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Workshop Descriptions & Instructors Marilyn Abildskov Mary Allen Kate Aspengren Thomas Fox Averill Nancy 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 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 Swander Mary Vermillion Kris Vervaecke Ashley Warlick Michelle Wildgen Bart Yates	Michael Dennis Browne What the Poem Wants: Advanced Poetry One-Week Workshop June 21–26 Biography What the Poem Wants: Advanced Poetry One-Week Workshop June 21–26 Each poem is a new occasion and wants a fresh set of responses from us. We need to be nimble, alert and improvisational in our writing, playful in our seriousness. The DNA of old poems and habits is always in us, and familiar skills can sustain us, but it’s important to leave plenty of space for the newness of really fresh expression. In this workshop, let’s explore ways of detecting what this poem, none other, is asking of us, and how we can bring all of ourselves to it. Along the way, we’ll write together daily, discuss any questions as they arise, read favorite poems to one another, sing if the spirit moves us. Biography Michael Dennis Browne (M.A., The University of Iowa) is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently Things I Can’t Tell You (Carnegie Mellon University Press). Forthcoming in 2009 are What the Poem Wants: Prose on Poetry (Carnegie Mellon), a CD of To Be Certain of the Dawn (BIS Records), a post-Holocaust oratorio with music by Stephen Paulus, and performances of the work at Iowa Wesleyan and Drake University. He has taught since 1971 at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, where he is a Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of English.

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