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Mountain Writers Workshop: Reading as a Writer: A.R. Ammons

Multnomah Friends Meeting House 4312 SE Stark Street, Portland, OR, United States

In this six-week workshop, we'll take a deep dive into the work of A.R. Ammons, one of America's most inventive and prolific poets. From short poems to book-length poems and everything in between, Ammons engages the human predicament with a rare mixture of irreverent humor and philosophical depth. We'll pay special attention to the influence of Taoist thought on Ammons' poetics. But our main concern will be with how the poems are made and how they might open new possibilities for our own work. Two of our six sessions will be devoted to participatnt poems. Our texts will be The Really Short Poems of A.R. Ammons, The Selected Poems, and Garbage. Meets: Tuesdays, 6:00 - 9:00 PM, October 29 to December 3, 2019. Cost:  $300 (Six three-hour…

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