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Apr
12
Wed
An Evening of Poets and Poetry @ WCLS Blaine Library
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Apr 12 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
An Evening of Poets and Poetry @ WCLS Blaine Library | Blaine | Washington | United States

Celebrate National Poetry Month with local poetry lovers and poets including authors Carole MacRury and George McKinney. Share your own work, or recite a few new or old favorites. Listeners welcome too!

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Categories: Adult Focused Events Tags: poetry Poets
Apr
21
Sat
Read Your Greats Poetry Circle @ WCLS Deming Library
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Apr 21 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Read Your Greats Poetry Circle @ WCLS Deming Library | Everson | Washington | United States

Read the poems that have mattered the most in your life at the Deming Library Poetry Circle for National Poetry Month. Share a poem that stabs the heart, reveals truth, sings the sadness, expresses astonishment or has somehow helped you realize what is important. Read your own poem or one by a favorite author. Reading time is limited; reserve your spot at the Deming Library. Refreshments served.

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Categories: Theater Performances Tags: library literature poetry Poets
Mar
16
Sat
Beauty, Beasts, and the Banal: Poetry Workshop @ Faith Lutheran Church
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Mar 16 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Beauty, Beasts, and the Banal: Poetry Workshop @ Faith Lutheran Church

This workshop invites attendees to engage in dismantling perceptions of the unattractive, the uncelebrated, and the unremarkable to discover profound beauty. We will read poems that examine the cockroach, the vampire, the buttoning of a shirt, and the contents of a refrigerator, focusing on the ways in which their poets find reasons to celebrate each creature, action, and simple human behavior and through various writing prompts venture into creating our poems of exaltation.

Kami Westhoff is an award-winning writer, poet, and instructor of creative writing at Western Washington University. She received an MFA in Fiction from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and an MA in Creative Writing from WWU. She is the author of the short story collection, The Criteria (Unsolicited Press), and three poetry chapbooks including Cloudbound, Sleepwalker, winner of Minerva Rising’s Dare to Be Contest, and Your Body a Bullet, co-written with Elizabeth Vignali. In her writing, she amplifies silenced voices and challenges systems that protect abusers.

Note: The $30 fee is considered a donation toward the Sue C. Boynton Poetry program, under the Whatcom Poetry Series, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization and may be used as a tax deduction.

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Categories: Workshops, Classes and Lectures Tags: #communityfundraiser fundraising poetry Poets writers writing writing workshop
Mar
25
Mon
Writing Spring: A Poetry Workshop @ Virtual over Zoom
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Mar 25 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Writing Spring: A Poetry Workshop @ Virtual over Zoom

In the “Writing Spring” workshop we will align our lyrical voices with the changing season, with the time in the Northern Hemisphere when the natural world revives, and when we likewise are revitalized after the dark winter months. Our teachers in this session will be seedlings sprouting from the ground, animals re-emerging from hibernation, and the new life quickening within us. Everyone welcome!

D.J. Lee is an acclaimed writer, teacher, and regents professor in the English Department at Washington State University. She holds an MFA and a Ph.D., and her prolific writing includes more than 50 published lyric essays and prose poems, the memoir Remote: Finding Home in the Bitterroots (Oregon State University Press), and eight scholarly books. A photographer and papermaker, Lee often combines image and text.

Note: The $30 entry fee is considered a donation toward the Sue C. Boynton Poetry program, under the Whatcom Poetry Series, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization and may be used as a tax deduction.

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Categories: Workshops, Classes and Lectures Tags: #arts&culture creativity poetry Poets writers writing Writing Craft; master writing classes writing workshop
April 2017 – March 2024 Apr 2017 – Mar 2024