California Federation of Chaparral Poets, Inc.
2006 Convention
Piccadilly Inn Shaw, Fresno
Winds of the Chaparral 

Saturday, April 22, 2006
8:30-9:00    
College Credit Meeting
9:00-close    

Registration
Children’s Poetry Fair
Exhibits and Displays, Book Sales
9:00-9:50    
Personal Poetics: Wind in the Sails, Deborah Edler Brown
10:00-10:50    
Personal Poetics: Song Writing Workshop, Ken Graydon
11:00-11:50    
Personal Poetics: Hand on the Rudder, Chris Nelson
12:00-1:20    
Poets' Luncheon and General Meeting
1:30-2:20    
What Does Writing a Poem Entail? Linda McCarty
2:30-3:20    
Poetics: What Works for Us, members of Letter to the World, Chaparral Youth Chapter
3:30-5:30    
Junior-Senior High School Contest Awards
How I Came to Be Junior Poet Laureate, Lindsey Smith
Reading of Poems and presentation of awards
5:30-6:00    
Young Poets Reception, students, guests, participants to meet with presenters and Al Young
5:30-7:00    
Dinner on your own
7:00-7:50    
Cowboy Poetry 101: Then and Now, Mick Vernon
8:00-8:50    
The Writer's Struggle: Crafting One's Poetry, Al Young, California Poet Laureate
9:00-close    
Bardic Circle: Read-Arounds
                                     
 The Bardic Circle is an informal group of convention attendees in which each participant in turn around the large circle reads one poem, usually of his own work. Generally, each person has the chance to read at least two and sometimes three poems during an evening. Attendance and participation is voluntary.
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