Centro Pokkoli is the meeting place of the Cultural Association Pokkoli & Co. in Italy dedicated to art, theater, video- making, creative writing, literary translation, and language learning. We organize courses, seminars, and individual writing retreats for our members, and occasionally work together with US and European organizations and institutions, such as the Kenyon Review, the Converse College Creative Writing Department, the Aegean Arts Circle, and others. On our web page, we promote the activities and books of our members and friends scattered around the world. We also try to bring notice of interesting books or opportunities for study abroad in any of the above fields, which come our way and which may be of interest to our members, not all of which are organized by our association.
Watch slideshow of the town where our Pokkoli Italy workshops are set. On Flickr!
NEW! Watch slideshow of places we visit during Pokkoli Italy workshop. On Flickr!
Thanks to all of you who have attended our courses or just visited our site to find out about our activities - creative writing workshops & retreats, video-making, theater workshops, art shows, glottodrama experiences, and more in Italy, Paris, and Greece. Over the last few years, our members have partnered with US and EU institutions and writing groups, teaching, hosting, and participating in writing workshops and language teaching seminars throughout Europe, including the American Library in Paris, the Aegean Arts Circle of Andros Greece, and the North American Studies program of Christian Albrects University of Kiel. No major activities are planned for summer 2018, but we hope to see you back in the fall, when we will be hosting an online Soul of Place workshop.
Writers and artists who have visited us here at Centro Pokkoli for retreats, workshops, or other events include David Lynn, Peter Selgin, Cecilia Woloch, John Domini, Jeffrey Greene, Susan Tekulve, Carolyn Florek, Pamela Leavy, Mary Jane Cryan, Gigi Pandian, Leah Cano, Miriam Polli, Randall Watson, Sandra Sims, Dhalma Llanos, Theresa Cutler Broyles, Thea K. Scott, Deborah Woodard, J.J. Townsend, Rick Mulkey, Karen Tolui, Paulette Licitra, and Sandra Binion. We would like to thank them all for contributing to a unique literary experience in our rough little corner of Italy.
As coordinator of writing workshops and retreats, Linda has interviewed A.E. Stallings, Thomas E. Kennedy, Miriam Polli, Sari Gilbert, John Domini, and Sandra Binion for this website. These interviews and her many reviews have also appeared in the Literary Review, Rain Taxi, Gently Read Literature, the Kansas City Star, Alimentum Literary Journal, Tiferet, Writers Chronicle, the Kenyon Review, and many other periodicals.
Linda Lappin's new creative writing workbook!
Still, he believed it is possible to reconnect to that power and absorb it into ourselves, if we can just find our spot on the planet. Much of Lawrence’s writing career, which he once defined as a "savage pilgrimage," was a search for the fountainhead of the life-force: Italy and New Mexico were among the places where he found it.