Finding Water, Holding Stone
Please join us for an evening of poetry featuring noted Pacific Northwest poets, James Bertolino and Anita K. Boyle.
Saturday, July 17th, at 7 PM
at the Rob Schouten Gallery of Whidbey's Greenbank Farm
Light refreshments will be served
Poets will be available to sign books.
Admission to this poetic evening is free and all are welcome.
James Bertolino’s poetry has appeared internationally in books, magazines and anthologies for over 40 years. Recognition for his poetry has come nationally through the Discovery Award, a Hart Crane publication award, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, two Quarterly Review of Literature book awards and, in Washington State, the Jeanne Lohmann Poetry Prize. He has published ten volumes and fifteen chapbooks of his poetry and prose. He holds an MFA from Cornell University and taught creative writing at Cornell, Washington State, University of Cincinnati and Western Washington University. He has since retired and lives on five rural acres with Anita K. Boyle near Bellingham, Washington.
Anita K. Boyle graduated from Western Washington University with a B.A. in Art (graphic design, illustration) and English (creative writing). She is a director of the Whatcom Poetry Series: The Poet As Art, and the publisher/editor of Egress Studio Press. She was a winner of the 2004 Red Sky Poetry Theatre statewide competition, and is included in the anthology Red Sky Morning. Boyle received a Willard R. Espy Literary Foundation residency in Oysterville, WA during October 2003. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications. Her chapbook, Bamboo Equals Loon, was published in 2001.
James and Anita also write collaborative poetry. Their poems are published in literary magazines, as well as the collaborative poetry anthology, Saints of Hysteria (Soft Skull Press, 2006), and in two chapbooks, Pub Proceedings and Bar Exams.
For an insightful interview with James and Anita about collaborative writing go to: http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2010/02/22/read-write-interview-james-bertolino-and-anita-boyle/
Donations will help to pay expenses of future Brave New Words events.
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The Brilliance in Your Own Words
Instructor: James Bertolino
At the South Whidbey Commons
113 McLeod Alley / 124 Second Street in Langley
Saturday, July 17, 2:30 – 4 PM
The instructor is the respected poet, James Bertolino, whose poetry has appeared internationally in books, magazines and anthologies for over 40 years. Ten volumes and fifteen chapbooks of his poetry and prose have been published. He holds an MFA from Cornell University and taught creative writing at Cornell, Washington State, University of Cincinnati and Western Washington University. He has since retired and lives on five rural acres near Bellingham, Washington.
When asked to describe his workshop, Bertolino says:
We will engage our imaginations and discover ways to find brilliance in our own words. We will use creative techniques to generate energy and excitement, as well as create poems that are both fun to write and fun to read.... You'll be surprised how random details can shape beauty and express powerful ideas and emotions. There will be an opportunity to write a poem together with two or three other writers, then revise the poem in your own way. The workshop will also introduce students to a number of marvelous poems by American poets.
The workshop is offered free to all interested teens.
For more information or directions
contact Gena at the SW Commons:
(360) 221-0127
info@bravenewwords.org
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