Category: Special Events
Posts about various literary and artistic events in the Pacific Northwest.
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My Poetry Marathon Gathers Speed! Please Help!
Wow, it doesn’t seem possible that I have reached Day 21 in my Poetry Marathon for Tupelo Press! That’s 21 poems I have written, one each day, this month. Today’s is “Crossing to Friday Harbor,” which is on the Tupelo 30/30 Blog. If you DONATE to the press (please visit the 30/30 Blog for how)…
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December Poetry Marathon!
Dear Friends: I am participating in Tupelo Press 30/30 Project! To give back during the holidays this year I am in a “marathon” for the month of December with nine other poets, writing a poem every day, and raising funds for Tupelo Press. I invite family, friends, and colleagues to sponsor me in my poetry marathon…
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Invite Poets to your Book Club w/ A Poet at Your Table
Please read Midge Raymond’s great piece about this group (which includes yours truly!) A Poet at Your Table – A Rare Opportunity for Book Groups In cooperation with Seattle Arts and Lectures Poetry Series and Crab Creek Review It’s one thing to hear a poet perform in a large auditorium … but what if you…
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The Big Poetry Giveaway 2013
To celebrate National Poetry Month, I am participating in the 2013 version of the Big Poetry Giveaway. I am offering up a free copy of my Floating Bridge Chapbook, Lamp of Letters, along with a copy of Nikky Finney’s Head Off & Split, winner of the National Book Award. All you need to do is…
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AWP Conference
Categories: Special Events
AWP to me is kind of like an annual marriage—for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, til death do us part. And the gathering of all of the writer friends in my life! Pretty much! Everybody please come to my Panel Presentation at AWP. Dancing about Architecture Writing at the Intersection of Language,…
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Speaking in Pictures: A Poetry Workshop Concerning Art Leader
One-week Residential Workshop Retreat Arrival: Saturday, 4 August 2012 Departure: Saturday, 11 August 2012 The question is not what you look at, but what you see. ·Henry Thoreau Poetry and painting are sister arts according to the Greeks. It’s a natural collaboration to focus on ekphrastic poetry. Ekphrastic poetry simply refers to our poems inspired…
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Hey Writers–Here are some great upcoming opportunities to work with poet Elizabeth Austen!
Ready to try something new? Elizabeth Austen is teaching a couple of poetry writing workshops in February: Poems from Poems: Call and Response “Good poems are the best teachers. Perhaps they are the only teachers,” writes Mary Oliver in A Poetry Handbook. This workshop explores ways to let others’ poems not only teach you, but…
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Poets on the Beach Conference, September 9-11, 2011
Hey fellow poets! Are you longing to spend some inspiring days by the ocean? In a literary-themed hotel on the coast of Oregon? Here’s your chance. “Dwell in Possibility” ~ Emily Dickinson Join Kelli Russell Agodon and Susan Rich for the first Poets on the Coast Weekend Writing Retreat September 9-11th, 2011 at the Sylvia…
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Call for Artistes!
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Reading Tomorrow at Yakima Valley Community College, 7 p.m.
Please join me for poems from Lamp of Letters, from my new manuscript, and from Saints of South Dakota & Other Poems! 7 p.m. in the Writing Center of Glenn-Anthon at YVCC. More info at this link: Reading at Yakima Valley Community College.