Sundog Poetry’s One-Day Writing Retreat at Fielder Farm 2022

150 Fielder Farm Rd,Huntington VT 05462

21 August, 2022

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The Sundog Poetry Center is happy to announce a one-day poetry writing retreat at Fielder Farm with Liz Powell and Angela Patten in Huntington, VT. Theme: Rewilding Rewilding can be interpreted in many ways: returning to natural rhythms in nature, in our own lives, and in our poetry, as a way to repair what has been damaged or degraded in ecosystems, in lifestyle, or in language. We hope the retreat will give you a chance to explore what the word can mean to you and to the poems you write. Workshop leaders will provide prompts for inspiration, two stretches of free writing time, and feedback in two small-group workshops on the two poems each participant is invited to submit by August 14. There will be time to walk around and enjoy the stunning Fielder Farm grounds, take a dip in the pond, and share poetry at the end of the day. Please bring writing utensils and anything else you will need for your comfort (sun hat, picnic blanket or portable lawn chair, swimsuit, etc.). In the event of rain we will postpone to the rain date and provide refunds if needed. Date: August 21st, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (Rain date August 28th) Location: Fielder Farm in Huntington, VT: 150 Fielder Rd., Huntington, VT 05462 Fielder Farm 150 Fielder Rd. Huntington, VT 05462 Cost: $125 per person, includes catered lunch* *Almost Home Catering will provide a bag lunch of vegetarian quiche, salad, and cookie--dietary restrictions can be accommodated with enough advance notice. LIMITED TO 16 SPOTS. A wait list will be established, if needed. For more details about the Sundog Poetry Center: https://www.sundogpoetry.org/ Angela Patten Publications include four poetry collections and a prose memoir. The Oriole & the Ovenbird (Kelsay Books 2021), focuses on the primal interplay between humans and avian species in our lives and imaginations. In Praise of Usefulness (Wind Ridge Books 2014), celebrates the extraordinary in ordinary things. High Tea at a Low Table: Stories from an Irish Childhood (Wind Ridge Books 2013), combines her recollections of growing up in Ireland with some unexpectedly traumatic events she experienced as a young adult in America. Other poetry collections are Reliquaries and Still Listening (Salmon Poetry, Ireland, 2007 and 1999). She lives in Burlington, Vermont. Elizabeth A.I. Powell is the author of three books of poems, including ATOMIZER (LSU Press, 2020), which The Boston Globe called "confident poems, ones that disrupt and magnify our relationship with one way in which we sense the world." Her second book of poems, Willy Loman’s Reckless Daughter: Living Truthfully Under Imaginary Circumstances was named a “Books We Love 2016” by The New Yorker. Her novel, Concerning the Holy Ghost's Interpretation of JCrew Catalogues, was published in 2019 in the U.K. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The New Republic and American Poetry Review. Past work has appeared in the Pushcart Prize Anthology, Colorado Review, Ecotone, Electric Literature, Forklift, Ohio, Harvard Review, Indiana Review, Missouri Review, Mississippi Review, Seneca Review, Ploughshares, Plume, West Branch, and elsewhere. Powell is Editor-in-Chief and Poetry Editor of Green Mountains Review, and Professor and Chair of Writing and Literature at Northern Vermont University-Johnson. She also serves on the faculty of the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Omaha.In 2020, she was Distinguished Visiting Faculty at the Oregon State University-Bend MFA program.