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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	Michael Dennis Browne Advanced Poetry: Islands In The Stream—The Art Of The Short Poem One-Week Workshop June 22–27 Biography Advanced Poetry: Islands In The Stream—The Art Of The Short Poem One-Week Workshop June 22–27 Let’s fall in love with the short poem (if we are not already there). As we workshop the poems you bring with you, we’ll also be exploring the challenges and rewards of the short poem, reading examples from many traditions, discussing ways to detect potential shorter pieces that might be found inside the drafts of unfinished (or unfinishable) longer poems and in our notebook entries. We’ll write together at each session, look at any questions as they arise, and read favorite poems of all kinds to one another. Biography Michael Dennis Browne (M.A., The University of Iowa) has published seven collections of poetry. His fourth and fifth collections won the Minnesota Book Award for poetry in 1993 and 1998. As a librettist, he has written many texts for music. To Be Certain of the Dawn, a post-Holocaust oratorio written with composer Stephen Paulus, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in music by the Minnesota Orchestra in 2006, who will record it in 2008. Browne is Distinguished Teaching Professor of English and former director of the program in creative writing at the University of Minnesota, where he has taught since 1971.

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