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Shirley J. Brewer
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- Baltimore, MD
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- What is your interest in the CreativesDC beta community?
- I live in Baltimore, but am interested in meeting creative individuals in DC as well, and learning about classes, exhibits, etc.
- How are you using your imagination and original ideas to enrich our economy and culture in DC, and beyond? Or, how would you like it to?
- I have a small business called Poetic License, where I create personalized poems for all special occasions. I have also developed workshops called PLORKSHOPS. (PLORK = PLAY + WORK) to help others connect with their creativity. Plork is the keystone of the creative writing program at the University of Baltimore, where I received my Master of Arts degree in Creative Writing/Publications Design in 2005.
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- SHIRLEY J. BREWER
GODDESS, POET, ENTREPRENEUR, PLORKSHOP FACILITATOR
BIO:
After a thirty-year career as a speech therapist, Shirley pursued her Creative Muse at the University of Baltimore, where she earned her Master of Arts degree in Creative Writing/Publishing Arts in May 2005. Prior to graduation, Shirley won the first University of Baltimore Creative Writing Award for Excellence in Plorking. PLORK, a combination of play and work, is the keystone of the creative writing program at UB. She worked as an adjunct professor, teaching writing to undergraduates at UB for three semesters.
Shirley started her own business, POETIC LICENSE, in which she creates original, personalized verses for all occasions.
She has developed Plorkshops, which help people embellish their life journeys, and learn how to open up to more creative paths.
Her Web site is: www.apoeticlicense.com
Her blog: www.shimmergoddess.blogspot.com
Shirley's poetry has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Pearl, Free Lunch,
The Comstock Review, HazMat Review, Calyx, Passager, the Edison Literary Review, Arnazella, Scribble, and Welter, the University of Baltimore's literary magazine. She won an Honorable Mention in Passager's Poetry Contest, and first prize in the annual contest sponsored by the Maryland Writers' Association.
Her first poetry collection, A Little Breast Music, was published in September, 2008, by Passager Books, Baltimore, Maryland.
Shirley lives in Charles Village in Baltimore. Her definition of shame is a bare wrist.
- shirleybrewer@aol.com
- Website
- http://www.apoeticlicense.com
- Address
- 2725 St. Paul Street
APT. 3
Baltimore, MD 21218
- What place/scene/event do you think DC needs to attract more creatives?
- Creative Happy Hours!
Plorkshops!!
- Who referred you? (This is how we give credit!)
- Michelle James
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