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SUMMARY:Stubborn Praise, with guest Heather Swan
DESCRIPTION:An evening celebrating here and now through poetry\nwith hosts Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer ( https://www.wordwoman.com/ ) and James Crews ( http://jamescrews.net/ )\nand special guest \nHeather Swan ( https://english.wisc.edu/staff/swan-heather/ )\nOctober 12, 5 pm (PDT), 6 p.m (MDT), 7 p.m. (CDT), 8 p.m (EDT)\nfree, but need to register ( https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_f6bMZ02HQ_Kb49PN6NXTPw )\n \nEvery (other) second Monday of the month, invite yourself to an evening of poetry that wholly meets the moment, its losses and fears, and helps us also to see small kindnesses, stubborn blessings, and renegade beauty. After the readings will be conversation harvested from questions and comments in Zoom chat. Though unlimited people may register, space is limited to 100, so be sure to show up on time!\n \nThis month’s guest is Heather Swan ( https://english.wisc.edu/staff/swan-heather/ ), author of “Where the Honeybees Thrive” and the new poetry collection, A Kinship with Ash ( https://www.amazon.com/Kinship-Ash-Heather-Swan/dp/1947896318/ref=as_li_ss_tl?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=D2EWH829YGA2MF87M96W&linkCode=sl1&tag=dianelockward-20&linkId=80ea755be912103b61f6008812330712&language=en_US&fbclid=IwAR2y6otQRy3TMflsPo6JRUSviOT_nNgclZFVWM9HGkH2epvTo5uApacjJU4 ).\n*\nThis free event is hosted by SHYFT at Mile High, whose mission is to provide all people, regardless of ability to pay, with classes and programs proven to reduce stress, heal trauma, and create connection.\nRosemerry Wahtola Trommer lives in Placerville, Colorado, on the banks of the San Miguel River. She served as San Miguel County’s first poet laureate and as Western Slope Poet Laureate. She teaches poetry for addiction recovery programs, hospice, mindfulness retreats, scientists, women’s retreats, teachers and private students. She believes in the power of practice and has been writing a poem a day since 2006. She has 12 collections of poetry, and her work has appeared in O Magazine and on A Prairie Home Companion. Her most recent collection, Hush, won the Halcyon Prize, and Naked for Tea, was a finalist for the Able Music Book Award. She is the co-host of Emerging Form, a podcast on creative process, and co-founder of Secret Agents of Change, a group devoted to surreptitious acts of kindness. One-word mantra: Adjust\nJames Crews’ work has appeared in Ploughshares, Raleigh Review, Crab Orchard Review and The New Republic, as well as on Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry newspaper column. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a PhD in Writing & Literature from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The author of three collections of poetry, The Book of What Stays (Prairie Schooner Prize and Foreword Book of the Year Citation, 2011), Telling My Father (Cowles Prize, 2017), and Bluebird, Crews is also editor of Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection. He leads Mindfulness & Writing workshops and retreats throughout the country and works as a writing coach with groups and individuals. He lives with his husband, Brad Peacock, in Shaftsbury, Vermont.\n \n
URL:https://www.wordwoman.com/schedule/stubborn-praise-with-guest-heather-swan/
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