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Beth Tornes
Sept 26–30 and May 23–27, 2012
(Three Teaching Days) New to Dillman’s This workshop will refine your skills in writing poetry through practice, reading and discussion of poetry. Along the way, we will read and discuss poems that can serve as models for your work. Most writers are also good readers, who study the work of other writers carefully and with an eye to craft. We'll generate new poems throughout the workshop by doing poetry exercises. We'll also give feedback on each others' poems, and talk about revising and publishing. We will read handouts of work by a wide range of poets: Mary Oliver, Billy Collins, William Carlos Williams, Mark Strand, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop, Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery, Robert Frost, Theodore, Roethke, James Wright and others. "To be a poet you must live with an intensity five times, nay a hundred times more furiously than that of those about you. There is no scene, no experience which should not contribute to your poetic appreciations and culture." --Llewelyn Powys, Advice to a Young Poet Elizabeth Tornes has published a poetry chapbook, Snowbound, and her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Antioch Review, The Anatomy of Water, bornmagazine.com, Contemporary American Prose Poetry, Boulevard, Durak, Field, Missouri Review, New Models of the Universe, The New Republic, Ploughshares, Southern Review, Western Humanities Review, and the Wisconsin Poets' Calendar. She has also published a book of Ojibwe oral histories, Memories of Lac du Flambeau Elders (University of Wisconsin Press, 2004). Her poems have won many prizes and awards, including the Academy of American Poets Prize, and she has been awarded fellowships at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and Squaw Valley. She has taught creative writing at Beliot College and at University of Wisconsin-Madison's annual "Write By The Lake." NOTE: Beth is teaching May 23–27 and Sept 26–30, 2012 (Three Teaching Days). Studio: Something for all levels. DOWNLOAD THE WORKSHOP SUPPLY LIST (PDF) Beth offers a partial tuition scholarship.
Workshop ItinerarySunday, Monday – Friday, Friday, Saturday Day students are welcome to attend the Welcome Reception and Farewell Reception (included in your package). You are also invited to join the class dinners (additional fee). PAL’s (Participants at large) can vacation at Dillman’s for $50 per night for accommodations. Costs for box lunches and dinners are additional.
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