BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Lewis & Clark//NONSGML v1.0//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 RDATE:20170312T100000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 RDATE:20171105T090000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171202T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171202T100000 LOCATION:Lewis &\; Clark Graduate School\, Rogers 219 SUMMARY:Daily Writing in the Spirit of William Stafford DESCRIPTION:As William Stafford once said\, "A writer is someone who writ es\," and he wrote every day for fifty years. So why not write daily? 0\; In this course\, we will feed on examples from the daily writing of William Stafford\, and practice in the spirit of his work. Our delight wi ll be in the process of creation\, and supportive response to new work in progress: creating texts the length of poems but for use in multiple gen res. The goal will be to know what it feels like—in the body and in act s of sustaining witness—to practice the continuous writing life you hav e imagined.Northwest Writing Institute (https://graduate.lclark.edu/progr ams/northwest_writing_institute/) \;(NWI) classes are offered to teac hers\, counselors\, parents\, veterans\, and all community members intere sted in the power of stories to help us understand and practice human con nections for the good of all. Past participants have said"I enjoyed havi ng the ability to just write. Prompts were given\, but with enough freedo m to allow each person to go where they needed to go.""Kim refreshed my a ccess to ideas and stimulated my desire to deepen my thoughts.""It was a joy. The prompts were a helpful framework\, the ideas lively\, and the fe edback an encouragement." Course Details &\; Registration Date and Time: Saturday-Sunday\, December 2-3\, 2017\, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Instructor: Kim Stafford\, PhD Degree-applicable credit: WCM 530\, 1 semester hour\ , $901 Non-Lewis &\; Clark students seeking degree-applicable credi t\, please contact the CCE for more information.Graduate Continuing Educa tion credit: CELA 830\, 1 semester hour\, $350 Continuing education cred it registration form (PDF) (https://graduate.lclark.edu/live/files/17702- cce-registration-form-2014-2015)Cost: $250\, includes 15 CEUs or PDUs. Le wis &\; Clark Alumni save 20%. Register now (https://mylc.lclark.edu/ graduate/cce/cce.nwi.daily-writing.12.2.17) About the InstructorKim Staf ford (https://graduate.lclark.edu/faculty/members/kim_stafford/) \;is the founding director of the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis &\; Clark College\, and the author of a dozen books of poetry and prose\, i ncluding \;100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do: How My Brother Disappeared 60\;(a memoir)\, and \;The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Oth er Pleasures of the Writer's Craft \;(a book about writing and teachi ng). He approaches writing as a chance to compose stories we have carried into poems\, essays\, radio commentaries\, blessings\, rants\, parables\ , and other forms of "tikkun olam\," the healing of the world.New worksho ps and trainings are added to our calendar regularly. For the latest on p rofessional development related to your specific interests\, sign up for our mailing list! (https://lclark.tfaforms.net/4735441) X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
As William Stafford once said\, "A writ
er is someone who writes\," and he wrote every day for fifty years.
In this course\, we wi ll feed on examples from the daily writing of William Stafford\, and prac tice in the spirit of his work. Our delight will be in the process of cre ation\, and supportive response to new work in progress: creating texts t he length of poems but for use in multiple genres. The goal will be to kn ow what it feels like—in the body and in acts of sustaining witness—t o practice the continuous writing life you have imagined.
Northw est Writing Institute \;(NWI) classes are offered to teachers\, c ounselors\, 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.
"I enjoyed having the ability to just write. Prompts were given\, but with enough freedom to allow each person to go where they needed to go."
"Kim refreshed my access to ideas and stim ulated my desire to deepen my thoughts."
"I t was a joy. The prompts were a helpful framework\, the ideas lively\, an d the feedback an encouragement."
Date and Time: Satur day-Sunday\, December 2-3\, 2017\, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Instruct or: Kim Stafford\, PhD
Degree-applicable credit: WCM 530\, 1 semester hour\, $901