2020 WyoPoets Spring Workshop to be held in Gillette April 24-25
The 2020 WyoPoets Spring workshop is coming together. Please mark your calendars for April 24th and 25th of 2020. The 24th is the Chapbook Reception sponsored by Security State Bank and the 25th is WyoPoets Spring Workshop. Both events will be held in Gillette, WY at the Ramada Plaza, by Wyndham, Conference Center. The Chapbook Launch and Reception is Friday evening with the public invited. We anticipate a nice crowd for the readings. Juliet Patterson, the 2020 workshop leader, will do a 20-minute reading of her works. The Workshop is Saturday with a buffet lunch furnished to attendees. The rooms are reasonably price at about $70 plus tax and the Ramada has a hot breakfast included. The booking link for the motel is http://bit.ly/wyopoets2020 . The Ramada provides a free shuttle to and from the airport.
Registration information will be available in early 2020.
Workshop presenter: Juliet Patterson
Juliet Patterson is the Workshop Leader and will be digging into the element(s) of image and description. Juliet also has some things to share about brain science and some discoveries about how images are received in the reader’s mind. She has an incredible workshop planned for us, you wont want to miss it.
Juliet was recently named a finalist for the Audre Lorde Award in Poetry. She's the recipient of fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Minneapolis-based Institute for Community and Cultural Development. She’s the author of two full-length books, Threnody and the Lambda Award finalist The Truant Lover, both from Nightboat Books. Her poems and essays have appeared widely in numerous magazines, and she’s also published two chapbooks (one prose and one poetry): Epilogue (Spout Press) and Dirge (Albion Books). Her most recent writing project, a memoir in progress entitled Sinkhole, was a 2017 finalist for a Loft-McKnight Award. She lives in Minneapolis on the west bank of the Mississippi near the Great River Road.
— Don Oakley 2020 Workshop Chairman
Registration information will be available in early 2020.
Workshop presenter: Juliet Patterson
Juliet Patterson is the Workshop Leader and will be digging into the element(s) of image and description. Juliet also has some things to share about brain science and some discoveries about how images are received in the reader’s mind. She has an incredible workshop planned for us, you wont want to miss it.
Juliet was recently named a finalist for the Audre Lorde Award in Poetry. She's the recipient of fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Minneapolis-based Institute for Community and Cultural Development. She’s the author of two full-length books, Threnody and the Lambda Award finalist The Truant Lover, both from Nightboat Books. Her poems and essays have appeared widely in numerous magazines, and she’s also published two chapbooks (one prose and one poetry): Epilogue (Spout Press) and Dirge (Albion Books). Her most recent writing project, a memoir in progress entitled Sinkhole, was a 2017 finalist for a Loft-McKnight Award. She lives in Minneapolis on the west bank of the Mississippi near the Great River Road.
— Don Oakley 2020 Workshop Chairman
