Spring, 2008 Workshops

Enjoy themed discussions, workshops and exercises designed to help enhance and inform the way that you look at the poetry that you read and write. Limited attendance guarantees special attention to your own particular poetry questions and interests. Daily lectures are complimented by great meals, evening poetry and musical performances, open readings, and plenty of time for personal recreation.

Session 1: April 3-6
Poetry as Resilience Taha Muhammed Ali, Peter Cole, Carolyn Forche and Marjory Wentworth (South Carolina Poet Laureate)

Session 2: April 10-13
Poetry, Silence and Gesture: Working with poetry, dance and painting with Li-Young Lee, Fran Quinn and Ann Igoe

Session 3: April 17-20
Journey from the Center to the Page with Jeff Davis and
Authentic Voice, Authentic Truth with Jen Lighty

Session 4: April 24-27
The Culture of Wildness with John deKadt, Jay Leeming, Martin Shaw, Jen Lighty and the Frantzich Brothers

Session 5: April 27-30
Poetry, Music and Memoir with Myra Shapiro and
To See the World in a Grain of Sand with Norman Minnick; music and drumming with John deKadt and the Frantzich Brothers

Session 6: May 1-4
The World as We See It with Mary Oliver, Coleman Barks, Gordon Bok, Richard Tillinghast, Valzhyna Mort, Carol Casey and more!

 

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