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Workshop Descriptions & Instructors Faith Adiele Mary Allen Kate Aspengren Thomas Fox Averill Nancy Barry Timothy Bascom Linda Bendorf Venise Berry Bruce Bond Michael Dennis Browne Susan Taylor Chehak John Dalton Thomas K. Dean Amber Dermont Kelly Dwyer Hope Edelman Josh Emmons Katie Ford Patricia Foster Laura Fraser Cecile Goding Douglas Goetsch Kevin González John Griesemer Sands Hall Christine Hemp Jim Heynen Rick Hillis Charles Holdefer Richard Jackson Cheryl Fusco Johnson Wayne Johnson Bret Anthony Johnston Daniel Khalastchi Zachary Lazar Carolyn Lieberg BK Loren Fritz Mc Donald James McKean Gordon Mennenga Katherine Min Sharelle Byars Moranville Michael Morse Barbara Robinette Moss Marc Nieson Shannon Olson Lon Otto Juliet Patterson Anjali Sachdeva Sarah Saffian Sam Samuels Leslie Schwartz Sandra Scofield Mary Kay Shanley Carol Spindel Karen Subach Mary Vermillion Ashley Warlick Jan Weissmiller Bart Yates	Bruce Bond The Poem’s Process One-Week Workshop June 22–27 Biography The Poem’s Process One-Week Workshop June 22–27 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 encourage and explore the composition of new poems through a variety of exercises designed to awaken our sense of expressive possibilities and engage the world in and around us. Each day students will look at innovative lyrics from the contemporary American tradition and be given a series of assignments to choose from or combine. Some assignments will concern the poem’s technique, the body of its language, and others will be more focused on where that body takes us, how we blaze a trail in the mind. New poems will be shared each day in a productively oriented environment in hopes that discussions will send writers forward with a renewed desire to write, to face that sometimes formidable door, the empty page, and open. 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 Editions, 1997), The Anteroom of Paradise (QRL, 1991; Silverfish, 2007),and Independence Days (Woodley, 1990). His poetry has appeared in The Best American Poetry, Yale Review, The Georgia Review, The New Republic,and other journals, and he has received numerous honors, including the Texas Institute of Letters Best Book of Poetry award and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and other organizations. Presently he is Professor of English at the University of North Texas and Poetry Editor for American Literary Review.

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