[Englmajors] Poetry in Friday Harbor!

[Bridget Norquist]

This September, join Professor Richard Kenney and guest poet Jason 
Whitmarsh for two weeks of poetry in Friday Harbor!

This is a two-week seminar in the art and practice of poetry, to be held 
this coming September (Sept 9-18, 2010) at the University of 
Washington’s Friday Harbor Laboratories on San Juan Island. 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. Participants will be housed in 
student quarters at the marine station, and will take meals together at 
the dining hall.

How to apply:   We have reserved accommodation for just fifteen 
students. We expect the seminar to fill quickly. Make application by 
letter of inquiry, along with the application form (attached), to 
Richard Kenney (rk at uw.edu) AND to Jason Whitmarsh 
(jwhitmarsh at gmail.com). If the program fills before the final deadline, 
a waiting list will be established.

Course credits: 5 credits of ENGL 283, 383, 483, or 493 (Autumn 2010)

Cost: $1,050.  This includes instructional costs, housing, and 3 meals a 
day.  (NOTE:  This price will not include tuition. A student's Autumn 
tuition will be based upon total Autumn credits, including Friday Harbor 
credits. Evening Degree students must pay Evening Degree tuition 
directly to UW Professional and Continuing Education (formerly known as 
UW Educational Outreach), in addition to program fees paid to the 
Department of English.)  A non-refundable, $250 deposit will be due upon 
acceptance to the program, the remaining balance of $800 to be paid in 
full before Friday, August 27, 2010.

Priority Application Deadline: May 14, 2010 (Thereafter we will consider 
applications on a space-available basis.)

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.

About the instructors:

Richard Kenney is the author of four books of poetry: The Evolution of 
the Flightless Bird, Orrery, The Invention of the Zero, and The One 
Strand River. He teaches poetry and verse writing in the undergraduate 
and MFA programs at the University of Washington.

Jason Whitmarsh earned his B.A. in mathematics from the University of 
Chicago and an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Washington. His 
poems have appeared in many literary journals, including Yale Review, 
Harvard Review, Ploughshares, and Fence. His book, Tomorrow's Living 
Room, won the 2009 May Swenson Poetry Award. He lives in Seattle with 
his wife and children.

Questions?  Feel free to contact Bridget Norquist in English Advising 
(bridget at uw.edu) or the program faculty.

Webpage:  http://depts.washington.edu/engl/cw/poetryfh10.php

-- 
Bridget Norquist
Academic Adviser
ENGLISH

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

http://depts.washington.edu/engl
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