Writing Class – The Process of Observation
This short class includes a close reading of Wei Ying-Wu’s poem Heartbreak at Our Old Dwelling, translated by Red Pine (In Such Hard Times, Port …
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From Haiku to Collage: a Body-Based Poetics
I gave a Bagley Wright Lecture, From Haiku to Collage: a Body-Based Poetics in Seattle at the Hugo House. I had just hiked Dewa Sanzan …
Narrative Medicine Journals and Resources
In our low res MFA program at Dominican University we have an optional track in Narrative Medicine. This is broadly conceived as writing about health …
Marin Poetry Center Writing Retreat
Meditation on Vulnerability by Dean Rader, published in the Harvard Review My son in his sleep slipsinto the little boat of his dream the waves …
Marin Poetry Center Writing Retreat
Cretaceous Moth Trapped in Amber (Lament in Two Voices) By Katrina Vandenberg (From The Alphabet not Unlike the World, Milkweed, 2012) What a shame I have …
Marin Poetry Center Writing Retreat
May 4-11, 2020. Marin Poetry Center Shelter-in-Place Writing Retreat. Craft: How I love a letter. I especially love letters that are also poems. These are formally …
Marin Poetry Center Writing Retreat
The Pillow Book of Sei Shônagon Translated by Ivan Morris (Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1971) … I set about filling the notebooks with odd facts, stories from …
Marin Poetry Center Writing Retreat
Poem on the Occasion of a Weekly Staff Meeting By Matthew Zapruder Across the deep eternal skya thousand changing shapes flit by, i.e. clouds, or …
Marin Poetry Center Writing Retreat
A Poem for S. By Jessica Greenbaum Because you used to leaf through the dictionary,Casually, as someone might in a barber shop, andDevotedly, as someone …
Marin Poetry Center Writing Retreat
Welcome to Marin Poetry Center’s Shelter-in-Place Writing Retreat. Thanks to Rebecca Foust for inviting me to host the retreat this week and the poets who …