Prince Edward County’s Arts Lab programming this autumn offers two opportunities to work with JC Sulzenko.
This month’s County Arts newsletter’s artist profile on JC Sulzenko highlights both
her October 14/15 afternoons workshop, BETWEEN BEAUTY AND LOSS, and her participation as a mentor in the inaugural Mentorship Program, with a deadline of October 11 for applications from mentees.
Here is a link to the October newsletter feature:
https://countyarts.ca/artscene/jc-sulzenko/
What’s JC’s take on these exciting programs?
“I feel privileged to have these opportunities this autumn to work with County artists.
“My approach to leading workshops and to mentoring remains consistent: I am not prescriptive. With the workshop, I seek to enable emerging and established writers and artists to enhance their capacities to express themselves through poetry. I always am eager to learn from and with them.
“The mentorship program will allow me to develop a working relationship with the mentee writer over its 5 month period in a way which addresses and advances that poet’s goals. I look very forward to this unique program.”
JC’s collaborative poem with Carol A. Stephen published in Silver Birch Press series on spices and seasonings
JC and Carol have been writing collaboratively for many years. Their first full collection, which seeks a publisher, has the working title of BREATH OF SKY AND WATER. This manuscript includes the poem “Afloat on Flan Pond,” which California-based Silver Birch Press published in its series with spices and seasonings as the theme.
To read their ekphrastic poem, after an image by Will Cotton, go to: https://silverbirchpress.wordpress.com/2023/10/03/afloat-on-flanpond-by-carol-a-stephen-and-jc-sulzenko-spices-seasonings-series/
“I enjoy writing with Carol because, for the most part, we find a way into each new poem that allows us freedom to riff off each other’s line or lines smoothly and yet to remain true to our own intention.
In BREATH OF SKY AND WATER, each poem demonstrates the power of ekphrasis, where one work of art serves as a springboard for another. In some cases, the poems we write stay close to the original artwork. In others, we stray farther afield. It’s always and adventure, ” JC adds.
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