Leanne Betasamosake Simpson upcoming lecture
It’s June and we’re days away from our MFA residency. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson will give our keynote lecture on her new and absolutely amazing book, …
June 2, 2021 | Filed under: Recommended Reading
It’s June and we’re days away from our MFA residency. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson will give our keynote lecture on her new and absolutely amazing book, …
January 7, 2021 | Filed under: Recommended Reading
After the chaos in Washington D.C. yesterday with what- an insurrection, a coup, a stand against democracy? I’ve been asked to speak today about what …
May 21, 2020 | Filed under: Low Res MFA, Narrative Medicine, Teaching
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 …
May 9, 2020 | Filed under: Marin Poetry Center Writing Retreat, Writing Prompt
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 …
May 8, 2020 | Filed under: Marin Poetry Center Writing Retreat, Writing Prompt
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 …
May 7, 2020 | Filed under: Marin Poetry Center Writing Retreat, Writing Prompt
from The Lost Letters of Frederick Douglass BY EVIE SHOCKLEY …
May 6, 2020 | Filed under: Marin Poetry Center Writing Retreat, Translation, Writing Prompt
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 …
May 5, 2020 | Filed under: Marin Poetry Center Writing Retreat, Writing Prompt
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 …
May 4, 2020 | Filed under: Teaching
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 …
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 …