port townsend writers’ conference

Digging into the Heart of Writing

For the past three days, I have been watching men in my driveway dig deeper and deeper into the earth. It has something to do with an underground power line that has been defunct for a better part of a year. The problem in getting the line fixed is that it’s buried below more than four feet […]

Writing Retreats: A Report from Port Townsend Writers’ Conference and Beyond

I returned home last night from the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference. It was a great week of workshops, craft talks and readings. I spent six days in the workshop of the poet Carl Phillips who had many things to say about kinds of repetition and pattern in poetry. The drafts of poems I brought to class […]