Paulann Petersen Downstream: Writing with the Current

Join Paulann Petersen in a writing workshop dedicated to creation of new work.  Using notable poems as springboards, we'll turn ourselves loose in the river of words, letting language carry us along in its current, generating considerable new work as we go. The goal is to have each participant leave the workshop with an outpouring of new material ready to be fashioned into poems. All levels of experience are welcome. 

Date: Saturday, June 11, 2011

Time: Meets: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.,

Cost: $60 [One-day session with an hour break for lunch]
Enrollment: Limit 15
Location: Multnomah Friends Meeting House (map) , 4315 SE Stark , Portland 97215

Register: Mountain Writers Events 

Paulann Petersen is Oregon’s current Poet Laureate. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, Petersen’s poems have appeared in many publications including Poetry, The New Republic, Prairie Schooner, and Wilderness Magazine. She is the author of four full-length collections of poems, The Wild Awake (Confluence Press, 2002); Blood Silk (Quiet Lion Press, 2004); A Bride of Narrow Escape (Cloudbank Books, 2004); and most recently The Voluptuary (Lost Horse Press, 2010), as well as four chapbooks: Under the Sign of a Neon Wolf, The Animal Bride, Fabrication, and The Hermaphrodite Flower. The recipient of Oregon Literary Arts' 2006 Holbrook Award, Paulann has taught a number of poetry workshops for colleges, libraries, and writers' conferences. She serves on the board for Friends of William Stafford, organizing the annual January William Stafford Birthday Events.