[Englmajors] Poetry in Friday Harbor!

[Bridget Norquist]

Correction:  Friday Harbor Seminar dates are Sept 5-18.

Bridget Norquist wrote:

> 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 5-18, 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

> 

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Bridget Norquist
Academic Adviser
ENGLISH

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

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