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As a precaution to help limit the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) and care for our community, Just Buffalo Literary Center has postponed a number of events, and we will follow the guidance of Buffalo Public Schools in terms of Just Buffalo Writing Center programming.

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Sherry Robbins

Sherry Robbins - Writers in Education Teaching Artist - Just Buffalo Literary Center
Poet

Just Buffalo teaching artist SHERRY ROBBINS has conducted creative writing workshops throughout New York State and abroad for more than 30 years and works with hundreds of students each year. She has a Masters in the poetics of ecstasy and three books of poetry, Under World, Snapshots of Paradise and Or, the Whale. Sherry ran her own letterpress for years, is a certified yoga teacher, and a multi-year panelist for the NEA’s Art Works program.

Under World

Under World

“This remarkable work fuses a poetic sequence of private grief over the death of two siblings with an archetypal quester’s descent to–and return from–the underworld where all pilgrims must go. Sherry Robbins, like her spirit guide Emily Dickinson, speaks as both vulnerable sufferer and impersonal sibyl. So distinctive is her voice, so intense its harsh music, that we go without question where she leads and are grateful for the experience. A brave, bold, mysterious book.”

—Carl Dennis, Pulitzer Prize Winner 2002

Sherry Robbins - or, The Whale - Just Buffalo Literary Center

or, The Whale

“Into this first and oldest cradle / I invite you, reader.” from “The Fossil Whale” by Sherry Robbins. “me in in in / in the boat / of my body” from “The Chase – First Day” by Sherry Robbins. This is her book of poetry. I read her returning to this poetry. Sherry Robbins, ubiquitous saillore at voyage in the allegorical myth of and in her life, explores her journey, the wovenings of woman currents, root drinker and her map of heaven. She is her life of adored poetry and summoning her poetry is here a balance of all the corners. She discovers that water is where Sherry Robbins stands upon or, The Whale.

—Michael Basinski

Snapshots of Paradise

If Sherry Robbins’ poems, lean and fierce, are compelled by her courage, then they are propelled by her sly curiosity. Robbins’ voice is delicate in its top notes, but she uses a wilder, more basic sound, too, that can be sensed as emanating from a being “red in tooth and claw.”

— Mary Richert

Upcoming Workshops & Events

Writing Center Workshop

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Falling Down, Rising Up Taught by: Sherry Robbins, poet Where: Just Buffalo Writing Center 468 Washington Street @ Mohawk, 2nd Floor Buffalo, NY 14203 Dates: September 13 & 15, 2016 Time: 4:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m.

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Resist Much/Obey Little Book Launch and Poetry Reading

Friday, March 31, 2017

Where: The Second Reader Bookshop 1421 Hertel Ave Buffalo, NY 14216 Date: March 31, 2017 Time: 7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m.

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Betty McNulty Wilkinson ’25 Poet presents Sherry Robbins

Friday, April 21, 2017
Betty McNulty Wilkinson ’25 Poet presents Sherry Robbins

Where: Buffalo Seminary SEM Chapel 205 Bidwell Pkwy Buffalo, NY 14222 Date: April 21, 2017 Time: 2:30 p.m.

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Write Here. Write Now.

Saturday, November 3, 2018

Taught by: Sherry Robbins Where: Just Buffalo Writing Center 468 Washington Street, 2nd Floor Buffalo, NY 14203 Dates: October 20 | October 27 | November 3 Time: 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. Cost: $110 | $95 for members

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Adult Workshop – Sherry Robbins: The Yoga of Poetry

Saturday, April 27, 2019

Write Here. Write Now.
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Where:

Just Buffalo Writing Center
468 Washington Street, 2nd Floor
Buffalo, NY 14203
Date:
Saturday, April 13, 2019
Saturday, April 20, 2019
Saturday, April 27, 2019
Time: 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Price: Members $95 | General $110

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Teachers Are Writers: Writing Without The Curriculum

Thursday, May 23, 2019

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Where:
Just Buffalo Writing Center
468 Washington Street, 2nd Floor
Buffalo, NY 14203
Date: May 23, 2019
Time: 6:00-7:30 p.m.

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Tarot Writing with Sherry Robbins

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Tarot Writing with Sherry Robbins

Where:
Just Buffalo Writing Center
468 Washington Street
Buffalo, NY 14203

When:
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
@ 5:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m.

Cost:
$125 | $95 for members

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Falling Down, Rising Up: Poetry with Sherry Robbins

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Falling Down, Rising Up

Where:
Just Buffalo Writing Center
468 Washington Street
Buffalo, NY 14203

When:
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
@ 5:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m.

Cost:
$125 | $95 for members

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No other workshops or events currently scheduled. Check back soon for more details.

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Just Buffalo's Writing Center is dedicated to helping young and emerging writers ages 12–19 cultivate their writing skills.

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