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Workshop Descriptions & Instructors Marilyn Abildskov Mary Allen Kate Aspengren Thomas Fox Averill Nancy K.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 Barbara Robinette Moss 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 Vermillion Kris Vervaecke Ashley Warlick Michelle Wildgen Bart Yates	Richard Jackson Generating Poems One-Week Workshop July 12–17 Biography Generating Poems One-Week Workshop July 12–17 In this workshop, we will write and complete 3-5 poems during the week. That may sound like a lot, but we have done something like it the last few summers, and it has been both fun and productive. We’ll look at a lot of poems from poets around the world and try some brief and extended exercises. I will also tailor the class to individual needs so that if you are working on haiku, or long poems, or narratives—any sort of project—we will find time to talk about it in our class. In that context, I want you to leave with some sort of project that will help you continue after our workshop. The aim here is to stimulate new and exciting ideas for your own writing. You’ll get a revised version of a CD I’ve put together with a huge anthology of poems from around the world, essays and exercises, all free as part of the course. We’ll also use a regular printed anthology of world poems. Biography Richard Jackson is the author of nine books of poems, most recently Half Lives: Petrarchan Poems, Unauthorized Autobiography: New and Selected Poems, Heartwall, and Svetovi Narazen. His poems have been translated into a dozen languages and have appeared in The Best American Poetry, among others. He has edited two anthologies of Slovene poetry: The Fire Under the Moon and Double Vision: Four Slovenian Poets and edits an eastern European chapbook series, Poetry Miscellany and mala revija. He is the author of a book of criticism, Dismantling Time in Contemporary American Poetry, and Acts of Mind: Interviews With Contemporary American Poets. His several dozen essays and reviews have appeared in The Georgia Review, Verse, Contemporary Literature, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner and numerous other journals and anthologies. In 2000 he was awarded the Order of Freedom Medal for literary and humanitarian work in the Balkans by the President of Slovenia. He teaches at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

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