Hello Tweets,

[I'm passing on the following information to those who like to write poems
about plovers, ditties about dunlin, stanzas about sandpipers....]


This year's Nature Poetry Workshop at the Padilla Bay National Estuarine
Research Reserve is scheduled for Saturday, August 3, from 8:45 a.m. to 5
p.m. This full-day workshop with Madeline DeFrees will explore techniques
for writing poetry relating to a natural environment. Along with lecture
and discussion, there will be an opportunity to explore the estuarine
tidal flats of Padilla Bay and to write about this incredibly productive
place.

Note to teachers: This is a Washington state clock hour offering.

Place: Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
Time: 8:45 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Cost: $15 (check payable to Department of Ecology)

Please bring: writing supplies, your own coffee cup, a bag lunch or $5 for
a box lunch, and appropriate clothing for exploring a mud flat (light
jacket, old shoes that tie or snug boots).

For more information, and for registration forms (which include on the
reverse an area map of the reserve), please call Glen Alexander at (360)
428-1558. You can also write to Glen at:

Department of Ecology
Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
Breazeale-Padilla Bay Interpretive Center
1043 Bay View-Edison Road
Mount Vernon WA 98273


Madeline DeFrees, a native of Oregon, is the author of six full-length
collections of poetry and two books of prose. She has received a
Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and
numberous awards for her poems and stories. Her teaching career took her
to Holy Names College, Gonzaga University, Marylhurst College, and the
Universities of Washington, Victoria, Montana, and Massachusetts. She has
lived in Seattle since her retirement in 1985 and continues to write and
lead workshops.


[I attended the second poetry workshop in May, 1994, facilitated by Tim
McNulty, who's not only a fine poet but an encouraging teacher. Some of
you may know him as the author of a recent book, a history of the Pacific
Northwest, the name of which escapes me at the moment. Sheesh, how
embarassing! Sorry.

There may still be available for sale at the Interpretive Center copies of
the 1994 Padilla Bay Poets Anthology, which includes poems from the first
two workshops. If you'd like to know more specific information about what
the workshop I attended was like, or if you have other related questions,
please e-mail me privately.]

---Lisa

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Lisa M. Smith, Seattle WA <subplot at u.washington.edu>