[Englmajors] Poetry in Friday Harbor 2008!

[Bridget Norquist]

Dear English Majors,

Back by popular demand...the Poetry in Friday Harbor Program!

http://depts.washington.edu/engl/cw/poetryfh.php

Led by professors Richard Kenney and Cody Walker, the Poetry in Friday 
Harbor program is a seminar in the art and practice of poetry.  There 
will be lecture and discussion, reading, critique, informal chat and 
solitary time for composition. All comers welcome: no experience is 
presumed; a wide range of experience is anticipated.

Dates:  September 8 through September 19th, 2008

Location:  UW's Friday Harbor Laboratories on San Juan Island. 
Participants will be housed in student quarters at the marine station, 
and will take meals together at the dining hall.

How to Apply:  Please send a letter of inquiry and the attached 
application form to Richard Kenney (rk at u.washington.edu) AND to Cody 
Walker (codyw at u.washington.edu).  We've reserved accommodation for just 
15 students.  We expect the seminar to fill quickly!

Application deadline:  May 30, 2008.  If the program fills before this 
final deadline, a waiting list will be established.

*Cost:  $650 (includes instructional costs, housing, and 3 meals a day)

A $250, non-refundable deposit will be due upon acceptance to the 
program, with the remaining balance of $400 due no later than August 29, 
2008.

Credits:  Participants will receive five credits of English 493 
(Advanced Creative Writing Conference). Credits may be reassigned to 
cover certain prerequisite courses in the Creative Writing track.

*Course credits will be included in students' AUTUMN 08 schedules (which 
may have implications for total tuition owed, depending on how many 
total credits a student takes during Autumn Quarter).

What is poetry? What are its forms and ways and means? What are its 
affinities with other forms of knowing, such as natural science, as 
practiced famously at the marine station? What is a poet’s relation to 
the natural world? Such widely-ranging questions, and others of mutual 
interest, will be explored in an experimental spirit at the point of the 
pencil: this is intended to be a practical apprenticeship in the poet’s 
art, rather than a theoretical or critically-minded literary seminar. In 
that spirit, writing will be constant and joyful. We’ll meet twice 
daily, with open time between. Expect lectures and discussion on the 
following topics: poetry and play, poetry and comedy, poetry and the 
natural world, nursery rhymes and nonsense, tone and gesture, and the 
generative nature of poetic constraints.

For more information about Cody Walker, please visit his Poet Populist page:
http://www.poetpopulist.org/nominees_07/walker.htm

For more information about Richard Kenney, please visit the Bozoi Reader 
online: 
http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/catalog/results2.pperl?authorid=15454

-- 
Bridget Norquist
Academic Adviser
ENGLISH

ph:  206-543-2634
fax: 206-616-9318

bridget at u.washington.edu

http://depts.washington.edu/engl
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