BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Lewis & Clark//NONSGML v1.0//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20140309T100000 RDATE:20140309T100000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20141102T090000 RDATE:20141102T090000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140120 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140121 LOCATION:Online SUMMARY:(NWI) Daily Writing in the Spirit of William Stafford DESCRIPTION:You don't eat just once every few days. You don't speak just every week or so. Learning is continuous\, and hunger is closer to breath ing than to an annual rite. So why not write daily? In this workshop\, we will feed on examples from the daily writing of William Stafford\, and p ractice in the spirit of his work. \; The emphasis will be on the pr ocess of creation: creating texts the length of poems but for use in mult iple genres. The goal will be to know what it feels like—in the body an d in acts of sustaining witness—to practice the continuous writing life you have imagined.Northwest Writing Institute (https://graduate.lclark.e du/programs/northwest_writing_institute/) \;(NWI) classes are offered to teachers\, counselors\, parents\, veterans\, and all community member s interested in the power of stories to help us understand and practice h uman connections for the good of all. \;Past participants are sayin g…"Excellent writing prompts and discussion.""I'll be back for more - t hanks!""Kim refreshed my access to ideas and stimulated my desire to deep en my thoughts.""It was a joy. The prompts were a helpful framework\, the ideas lively\, and the feedback an encouragement." Course Details &\ ; RegistrationDates: \;January 20-February 24\, 2014Instructor: \ ;Kim Stafford\, PhDRequired text: \;Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems\,&# 160\;William Stafford\, Graywolf Press\, Release date January 7\, 2014. W ill be available from the Lewis &\; Clark College bookstore (http://bo oks.lclark.edu/buy_courselisting.asp?).Degree-applicable credit: \;WC M 630\, LA 638\, 1 semester hour\, $704 Non-Lewis &\; Clark students seeking degree-applicable credit\, please contact the CCE for more inform ation.Continuing education credit: \;CELA 830\, 1 semester hour\, $35 0Noncredit: \;$250\, includes 15 CEUs or PDUs Registration for this course is now closed. About the InstructorKim Stafford (https://graduate .lclark.edu/faculty/members/kim_stafford/) \;is the founding director of the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis &\; ClarkCollege\, and th e author of a dozen books of poetry and prose\, including \;100 Trick s Every Boy Can Do: How My Brother Disappeared \;(a memoir)\, and 0\;The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writ er's Craft \;(a book about writing and teaching). He approaches writi ng as a chance to compose stories we have carried into poems\, essays\, r adio commentaries\, blessings\, rants\, parables\, and other forms of "ti kkun olam\," the healing of the world. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
You don't eat just once every few days. You don't speak just every week or so. Learning is continuous\, and hung er is closer to breathing than to an annual rite. So why not write daily? In this workshop\, we will feed on examples from the daily writing of Wi lliam Stafford\, and practice in the spirit of his work. \;
T he emphasis will be on the process of creation: creating texts the length of poems but for use in multiple genres. The goal will be to know what i t feels like—in the body and in acts of sustaining witness—to practic e the continuous writing life you have imagined.
Northwest Writi ng Institute \;(NWI) classes are offered to teachers\, counselors \, parents\, veterans\, and all community members interested in the power of stories to help us understand and practice human connections for the good of all.
\;Past participants are sayi ng…
"Excellent writing prompts and discus sion."
"I'll be back for more - thanks!" p>
"Kim refreshed my access to ideas and stimulated my d esire to deepen my thoughts."
"It was a joy. Th e prompts were a helpful framework\, the ideas lively\, and the feedback an encouragement."
Required text: \;Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems\, \;Willia m Stafford\, Graywolf Press\, Release date January 7\, 2014. Will be avai lable from the L ewis &\; Clark College bookstore.
Degree-applicable credit: \;WCM 630\, LA 638\, 1 semester hour\, $704
Continuing educati on credit: \;CELA 830\, 1 semester hour\, $350
Noncredit: \;$250\, includes 15 CEUs or PDUs
Regist ration for this course is now closed.