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Workshop Descriptions & Instructors Marilyn Abildskov Mary Allen Kate Aspengren Thomas Fox Averill Nancy K.Barry Timothy Bascom Kyle Beachy Karen Bender Linda Bendorf Maudy Benz Venise Berry Bruce Bond David Bouchier Michael Dennis Browne Maggie Conroy Mary Cross Thomas K. Dean Amber Dermont Janet Desaulniers Kelly Dwyer Hope Edelman Josh Emmons Jill Esbaum Sarah Fay Hugh Ferrer Katie Ford Geoffrey Forsyth Cecile Goding Douglas Goetsch Sands Hall Christine Hemp Jim Heynen Rick Hillis Charles Holdefer Richard Jackson Rebecca Johns Cheryl Fusco Johnson Wayne Johnson Daniel Khalastchi Carolyn Lieberg BK Loren Peter Markus Fritz Mc Donald James McKean Gordon Mennenga Sharelle Byars Moranville Michael Morse Barbara Robinette Moss Marc Nieson Shannon Olson Diana Ossana Lon Otto Juliet Patterson Kiki Petrosino Mark Jude Poirier Leslie Carol Roberts Anjali Sachdeva Sarah Saffian Sam Samuels Sandra Scofield Mary Kay Shanley Robert Anthony Siegel Carol Spindel Karen Subach Mary Vermillion Kris Vervaecke Ashley Warlick Michelle Wildgen Bart Yates	Bruce Bond The Poem’s Process One-Week Workshop June 21–26 Biography The Poem’s Process One-Week Workshop June 21–26 Word and world: such are the twin passions of every poet, sometimes at odds, each asking us to risk something, to broaden the horizons of the poem as we write it. This class will explore the composition of new poems through a variety of questions and challenges designed to awaken our sense of expressive range and engagement. Each day students will look for inspiration at innovative lyrics from the post-WWII American tradition, including poems by Lowell, Bishop, Plath, Hecht, Hugo, Merwin, Hass, Glück, Komunyakaa, Schnackenberg, and others. Discussions will broaden to include possibilities for our own poetry, for not only the body of its language, but also where that body takes us. New poems will be shared each day in a productively oriented environment in hopes that the class will send writers forward with a renewed desire to write, to face that sometimes formidable door, the empty page, and open. There will be also be opportunities (particularly in tutorial sessions) to discuss work that students have previously written. Biography Bruce Bond’s collections of poetry include Blind Rain (Louisiana State University, 2008); Cinder (Etruscan, 2003); The Throats of Narcissus (University of Arkansas, 2001); Radiography (BOA, 1997), winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Best Book of Poetry Award; The Anteroom of Paradise (QRL, 1991; Silverfish, 2007), winner of the Colladay Award; Independence Days (R. Gross Award, Woodley, 1990); and a forthcoming volume entitled Peal (Etruscan, 2010). His poetry has appeared in The Best American Poetry, Yale Review, The Georgia Review, Poetry, The New Republic,and many other journals, and he has received numerous honors including fellowships from the NEA and Texas Commission on the Arts. Presently he is a Regents Professor of English at the University of North Texas and Poetry Editor for American Literary Review.

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