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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	Christine Hemp Poems: Lost And Found Weekend Workshop June 14–15 The Artful Essayist One-Week Workshop June 15–20 Assay The Essay: Critical Essay Writing For Magazines, Newspapers, And Radio One-Week Workshop June 22–27 Biography Poems: Lost And Found Weekend Workshop June 14–15 O my love, where are they, where are they going The flash of a hand, streak of movement, rustle of pebbles. I ask not out of sorrow but in wonder.—Czeslaw Milosz The things we lose often return to us in different forms. Your mother’s laugh, the vegetable garden, the way the light hits the piano in the afternoon. The past can be transformed by language—and, in turn, can transform you. Whether you’ve lost your car keys or your sense of peace in the world, this workshop will explore the notion of “found” as well as “lost.” Using work already created and poems generated during the weekend, we will also examine poetic forms and wrestle with what it means to be “found,” the joy of “finding” one’s voice. Both novice and experienced writers are invited since the workshop is designed not only to expand your facility with language, but also to stretch your ability to regain—and transfigure—what you think has disappeared. The Artful Essayist One-Week Workshop June 15–20 Often the subject of an essay is not really what it’s “about.” Like a good poem, the best essays have many layers of meaning, weaving several strands to offer the reader a new way of seeing. In this course, we will use various “ways in” to an essay—looking at paintings, listening to music, eating a meal, and observing birds. In other words, we will invite what poet Richard Hugo calls the “triggering subject,” while discovering the true “generating subject” through the writing itself. Using examples of literary non-fiction that give us a deeper experience of the world—from art reviews to personal essays—we will stir our own work toward clarity, precision, and transformation. This course is for those who wish to nudge their work towards publication. Assay The Essay: Critical Essay Writing For Magazines, Newspapers, And Radio One-Week Workshop June 22–27 Art reviews, book reviews, commentary, and editorials—all require voice, point of view, and a strong sense of purpose. An essay can carry the punch of a poem and the heft of a novel. This workshop will explore ways to make your prose unique and meaningful, no matter what the subject. Using established writers as models, we will explore the rigors of editing, the power of metaphor, and how to cultivate your own distinctive language. We will also burnish seemingly unimportant details to reveal the precious metal of your narrative. Biography Christine Hemp’s essays and poetry are heard on NPR’s Morning Edition and are published widely. One of her poems is aboard a NASA mission to monitor pre-natal stars, and her poetry program, which brokers peace between police and youth offenders, has paved new ground in Britain and the U.S. Recent awards include Harvard University Extension’s Conway Award for Teaching Writing, a Washington State Artist Trust Fellowship for Literature, the Society for Professional Journalists First Prize for Radio Commentary, and an Iowa Award for Literary Non-Fiction. She lives in Port Townsend, Washington.

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