Where Memory Dwells: A Poetry Workshop - Linda Aldrich

August 8 - 9, 2009
Tuition: $300
2-day workshop, limited to 8 people
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“…it is not a building, but is quite dissolved and distributed inside me: here one room, there another, and here a bit of corridor…”      Rilke
                                                                                                           
Who we are is laid down in layers of memory and experience, both real and imagined. This poetry workshop will focus on uncovering those layers by reading memory-based poems by well-known writers and by writing new poems triggered by exercises designed to open doors and windows into the past.  New writing will be emphasized for workshop and discussion.

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Linda Aldrich grew up in New Hampshire and recently moved back to Vermont from Colorado, where she currently teaches in the Integrative Studies Program at Keene State College. She has an MFA in Writing from Vermont College and an MA in Theatre Arts from Florida State University. Linda’s chapbook Foothold was recently published by Finishing Line Press. Her poems have been published in many journals, among them Indiana Review, Cimarron Review, Elixir, TheDenver Quarterly, Ellipsis, The Florida Review, Poet Lore, Third Coast, Puerto del Sol, and The Writer’s Chronicle.  Her poem “Woman-without-Arms” won the Emily Dickinson Award 2000 from Universities West Press.  Linda lives in Marlboro, Vermont, with her husband David and their exceptional dog Piper.