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Possession Sound Writers Conference 2007
Memory and the Metaphor of the Muses
Thursday - Friday, March 8 – 9, 2007
Everett Community College
Featuring Mary Jo Salter
For Registration and Tickets please report to the Parks Union Building Main Entrance.
Through panels, workshops, and readings, the Possession Sound Visiting Writers Conference will address the processes and enduring value of personal & cultural memory, as well as the sources of artistic inspiration, in our hard-wired, speed-driven culture. We want to promote the literary arts in Snohomish County and beyond, inviting teachers and students from local middle and high schools to add Possession to their arts curricula. By celebrating poetry, fiction, and drama as a vital, achievable, worthwhile practice , we’ll examine and celebrate the ways in which people and communities are enriched by a proper understanding of the role of imagination in their lives.
Writing Workshops in Poetry with David Biespiel and Fiction with Stacey Levine.
Publication Panel with Editors of the Regions Finest Literary Journals.
Readings and Talks to Sharpen the Mind and Broaden the Heart
Possession Sound Writers Conference 2005
May 13 - 14, 2005
Through panels, workshops, and readings, the Possession Sound Writers Conference will address the enduring value of literary and imaginative endeavor in our hard-wired, speed-driven culture. We want to promote the literary arts in Snohomish County and beyond, inviting teachers and students from local middle and high schools to add Possession to their arts curricula. By celebrating poetry, fiction, and drama as living history, we’ll consider the ways in which people and communities are enriched by a proper understanding of the role of imagination in their lives. Craft and Technique Workshops in Poetry, Fiction, Memoir, Children’s Literature, and Playwriting with Jim Bertolino, David Biespiel, Kevin Craft, Pamela Greenwood, Rich Ives, Richard Kenney, Bharti Kirchner, Janet Oakley, Daniel Orozco, Beth Peterson, Bethany Reid, Kary Wayson, and more.
Stanley Plumly was born in Barnesville, Ohio, in 1939, and grew up in the lumber and farming regions of Virginia and Ohio. His work has been honored with 
the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award and nominations for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the William Carlos William Award, and the Academy of American Poets' Lenore Marshal Poetry Prize. Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me: New and Selected Poems, 1970 - 2000 received an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2001. Argument and Song: Sources and Silences in Poetry, a book of essays and criticism three decades in the making, appeared to wide acclaim in 2003. He is currently a Distinguished University Professor and Professor of English at the University of Maryland.
Gail Tsukiyama Bestselling author known for her poignant, subtle insights into the most complicated of relationships. Born in San Francisco, California to a Chinese mother from Hong Kong and a Japanese father from Hawaii, she attended San Francisco State University where she received both her Bachelor of Arts Degree and a Master of Arts Degree in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing. Still a resident of the Bay Area, she has been a part-time lecturer in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University, as well as a freelance book reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle. In September of 2001, she was one of fifty authors chosen by the Library of Congress to participate in the first National Book Festival in Washington D.C., and has been guest speaker at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival, the Sydney Writers' Festival, and the Maui Writers' Conference, not to mention Possession Sound. Her novels include Women of the Silk (1991), The Samurai's Garden (1996), and Dreaming Water (2002).