Poets Madeline Tiger and Chuck O’Neil featured Newton - Madeline Tiger and Chuck O’Neil are the featured poets at the Betty June Silconas Poetry Center at Sussex County Community College on Saturday, June 9 from 10 a.m. to noon Tiger will present, Memoir Writing, and O’Neil’s workshop is titled, Brushstrokes. Registration begins at 9:30 a.m. The cost is $15 and includes morning coffee and bagels, and a luncheon with the poets. Both poets will read and sign books at 1 p.m. in the Sussex Bank Theater. An open reading ends the session. For more information or to register, call Priscilla Orr at 973-300-2194, or e-mail her at porr@sussex.edu. Workshop participation is limited to 12 per workshop, and acceptance is on a first come, first serve basis. To reserve a place in the workshop, send a check to Priscilla Orr, poetry coordinator, Betty June Silconas Poetry Center, One College Hill Road, Newton, NJ 07860. Make the check out to SCCC Foundation and in the memo section put BJS Poetry Center. Tiger’s workshop, Memoir Writing: Your Memory is a Rich Mine, shows poets how to search memory, find a narrative and shape it, by means of writing exercises and shared work. Tiger advocates practicing using sensory cues and other techniques that trigger recollections of a lifetime for writing now. Her most recent collection of poetry is “Birds of Sorrow and Joy: New and Selected Poems,” 1970-2000, Marsh Hawk Press, 2003. Her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies. She teaches writing and literature in schools and colleges and has been a Dodge Poet since 1986. She teaches Memoir Writing at the Montclair Adult School. New and experienced writers are welcome and encouraged to bring pens or pencils and paper and a small notebook for use as a journal. Participants may be asked about memoirs they have enjoyed reading recently, and to discuss the attraction of memoir writing. Tiger will recommend other readings, and current textbooks that explore this very popular genre. Chuck O’Neil, a resident of Milford, Pa., will conduct a workshop he calls Brushstrokes, based on Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s lines: ”And each poem a picture / at an exhibition / up on a blank wall / made of concrete chaos ....” O’Neil presents Ferlinghetti’s lines as one method of developing a poem: painting it with the colors, textures, rhythms of language. Participants will be encouraged to sketch from life, trust their own eyes, allow an image to speak for itself, and even, perhaps, to speak beyond itself, as poetry has been known to do. O’Neil’s two books of poetry are “The Perfect Scar” and “Eating Out.” He is known for chronicling the world around us in ways we recognize but otherwise might not notice. A native of Connecticut, he brings many special experiences to his art. He was editor of his college literary magazine, a commune-dweller, and a musician. He’s currently the owner of an architectural woodworking business, husband, father of four, and active in the life of his adopted community, Milford.