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Lost Horse Press is now taking registrations
for Write On! A Creative Writing Mini-Conference
to be held on 15, 16 and 17 September 2006 at Lost Horse Press and Oden Hall (105
Lost Horse Lane & 143 Sunnyside Road, Sandpoint, Idaho). The mini-conference features
poetry & fiction writing workshops, a panel discussion, readings and book signings
by nationally renowned writers, Marvin Bell, Claire Davis and Matt Yurdana. Cost
of the 3-day Mini-conference is $200. Please register early: Workshops are limited
to 12 students each. For additional information, please contact lost horse press
at 208.255.4410, email losthorsepress@mindspring.com,
or check online at www.losthorsepress.org.
 The
Writers
Marvin Bell’s poetry has been described as “ambitious without pretension.” The
most recent of his seventeen books are the poetry collections, Rampant
and Nightworks: Poems 1962-2000. Recently retired from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop,
he leads an annual Urban Teachers Workshop for America, SCORES; collaborates
with composers, musicians, filmmakers and dancers; and teaches for the low-residency
MFA program based at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon. From 2000
to 2004, Mr. Bell served as Iowa’s first poet laureate. He lives in Iowa City,
and Port Townsend, Washington.
Claire Davis’ first novel, Winter Range (Picador USA), won the PNBA and MPBA awards for fiction in 2001. Her new novel, Skin
of the Snake, was recently released by St. Martin’s Press, and her collection of short stories, Labors
of the Heart, (St. Martin’s Press) is forthcoming in 2006. Her stories have been featured in the Pushcart Prize series, as well as Best American Short Stories. Ms. Davis teaches creative writing at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho.
Matt Yurdana has worked at a variety of jobs, including raising salmon in Alaska,
teaching literature to U.S. soldiers in South Korea, and directing A graduate
program in creative writing. Matt received his MFA in poetry from the University
of Montana, and his poems have appeared in a variety of journals, including Alaska
Quarterly Review, The Massachusetts Review, The North American Review, Poetry
Northwest, Prairie Schooner, and The Southern Review. Among his awards are a
Pushcart Prize, the Richard Hugo Memorial Scholarship and the Academy of American
Poets Award from the University of Montana, and the C. Hamilton Bailey Fellowship
from Oregon Literary Arts. His book of poems, Public Gestures, was published
this fall by the University of Tampa.
Panel Discussion How and Why: The Conference Writers Talk About How They Write and Why They Bother
The Workshops
Marvin Bell • Reinventing Free
Free verse is not a form, but a method for finding new forms. It is not an absence of meter but a different sound. Yet every free verse writer must rethink free verse. We’ll discuss participants’ poems with an eye out for possibilities, poem by poem. It’s not rocket science. It mainly takes nerve and an open door.
Claire Davis • Gravity: Just Another Word for Narrative
Tension
Claire Davis’ workshop will explore the various ways a writer creates and manages narrative tension, so that even the quiet stories will keep a reader awake.
Matt Yurdana • Considering Line & Stanza Breaks
Students will be given samples of writing that highlight the variety of approaches to lines and stanzas, given writing prompts to push them to think about lines/stanzas in new ways, and listen to and discuss the music of John Coltrane and how the structure of jazz relates to poetry. The focus, however, is still on discussing student work in a workshop setting.
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