Elk River Writers Workshop Cabin Fever Series

This four-session, eight-hour workshop will explore the crafting of poems through the art of listening (to the world around us as well as the music of the Poem). We will discuss and practice finding the Poem, trusting the Poem to say what it needs to say, and tuning our ear to hear the Poem’s authentic music. Similar techniques will be used to revise our work – with the understanding of re-vise as “to see our original intention again,” or rather to re-listen to the poem that’s hidden beneath our attempts to over-think and over-write it.

The workshop is open to adults at any stage of their writing life, from total novice to seasoned practitioner. No previous workshop experience is required. Class size is limited to 20 students.

The workshop is facilitated by Marc Beaudin, a poet, theatre artist and bookseller based in Livingston, Montana. He is the author of These Creatures of a Day, Life List: Poems (an Honor Book winner from the Montana Book Award), and Vagabond Song: Neo-Haibun from the Peregrine Journals. His spoken word album, From Coltrane to Coal Train: An Eco-Jazz Suite, features music by members of the band Morphine.

His poetry has appeared in Orion, Cutthroat, Whitefish Review, Deep Wild Journal, among others, and is widely anthologized in publications dedicated to environmental and social justice. He has taught numerous workshops and classes for hundreds of students of all ages at venues throughout Michigan and the Rocky Mountain West, including the Theodore Roethke House, GetLit! Festival, and Elk River Writers Workshop. More at CrowVoice.com.