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Our first Saturday free writing workshop, reading and open mic will feature Frederick Livingston who was born in Washington but now lives in Ireland. Workshop 4:24 to 6:00
Frederick has an interesting mini-workshop planned for us: Can poetry evolve culture in service of a wounded earth? Description: Where do poems come from and where do they go? Where do we fit in between, receiving and shaping them into our future? There will be a few prompts and time to write and share too.
6:15 pm PIE* reading and Open Mic - feature: Frederick....
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Bio:
Frederick Livingston is a spoken word ecologist from valleys between the Salish Sea and Cascade Mountains. His path with plants and education has taken him around the world, from Peace Corps in rural Tanzania to the United Nations University for Peace in Costa Rica, and beyond. Whether teaching in mud-brick classrooms, farms, wilderness, or prisons, he strives to plant seeds for a more fruitful earth.
Since his 6th grade debut on local-access television performing “Ode to a Chair”, Frederick’s work has appeared in scientific journals, literary magazines, and public spaces. He has been the featured poet of California Quarterly and nominated for several Pushcart and Best of the Net awards. He is the author of the poetry collection “The Moon and Other Fruits” as well as his most recent title, “Trees are Bridges to the Sky”, which won the Prism Prize for Climate Literature.
* PIE= Poetry Is Everything
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609 Market Street, Kirkland, WA, United States, Washington 98033
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