Squaw Valley
Online
Olympic Valley, CA 96146
United States
Virtual! Registration Required.
Join Camille Dungy, Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Major Jackson, Ada Limón (The Carrying), and Matthew Zapruder for a Virtual Valley Poetry Workshop. The Poetry Program at the Community of Writers is founded on the belief that when poets gather in a community to write new poems, each poet may well break through old habits and write something stronger and truer than before.
Daily Schedule:
Due to our participant and staff living in different parts of the country, we will create a schedule which can work for all US time-zones. Each day, we meet in small sessions to read to each other the work of the previous twenty-four hours; each participant will have an opportunity to work with each staff poet during the week. We gather for a conversation about some aspect of craft each day. On several late afternoons staff poets hold brief individual conferences.
Other Opportunities:
Nature Walks –– Naturalist Will Richardson will lead informative nature walks up Shirley Canyon on a video feed. This is an opportunity to learn from a professional naturalist about the biology of the valley.
Poetry Reading –– On Thursday evening, Camille Dungy, Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Major Jackson, Ada Limón, and Matthew Zapruder will read from their published and unpublished work, including poems written just days before. This event will be open to the public, and we will be a benefit for our 2021 Scholarship Fund.
Ada Limón
Ada Limón is the twenty-fourth U.S. Poet Laureate as well as the author of The Hurting Kind and five other collections of poems.
From U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón comes The Carrying—her most powerful collection yet.