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Poetry Workshop With Gerry LaFemina
July 31 through August 3, 2008
at the Gunter Hotel
in Historic Downtown Frostburg
The
first Nightsun Writers Conference is scheduled to be held at the
Gunter Hotel located in historic downtown Frostburg. The conference will
feature poet Gerry LaFemina. His workshop has been designed to provide
students with individualized attention and feedback to their work as well
as to assist students with generating new material for publication. He
says about this class: "because of its condensed nature, poetry,
like the atom, is about gravity and energy, about matter and white space.
In this workshop, students will discuss the nucleus of the lyric experience
and the potentialities of form, mode, and vision that creates the cosmos
of each individual poem."
Students also have the opportunity to meet with LaFemina for a personal
one-on-one consultation to discuss their work.
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Gerry LaFemina's most recent book
is the prose poem collection Figures from The Big Time Circus
Book/The Book of Clown Baby. His other books include The
Parakeets of Brooklyn (winner of the 2003 Bordighera Prize and
published in a bilingual edition of Italian and English), The
Window Facing Winter, Graffiti Heart (winner of the 2001 Anthony
Piccione/ Mammoth Books Poetry Prize), and Zarathustra in Love
(prose poems) among others. He is also coeditor of two anthologies:
Poetry 30: Thirty-something American Thirty-something Poets (with
Daniel Crocker) and Evensong: Contemporary American Poets of
Spirituality (with Chad Prevost) and coeditor with Dennis Hinrichsen
of Review Revue, a journal of book reviews, prosody essays
and interviews with poets. A former board member of the Association
of Writers and Writing Programs, LaFemina was nominated to receive
the Governor's Award for Arts Education in Michigan in 2001, and
the George Garret Prize for literary activism from the AWP in 2007.
The author of numerous published poems, stories and essays, LaFemina
teaches at Frostburg State University where he directs the Frostburg
Center for Creative Writing.
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