An Online Workshop with CMarie Fuhrman
\nTuesday\, January 27
\n5:00 &ndash\; 7:00pm Pacific Time
\nRegistration: $60 or $55 for \;Fishtrappers
Is the registration fee an obstacle for you to attend this workshop? Fishtrap offers a limited number of scholarships to help with the cost. Contact Program Director Mike Midlo for more information. \;mike@fishtrap.org
\n\nWhat&rsquo\;s the difference between \;a \;crisis and \;the \;crisis? Or simply stating\, &ldquo\;Crisis is here&rdquo\;? Everything. In our writing and speech\, the smallest words&mdash\;and their deliberate omission&mdash\;do the heaviest lifting as powerful\, nearly invisible tools of persuasion.
\n\nThis nuts-and-bolts session investigates how &lsquo\;a\,&rsquo\; &lsquo\;an\,&rsquo\; &lsquo\;the\,&rsquo\; and/or their absence shape our world. We&rsquo\;ll move beyond grammar to see how this choice can include or exclude people and establish authority. We&rsquo\;ll see how it can grant legitimacy\, challenge authority\, and fundamentally alter our relationship with our reader\, each other\, and the more-than-human world\, turning \;a river \;into \;the river \;that sustains a community\, or simply \;river \;who has agency\, or positioning nature as \;a resource \;to be used or as \;the Earth \;to which we belong. This single decision shifts the entire emotional\, political\, and ecological landscape of a statement.
\n\nYou will leave with the ability to spot this influence everywhere and to use it with intention&mdash\;crafting sentences and poetic lines that are more persuasive\, prose that is more powerful\, and arguments that are impossible to ignore.
\n\nNote: All curious minds are welcome. The only prerequisite is a fascination with how language truly works.
\n\nCMarie Fuhrman \;is a poet and author whose work is inspired by the Western landscape. She is the author of \;Salmon Weather: Writing from the Land of No Return \;and 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 director of the Elk River Writers Workshop and an award-winning columnist for \;The Inlander. She is the associate director of Western Colorado University&rsquo\;s Graduate Program in Creative Writing and the founder of Confluence Writing Community. CMarie is the host of \;Terra Firma\, a Colorado Public Radio program. She is a former Idaho Writer in Residence and lives in the Salmon River Mountains of Idaho\, where she spends summer days working as a fire lookout.
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