Dos Gatos Press

12/29/2024

2025 WINGBEATS WORKSHOPS

January 14
Scott Wiggerman will present his adaptation of Line Dancing, Jessamyn Smith’s exercise from Wingbeats I. In-person at Albuquerque’s Books on the Bosque, 6221 Riverside Plaza Lane, 6:00 p.m. Bring pen and paper.

February 11
David Meischen will present What to Write as the Apocalypse Approaches, adapted from Wingbeats II exercises by Alan Birkelbach and Keith Ekiss. This workshop presented via Zoom.

March 11
Scott Wiggerman will present Place Picture Poems, Lee Desrosiers’ exercise from Wingbeats I. In-person at Albuquerque’s Books on the Bosque, 6221 Riverside Plaza Lane, 6:00 p.m. Bring pen and paper.

April 8
David Meischen will present The Poem as Slinky, from a Sandra Soli exercise in Wingbeats II. This workshop presented via Zoom.

May 13
Scott Wiggerman will present Birds in the Classroom, Abe Louise Young’s exercise in Wingbeats I. In-person at Albuquerque’s Books on the Bosque, 6221 Riverside Plaza Lane, 6:00 p.m. Bring pen and paper.

June 10
David Meischen will present Letter to Self, adapted from Wingbeats II exercises by Melissa Kwasny and Veronica Golos. This workshop presented via Zoom.

July 8
Scott Wiggerman will present Entering the Conversation of Poetry, Gretchen Fletcher’s exercise in Wingbeats I. In-person at Albuquerque’s Books on the Bosque, 6221 Riverside Plaza Lane, 6:00 p.m. Bring pen and paper.

August 12
David Meischen will present The Magic of Tercets, adapted from his exercise in Wingbeats II. This workshop presented via Zoom.

September 9
Scott Wiggerman will present The Bop, Afaa Michael Weaver’s exercise in Wingbeats I. In-person at Albuquerque’s Books on the Bosque, 6221 Riverside Plaza Lane, 6:00 p.m. Bring pen and paper.

October 14
David Meischen will present What’s in a Name, adapted from a Joanne Diaz workshop in Wingbeats II. This workshop presented via Zoom.

November 11
Scott Wiggerman will present Mind is Shapely, Hoa Nguyen’s exercise in Wingbeats I. In-person at Albuquerque’s Books on the Bosque, 6221 Riverside Plaza Lane, 6:00 p.m. Bring pen and paper.

December 9
David Meischen will present Borrowed Line, Transformed Language, adapted from a Wingbeats II exercise by Pablo Miguel Martínez. This workshop presented via Zoom.

12/22/2024

NEWS for 2025! Be on the lookout for a new anthology call for submissions!

07/09/2024

WINGBEATS LIVE TONIGHT @ 6:00
Each month Dos Gatos Press editors present a poetry workshop based on an exercise from their Wingbeats book series, alternating between live (odd months) and Zoom (even months). This month Scott Wiggerman will present Patricia Colleen Murphy’s "Between Sentiment & Language: Creating Tension" an exercise focused on sound--the effect of how soft sounds can be used in hate poems and harsh sounds can be used in love poems! In-person at Albuquerque’s Books on the Bosque, 6221 Riverside Plaza Lane, 6:00 p.m. Bring pen and paper.

06/05/2024

Of the ten poets highlighted for Pride Month in the The Academy of American Poets daily email, two are Dos Gatos Press Wingbeats authors, Regie Cabico and Nickole Brown. Congratulations for all the pride these poets bring to the LGBTQ+ community year-round.

And here are a whole bunch more from their poets.org website:
https://poets.org/poems?field_occasion_target_id=1806

Find the best poems by searching our collection of over 10,000 poems by classic and contemporary poets, including Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Juan Felipe Herrera, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, and more. You can even find poems by....

05/14/2024

5/14: Tonight at 6:00, a Dos Gatos Press Wingbeats poetry workshop at Books On the Bosque! Join us for an exercise in derangement!

04/27/2024

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY: the POETS' PICNIC at the OPEN SPACE VISITOR CENTER

Please join the Open Space Visitor Center as we host our annual Poet Picnic.

04/07/2024

April 14, 2024--in one week, this is happening!
"Approaches to the Prose Poem"
Using Unknotting the Line: The Poetry in Prose, this presentation looks at several ways to approach writing a prose poem, including flash fiction, flash nonfiction, haibun, tanka prose, and cheribun--as well as the specific poetic techniques that prose writers can add to their toolboxes. In-person, specifically for non-poets! 2:30 p.m., at Cherry Hills Library, 6901 Barstow St NE, Albuquerque. 505-857-8321. REGISTRATION is FREE, and is OPEN here: https://libevents.abqlibrary.org/event/12080106?hs=a .

See more details about this and other of the Public Library programs.

03/18/2024

Coming Up April 14, 2024
"Approaches to the Prose Poem"
Using Unknotting the Line: The Poetry in Prose, this presentation looks at several ways to approach writing a prose poem, including flash fiction, flash nonfiction, haibun, tanka prose, and cheribun--as well as the specific poetic techniques that prose writers can add to their toolboxes. In-person, specifically for non-poets! 2:30 p.m., at Cherry Hills Library, 6901 Barstow St NE, Albuquerque. 505-857-8321. REGISTRATION is FREE, and is NOW OPEN here: https://libevents.abqlibrary.org/event/12080106?hs=a .

See more details about this and other of the Public Library programs.

03/11/2024

Reminder: If you are working on your poetry skills, come see us Tuesday at 6pm!

01/09/2024

TONIGHT: Dos Gatos Press presents an in-person Wingbeats workshop led by Scott Wiggerman. 6:00 p.m. at Books On the Bosque!

01/04/2024

January 9, 2024
Scott Wiggerman will present his adaptation of Wordplay poems based on Marty McConnell’s “Definition by Opposition” exercise in Wingbeats II. In-person at Albuquerque’s Books On the Bosque, 6221 Riverside Plaza Lane, 6:00 p.m. Bring pen and paper for this fun and creative approach to thinking inside and outside the box(es).