First Saturday Free Writing Workshop- (PIE) Reading and Open Mic!!! Julene Tripp Weaver and Ansley Clark will lead workshop and be our featured readers Saturday, September 7th!
Workshop at 4:24 pm Reading Open Mic begins at 6:15 pm . The Facebook Event Page is here (also on the Western Washington Poets Network site)
A unique, memorable workshop and reading is in store for you. Hope you can make it.
Workshop 4:24 pm Details:
Julene Tripp Weaver will lead a guided meditation that blends breath and sound to evoke hand-to-page body-centered writing. This approach is drawn from her experience of Continuum Movement work with Founder Emilie Conrad and Rebecca Mark, (they ran Poetry In Motion together for over thirty years). Julene developed and ran Muse To Write groups inspired by Poetry In Motion for ten years including workshops at Cancer Lifeline.
Building off of Julene's somatic exercises, Ansley Clark will offer guided writing prompts centered on an inherited object to encourage participants to reflect on both the silences and the strengths they have inherited inter-generationally. This work is based on Ansley's mixed media antiracism workshop "Inheritance of White Silence '' that she co-teaches with the visual artist Hannah Brancato, designed to support individuals to reflect on their family systems, the characteristics of white supremacy culture, and how we can turn to our ancestral and bodily wisdom to resist this culture.
Then we will have our PoetryIsEverything (PIE) reading at 6:15 pm and open mic with Julene and Ansley as our featured poets followed by an open mic. Reading begins at 6:15pm.
Bios
Julene Tripp Weaver is a writer and retiring psychotherapist in Seattle. Her fourth poetry book, Slow Now with Clear Skies, was released this year from MoonPath Press. Her third poetry book, truth be bold—Serenading Life & Death in the Age of AIDS, won the Bisexual Book Award, four Human Relations Indie Book Awards, and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards. Widely published, her poems can be found in HEAL, Mad Swirl, Anti-Heroin Chic, Feels Blind, and in recent anthologies: I Sing the Salmon Home, and Rumors Secrets & Lies: Poems about Pregnancy, Abortion & Choice.
Ansley Clark is a writer and teacher from the Pacific Northwest. She is the author of Bloodline, forthcoming from MoonPath Press on September 15th, 2024, and the chapbook Geography (dancing girl press 2015). Her poems and essays have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Colorado Review, Bennington Review, and elsewhere. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2016. She currently is the director of the Writing Center at The Evergreen State College and lives in Olympia, Washington with her dog.