Write of Spring

High School Writer's Workshop - March 5th - 10:30am to 2:30pm

Your students will have the opportunity to:

• Celebrate their creativity
• Hone their writing skills
• Meet and talk with other writers
• Learn from award-winning authors
• Listen to the pros read from their books
• Get tips on publishing
• Prepare for college

Featured Speaker: Kay Ryan

Born in California in 1945, Kay Ryan is the author of several books of poetry, including Flamingo Watching (2006), The Niagara River (2005), and Say Uncle (2000). Her unique brand of tightly compressed brilliance has earned her the status of one of the great living American poets, and led to her appointment as U.S. Poet Laureate in 2008.

Ryan has said that her poems do not start with imagery or sound, but rather develop “the way an oyster does, with an aggravation.” Critic Meghan O’Rourke has written of her work: “Each poem twists around and back upon its argument like a river retracing its path; they are didactic in spirit, but a bedrock wit supports them.” “Sharks’ Teeth” displays that meandering approach to her subject matter, which, Ryan says, “gives my poems a coolness. I can touch things that are very hot because I’ve given them some distance.”

Maintaining a career outside the mainstream poetry circuit, Ryan teaches remedial English in California’s Marin County, where she has lived for the last 30 years. She is the recipient of several major awards, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.

Schedule of Events:

10:30-11:00: Registration in the Lecture Hall

11:00-12:15:Fiction Writing Workshop with author, Tim Tharp

12:30-1:15 Lunch in the Student Center Main Dining Room

1:30-2:30: Featured Speaker: Poet Laureate Kay Ryan in the Lecture Hall

Workskop Facilitator:

Tim Tharp, a professor at Rose State, is the author of three novels including the National Book Award Finalist, The Spectacular Now.

Registration

Registration and lunch are free, so please register early. The deadline is Feb 22nd.

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