CMarie Fuhrman will present a free poetry workshop at 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, October 7, at River Arts, 416 Main Street, Kamiah.
Fuhrman is a writer, teacher, and part-time fire lookout whose work is inspired by the Western landscape. Fuhrman served as Idaho’s Writer in Residence from 2021 to 2023. The residency is Idaho’s highest literary recognition accorded an Idaho Writer. Fuhrman is also the director of the Elk River Writers Workshop and an award-winning columnist for The Inlander. She is the Associate Director of Western Colorado University’s Graduate Program in Creative Writing, and founder of Confluence Writing Community.
According to Fuhrman, "My efforts as a writer are in the tradition of literary storytelling, and my hope is that, by sharing my own personal experiences, I can celebrate the beauty of and bear witness to the difficulties of others, especially underrepresented voices, while encouraging heightened self-recognition, education, healing, and protection of the land.”
The workshop is titled "The Power of Articles: How A, An, and The Can Shape Our Perceptions” and will be a nuts-and-bolts session on how articles and/or their absence shape our world. The exploration will move beyond grammar to see how this choice can include or exclude people and establish authority and fundamentally alter our relationship with readers, each other, and the more-than-human world, turning a river into the river that sustains a community, or simply river which has agency, or positioning nature as a resource to be used or as the Earth to which we belong.
Participants will leave with the ability to spot this influence everywhere and to use it with intention—crafting sentences and poetic lines that are more persuasive, prose that is more powerful, and arguments that are impossible to ignore. All curious minds are welcome. The only prerequisite is a fascination with how language truly works.
CMarie Fuhrman is the author of Salmon Weather: Writing from the Land of No Return, the poetry chapbook Camped Beneath the Dam, as well as the co-editor of two significant anthologies, Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, and Poetry and Native Voices: Indigenous Poetry, Craft, and Conversations. She has poetry and nonfiction published or forthcoming in a variety of publications, including Terrain.org, Emergence Magazine, Alta Magazine, Northwest Review, Yellow Medicine Review, Poetry Northwest, Big Sky Journal, and various anthologies. CMarie is the host of Terra Firma, a Colorado Public Radio program. She lives in the Salmon River Mountains of Idaho. Learn more at www.cmariefuhrman.com
This event is free.
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https://www.riverartskamiah.org/event/poetry-workshop-with-cmarie-fuhrman/
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