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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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

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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