LiTFUSE: Poets' Workshop
September 21-23, 2012 - Tieton, WA
YES! MY MUSE CRAVES LiTFUSE!
Entire weekend, excluding Friday afternoon Master Classes:
ONLY $135 early (by August 15th), $150 regular
(includes Saturday Poets' Banquet)
To put down a $35 deposit to guarantee your place -
PLEASE CLICK HERE.
Faculty confirmed to date:
Feature: Christopher Howell - Christopher Howell’s eighth collection of poems, Light’s Ladder, won the Washington State Book Award in 2005. His poems, essays, and translations have also appeared in a number of anthologies and journals, including Antioch Review, Colorado Review, Crazy Horse, Denver Quarterly, Field, Gettysburg Review, Harper’s, Hudson Review, Iowa Review, Northwest Review, Poetry Northwest,Southern Review and Volt. He has been recipient of three Pushcart Prizes and two National Endowment fellowships, as well as a number of other awards. Christopher teaches creative writing at Eastern Washington University.
(2nd Master Class) - Peggy Shumaker - Peggy Shumaker is 2011-2012 Alaska State Writer Laureate. Her most recent book of poems is Gnawed Bones. Her lyrical memoir is Just Breathe Normally. She's at work on Genesis, Quetzal, a book of poems set in Costa Rica. Professor emerita from University of Alaska Fairbanks, Shumaker teaches in the Rainier Writing Workshop. She is founding editor of Boreal Books, publishers of fine art and literature from Alaska. She edits the Alaska Literary Series at University of Alaska Press.
James Bertolino - James Bertolino’s poetry has been appearing internationally in books, magazines and anthologies for over 40 years. His first book was published in 1968, and his most recent of 25 titles appeared in 2009. Bertolino’s poetry has been recognized nationally by the Book-of-the-Month Club Poetry Fellowship, the Discovery Award, a Hart Crane publication award, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, two Quarterly Review of Literature book awards and, in 2007, the Jeanne Lohmann Poetry Prize for Washington State Poets.
Kathleen Flenniken - Kathleen Flenniken is the new Washington State Poet Laureate. Her second poetry collection, Plume, about the Hanford Nuclear Site, was selected by Linda Bierds for the Pacific Northwest Poetry Series and will be published by University of Washington Press in Spring 2012. Her honors include fellowships from the NEA and Artist Trust, An ALA Notable Book Award (for her first collection, Famous), the Prairie Schooner Book Award for that same collection, and a 2012 Pushcart Prize. She is President of the Editorial Board at Floating Bridge Press, publisher of the annual anthology of Washington State poets.
Karen Finneyfrock – Karen Finneyfrock is a poet, novelist and teaching artist in Seattle, WA. Her second book of poems, Ceremony for the Choking Ghost, was released on Write Bloody press in 2010. Her young adult novel, Celia, the Dark and Weird, is due from Viking Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Group USA in Spring 2012. She is a Writer-in-Residence at Richard Hugo House in Seattle and teaches for Seattle Arts and Lectures’ Writers-in-the-Schools program. In 2010, Karen traveled to Nepal as a Cultural Envoy through the US Department of State to perform and teach poetry and in 2011, she did a reading tour in Germany sponsored by the US Embassy.
Dan Peters - Dan Peters teaches writing at Yakima Valley Community College. His full-length poetry collections are Down the Road the Children Go (Blue Begonia Press 2009), and The Reservoir (Blue Begonia 2002). He is also the author of a chapbook, In the Easement of Absent Ties (Blue Begonia 1998), and co-editor of the anthology, Weathered Pages: the Poetry Pole (Blue Begonia 2005). Dan lives in Selah, Washington, with his wife and two children.