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Special Topicshe AROHO Ghost Ranch Writing Retreat: Reflections on Georgia O'Keefe's Artist Residence and New Writings InspiredF10-T01
Course Canceled The Bread of Poetry & the Poetry of BreadF10-T02
Dickinson RevealedF10-T03
Great Myths and Sacred StorytellingF10-T04
The Art and Ethics of Writing True CrimeF10-T05 Much as been written about the 1957 murder of Vickie Zielinski by Edgar Smith, including three books and numerous legal appeals by the murderer, a novel by Mary Higgins Clark, several influential pieces by William F. Buckley (first defending Smith, then defending himself for defending Smith), and even a defense of his father by the prosecutor’s son. The more one digs, the more questions one has, and the more there is to write about. Smith recently lost what many expect will be his last appeal. This course will work on non-fiction, fiction or poetry, any writing that respects the victim, the facts and our common sense of justice.
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“How Do I Love Thee?” Romantic Love Poems Through the AgesTuesday, February 7, 7 p.m. Afternoon TeaWed., Feb. 8, 4:30 - 6 p.m. The Bertrand Russell SocietyHosted by Phil Ebersol Book Kick-off: Angels Flying Backwards, by Iris MillerThursday, Feb. 9, 7 p.m. Valentine’s Day card-making workshop for families.Saturday February 11, 10 a.m. - noon Genesee Reading SeriesHosted by Wanda Schubmehl Click here for more February Events...
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Angela Cannon-Crothers will give a presentation about the A Room Of Her Own Foundation's Women's Writing Retreat at Georgia O'Keefe's Ghost Ranch in New Mexico she attended this past August. Learn about AROHO and its fellowships and opportunities for women writers, O'Keefe's the mystical retreat setting, and facilitators who attended the ‘09 event - including Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet Rita Dove. The program will include slide show images, a discussion of what writers can learn from O'Keefe's deeply spiritual surroundings that served as her inspiration, and a reading of new works by Cannon-Crothers.
Bread and poetry have been married for centuries. In this class, we will actually bake bread together—several kinds, Italian, French, and American—and devour it (with some wine, cheese, and wild greens), dipping it in some good olive oil, while sharing poetry in which bread is a central image. Everyone gets to take some bread (and some poetry) home. 
Who really was the Belle of Amherst? Learn from the latest research that Dickinson was neither a spinster crackpot nor a recluse; she did NOT pine for male suitors. Learn her true biography, plus what really inspired much of her work, and how to read for the meanings she intended; learn where in print to find the correct versions of her poems as she wrote them. Bibliography and hand-outs. 
Almeta’s storytelling philosophy “evolves from a feeling place to a thinking place, endeavoring to touch the heart and the spirit in ways which are common to us all…a common ground place that transcends the divisions and separations that we create in our minds, which influence our everyday actions and society as a whole.” This class presents those common threads of indigenous and contemporary storytelling methodology, sacred communal rituals and myths, which are historically grounded in cultural traditions, spirituality and folk art. We will explore, compare and contrast the importance of cultural, artistic and spiritual influences that underlie sacred storytelling and the creation of great myths. 