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Location:
UW Friday Harbor Laboratories on San Juan Island
Instructors: Richard Kenney
and Cody Walker
Students: Anyone interested in poetry
or the writing arts
Cost: $850 (includes instructional
costs, housing, and 3 meals a day)
Applications: Deadline:
May 29, 2009
Course credits: 5 credits of ENGL
493 (Advanced Creative Writing Conference)
This is a two-week seminar in the art and practice of poetry, to be held this coming September at the University of Washington’s Friday Harbor Laboratories on San Juan Island. There will be lecture and discussion, reading, critique, informal chat and solitary time for composition. All comers welcome: no experience is presumed; a wide range of experience is anticipated. Participants will be housed in student quarters at the marine station, and will take meals together at the dining hall.
What is poetry? What are its forms and ways and means? What are its affinities with other forms of knowing, such as natural science, as practiced famously at the marine station? What is a poet’s relation to the natural world? Such widely-ranging questions, and others of mutual interest, will be explored in an experimental spirit at the point of the pencil: this is intended to be a practical apprenticeship in the poet’s art, rather than a theoretical or critically-minded literary seminar. In that spirit, writing will be constant and joyful. We’ll meet twice daily, with open time between. Expect lectures and discussion on the following topics: poetry and play, poetry and comedy, poetry and the natural world, nursery rhymes and nonsense, tone and gesture, and the generative nature of poetic constraints.
The course will be directed and taught by UW English Department Faculty, Richard Kenney and Cody Walker, along with a number of guest speakers.
Participants will receive five credits of English 493 (Advanced Creative Writing Conference). Credits may be reassigned to cover certain courses in the Creative Writing Pathway. Course credits will be included in students' AUTUMN schedules (which may have implications for total tuition owed, depending on how many total credits a student takes during Autumn Quarter). Students will not sign up for Poetry in Friday Harbor credits through MyUW; instead registration for Poetry in Friday Harbor will be handled through the English Advising Office after the enrollment for the program has been determined.
Application deadline: May 29, 2009
We have reserved accommodation for just fifteen students. We expect the seminar to fill quickly. Make application by letter of inquiry, along with the application form (downloadable in PDF format), to Cody Walker (codyw@u.) AND Richard Kenney (rk@u.). (if you cannot attach the PDF form, make sure that the information required is included in the letter of inquiry.) If the program fills before the final deadline, a waiting list will be established.
A $250.00 nonrefundable deposit is due upon acceptance to the program. The remaining fee of $600.00 to be paid in full by Friday, August 28, 2009. If a participant is forced to withdraw, a refund of all but the $250 deposit will be made if the withdrawing student's place is filled by someone on the waiting list. No refunds are possible after the program has begun.
NOTE: Program fees do not include tuition; a student's Autumn tuition will be based upon total Autumn credits, including Friday Harbor credits. Evening Degree students must pay Evening Degree tuition directly to UW Educational Outreach, in addition to program fees paid to the Department of English.
For more information about Cody Walker, please visit his website. For more information about Richard Kenney, please see the Borzoi Reader (A Knopf publication) online.
Application forms are available for download in Portable Document Format (PDF). To view and print forms in PDF format, it is necessary to have Adobe Acrobat Reader Software. If you do not have the software, it can be obtained free of charge from Adobe (or go directly to the Acrobat download page by clicking on the following image). Please follow their instructions for installation on your computer.
