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Workshop Descriptions & Instructors Lee K. Abbott Marilyn Abildskov Mary Allen Kate Aspengren Thomas Fox Averill Nancy Barry Timothy Bascom Kyle Beachy Linda Bendorf Venise Berry Bruce Bond Jericho Brown Michael Dennis Browne Thomas K. Dean Amber Dermont Janet Desaulniers Kelly Dwyer Hope Edelman Sarah Fay Hugh Ferrer Geoffrey Forsyth Patricia Foster Cecile Goding Douglas Goetsch Megan Gogerty Eric Goodman Vince Gotera Ann Harleman Christine Hemp Jim Heynen Rick Hillis Charles Holdefer Jeremy Jackson Richard Jackson Rebecca Johns Cheryl Fusco Johnson Wayne Johnson Daniel Khalastchi Carolyn Lieberg BK Loren Dora Malech Peter Markus Malinda McCollum Fritz Mc Donald James McKean June Melby Gordon Mennenga Sharelle Byars Moranville Michael Morse Alicia Rebecca Myers Marc Nieson Shannon Olson Lon Otto Juliet Patterson Kiki Petrosino Mark Jude Poirier Sarah Prineas Elizabeth Robinson Anjali Sachdeva Sarah Saffian Leslie Schwartz Sandra Scofield Mary Kay Shanley Carol Spindel Elizabeth Stuckey-French Ned Stuckey-French Karen Subach Mary Swander Peter Trachtenberg Nick Twemtow Anthony Varallo Mary Vermillion Kris Vervaecke Michelle Wildgen Bart Yates	The Wisdom of the Body: Poems from the Hindbrain Weekend Workshop June 26–27 Getting That Mattress through the Door: From Anecdote to Memoir One-Week Workshop June 27–July 2 Biography The Wisdom of the Body: Poems from the Hindbrain Weekend Workshop June 26–27 Poet Stanley Kunitz believed that “our most sublime thoughts have their feet planted in clay; our best songs are body-songs.” True poetry, he said, springs from the prehistoric, reptilian part of our brain where language is more akin to dance and music than what we call “writing.” Using established poets as our guides, we’ll examine the connection between the physical and the poetical, exploring the notion of “practice” and how it can influence form as well as sound and sense. If you wish to embody the very impulse of creation—from gesture to voice—this workshop is for you, experienced and novice writers alike. Getting That Mattress through the Door: From Anecdote to Memoir One-Week Workshop June 27–July 2 So you’ve written a bunch of pithy stories about your life. You may even have published a few. Your friends say, “You should turn these into a book!” You think you are on to something big, but when you try to put it all together, it’s like wrestling a mattress through a doorway. What now? This workshop is for those who wish to nudge their nonfiction toward a form in which it can thrive. Starting with the shape of an individual essay, we will expand into the structure of larger narrative, moving into the next room. For experienced and novice writers alike. Biography Christine Hemp has sent a poem of hers into space on a NASA mission to monitor the pre-natal activity of stars, she has brokered peace between cops and youth offenders in her program “Connecting Chord,” and her essays and poems have been heard on NPR’s Morning Edition. Her teaching has won her a Conway Award at Harvard University Extension. The manuscript for her memoir, “The Land of Forgetting,” was a recent finalist for the Bread Loaf Bakeless Prize, and also has earned her a Washington State Artist Trust Grant for Literature and an Iowa Review Award for Literary Nonfiction.

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