Category Archives: writing retreat

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 […]

Off to the Ocean

Dear Readers, I am headed off to the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference all next week.  I will be slaving working at the conference and also taking a workshop from the poet Carl Phillips.  I am thrilled to take the class and extremely grateful for the folks at Centrum who asked me to come and work. I […]