we will read and consider several poems as examples or models for generating our own work. Electronic copy of Animal Time is included in the enrolment fee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday, 4\/14 6:00 to 7:30pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>$30.00<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Online<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To register, go to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/on.zoom.us\/e\/view\/N6iNkBwnQA-TkN0xBTVSLQ?id=N6iNkBwnQA-TkN0xBTVSLQ\">https:\/\/on.zoom.us\/e\/view\/N6iNkBwnQA-TkN0xBTVSLQ?id=N6iNkBwnQA-TkN0xBTVSLQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Greg Pape is the author of <em>Four Swans, Animal Time, American Flamingo<\/em> (Crab Orchard Open Competition Award), <em>Sunflower Facing the Sun <\/em>(Edwin Ford Piper Prize, now called the Iowa Prize), <em>Storm Pattern, Black Branches, Border Crossings <\/em>(Pitt Poetry Series), and other books.&nbsp; His work has received the Discovery\/The Nation Award, two National Endowment for the Arts Individual Fellowships, the Richard Hugo Memorial Poetry Award, the Pushcart Prize, and other awards.&nbsp; His poems have appeared in <em>The Atlantic, Colorado Review, Field, The Florida Review, Iowa Review, The Louisville Review, Miramar, The New Yorker, Poetry, and others.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACCENTS ORIGINALS CRAFT SERIES Writing in Animal Time with Greg Pape Animals can offer the poet a means of connection to the natural world and our own deepest natures.&nbsp; By imagining the lives of animals or trying to see from an animal\u2019s point of view we can gain perspective and insight into our own lives.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,571],"tags":[28,115,649],"class_list":["post-13552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-writing-opportunities","tag-accents-publishing","tag-greg-pape","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13554,"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13552\/revisions\/13554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}