FOOTHILLS WRITERS SERIES, WINTER 2012
The Foothills Writers Series presents international, national, regional, and local writers reading their own works. For over 36 years, this series has been a fine slate of writers to the Peninsula to pique your interest and keep you reading and writing so please join us. Readings are free and open to the public. Held in the Maier Performance Hall from 12:35 to 1:25 pm unless otherwise noted.
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2012
Sarah Zale, 12:30:00 PM, Maier Performance Hall (E Bldg)
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Sarah Zale, a Port Townsend-based poet, teacher and activist for peace education, will read from her works at Peninsula College’s Foothills Writers Series at 12:35 pm on Wednesday, January 25. The reading will be held in Maier Performance Hall.
The January 25 reading marks a permanent shift in the regular Foothills programming schedule from Tuesday afternoons to Wednesday afternoons. The readings are also moving to the new Maier Performance Hall from the Little Theater, but as always, the readings remain free and open to the public.
One of the works Zale will read from is a poetry collection that was released in 2010, entitled The Art of Folding. The book was inspired by her travels to Israel and Palestine with the Compassionate Listening Project.
Zale teaches writing at Edmonds Community College and Shoreline Community College. One of the courses she teaches is “War as Myth, Identity, and Wound,” which is designed to encourage poetry and narratives to facilitate healing caused by war and conflict. As a teacher and a poet, she is committed to showing how art and poetry can create a dialogue about the important issues of our day—a dialogue that can hold both sides of an issue without engendering fear or anger.
She holds master degrees in education, English literature, and Rhetoric & the Teaching of Writing, as well as an MFA in Creative Writing / Poetry from Goddard College, where she served as the editor-in-chief of Pitkin Review, Goddard’s literary journal.
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2012
Kelli Russell Agodon, 12:30:00 PM, Maier Performance Hall (E bldg)
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Northwest poet, writer and essayist Kelli Russell Agadon will bring her voice to Peninsula College’s Foothills Writers Series on Wednesday, February 22.
Agadon’s second book of poetry, Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room, was released in 2010 and received immediate critical acclaim. It was named as a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and won both the White Pine Poetry Prize and ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Prize in Poetry.
The poems in Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room, are about anxiety, spirituality and the various ways we correspond with each other, including letters, postcards, love notes, conversation, song and prayer. Critics and fellow poets praise Agadon’s ability to create a delicate balance between the seriousness of life and a brilliant sense of playfulness.
Agadon’s first book of poetry was Small Knots, published in 2004. A chapbook, Geography, was released in 2003 and won the Floating Bridge Chapbook Award.
Agadon received her Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Washington and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Pacific Lutheran University. Born and raised in Seattle, she lives in a seaside community in Washington State with her family and is an avid mountain biker, kayaker and hiker.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 02, 2012
Liliana Ursa, 7:00:00 PM, PA Library, Raymond Carver Room
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Liliana Ursu is an internationally acclaimed Romanian poet who has published eight books of poetry in Romania. She has also collaborated with Tess Gallagher and Adam J. Sorkin to have two of those works translated into English: A Path to the Sea and The Sky Behind the Forest which was a British Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation and was shortlisted for Oxford’s Weidenfeld Prize. Ursu has twice been a Fulbright Lecturer at Penn State’s University Park Campus. She has also served as a visiting professor of creative writing at the University of Louisville and as the Poet-in-Residence at Bucknell University.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 07, 2012
Katie Wirsing, 12:30:00 PM, Maier Performance Hall (E Bldg)
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We bring an exciting new voice and style to Foothills with national poetry slam champion Katie Wirsing. Slam poetry touches the human condition with all the craft of the artist. Wirsing’s work is described as “word drawings” that “pour from a channel through her body linking heart, brain, and soul.” She tours all over the US and internationally and has appeared on NPR, the BBC, and many other radio programs. Co-sponsored with the Associated Students of Peninsula College.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 2012
Creative Writing Students, 12:30:00 PM, Maier Performance Hall (E Bldg)
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Janet Lucas’ creative writing students will take to the podium to read their poetry, short stories, memoir, and humor.
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This program has vigorously observed principles of equal opportunities, not
discriminating on the basis of color, national origin, sex, or handicap. If you
or someone you know might be interested in reading, please contact the
co-directors. We encourage unestablished writers—of prose as well as of
poetry—to apply.
We do not censor our readers in any way, and audience members may be offended by a
reader’s language. Nevertheless, we feel this freedom of expression is
necessary.