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From Terry Martin's (The Secret Language of Women) upcoming schedule:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Whatcom Poetry Series: Poet As Art reading at 7:00 p.m., Friday, February 24th at the Lucia Douglas Gallery, 1415 Thirteenth Street, Fairhaven District, Bellingham
Free and open to the public, donations welcome
Poets Terry Martin of Yakima and Casey Fuller of Portland will be featured for the Poet As Art event. Fuller has received both the 2010 Jeanne Lohmann Poetry Prize and the 2011 Floating Bridge Press Poetry Chapbook Award. Martin has been nationally recognized for her teaching and received the Bumbershoot Judges’ Choice Award for a volume of poetry. Fuller has made his living as a forklift driver, and Martin is a professor at CWU.
An avid reader and writer, Terry Martin has published over 200 poems, essays, and articles and has edited both journals and anthologies. Her first book of poems, Wishboats, won the Judges’ Choice Award at Bumbershoot Book Fair in 2000. Her most recent book of poetry, The Secret Language of Women, was published by Blue Begonia Press in 2006. After teaching middle and high school English Language Arts for a number of years, Terry Martin earned an MA and PhD at the University of Oregon in Eugene. She has taught at Central Washington University since 1986, both undergraduate and graduate courses in Multicultural Literature, The Short Story, Advanced Creative Nonfiction Writing, and Poetry & Prose About Women and Nature. Martin has received numerous awards and honors. She is the recipient of CWU’s Distinguished Professor Teaching Award and Central’s Presidential Leadership Award. In 2003, she was honored as Washington Professor of the Year by the CASE/Carnegie Foundation—a national teaching award given to recognize extraordinary commitment and contribution to undergraduate education. She lives with her family in Yakima and enjoys time at their river cabin up near Chinook Pass.
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Casey Fuller has worked as an auto detailer, burrito roller, fruit vendor, office worker and, most recently, as a forklift driver in a warehouse where he wrote poems during his breaks. He was an undergraduate at Evergreen State College and received his MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University in 2008. His poems have appeared in Crab Creek Review, A River and Sound Review, Palabra, and other publications. Fuller received the Jeanne Lohmann Poetry Prize and won the Washington State-wide 2011 Floating Bridge Chapbook Award for his book, A Fort Made of Doors. He now lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife Katrina, and two cats, Monty and Garcia Lorca.
From Elizabeth Austen's (Every Dress a Decision) busy schedule of readings and classes:
Beginning next month, I’ll be teaching a master class at Richard Hugo House—
Poetry: The Practice of Revision, Wednesdays from 7 to 9p at Richard Hugo House, March 14 to May 23 (no class May 16). $360/$324 for Hugo House members.
You’ve got a first draft. Now what? How do you revise toward a richer, more compelling poem? We’ll work with a variety of craft elements including image, music and form in order to develop strong, flexible tools for revision. We’ll wrestle with the distinction between mystery and confusion, and experiment with making bolder, riskier choices. In-class exercises, take-home assignments and reading will prompt you to dismantle and re-assemble draft poems with gusto and a sense of inquiry. You’ll leave with a clearer sense of your own aesthetic and tools to sustain your development as a writer. Required books: “Next Word, Better Word,” by Stephen Dobyns and “Art & Fear,” by David Bayles and Ted Orland.
I’d be happy to tell you more about it, if you’re interested. Registration begins Feb. 21 for Hugo House members and Feb. 28 for the general public.
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Several readings coming up with friends—
February 16 at 7pm: Couth Buzzard Books at 8310 Greenwood Avenue North in Seattle. An UnValentine’s Day Reading with Donna Miscolta, author of When the De La Cruz Family Danced and Laurie Blauner, author of Instructions for Living).
February 26 at 7pm: Lopez Island Library (with Dorothy Trogdon, author of Tall Woman Looking)
A full list of upcoming readings is on my website.
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