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Nonfiction Craft Class with Maggie Smith ticket
Memory As Material: A Craft Class with Maggie Smith on Friday, April 11th from 10:30-12:30 PM at the Central Library, Events Room A. In this generative nonfiction class, we’ll work on creating art from life, using our memories as material. How do we get to the heart of a lived experience on the page? How can we feel comfortable and confident sharing our personal lives with a public audience? What craft elements can we lean on? If you’ve ever asked yourself these questions, this workshop is for you. We’ll discuss short pieces of creative nonfiction, and we’ll use those models as inspiration as we begin our own pieces. Don't miss this amazing chance to hone your craft with Maggie Smith!
Memory As Material: A Craft Class with Maggie Smith on Friday, April 11th from 10:30-12:30 PM at the Central Library, Events Room A. In this generative nonfiction class, we’ll work on creating art from life, using our memories as material. How do we get to the heart of a lived experience on the page? How can we feel comfortable and confident sharing our personal lives with a public audience? What craft elements can we lean on? If you’ve ever asked yourself these questions, this workshop is for you. We’ll discuss short pieces of creative nonfiction, and we’ll use those models as inspiration as we begin our own pieces. Don't miss this amazing chance to hone your craft with Maggie Smith!
$35.00+ $2.66 feePoetry Craft Class with Danez Smith ticket
Personal Machines: Invented Form, A Craft Class with Danez Smith on Friday, April 11th from 1:00-3:00 PM at the Central Library, Events Room A. Poets often reach towards specific forms in order to propel or control a poem, they also might be reaching for a bit of challenge or exploration, but what if we go beyond sonnets or sestinas and instead choose an experiment of our own design? For myself, while I have found that while free verse poetry has always been a succulent wilderness to venture into in search of a poem, the constraints and encouragements of form – particularly those of my own design – have allowed for reverberations between myself and the work that would not have been found unless constructed the limits of invented form. In this workshop, we will explore wonders found in recently invented forms like the bop, the burning haibun, and the Molotov sonnet before turning our attention to forms we will pattern ourselves. This workshop is for those looking to push the limits on their work as well as those looking to take the brakes off completely. In times of great violence and hope, can we break from the received forms of the times and become fugitives into new shapes and possibilities? In this workshop, we will trouble those answers together. Don't miss this amazing chance to study the craft of poetry with Danez Smith!
Personal Machines: Invented Form, A Craft Class with Danez Smith on Friday, April 11th from 1:00-3:00 PM at the Central Library, Events Room A. Poets often reach towards specific forms in order to propel or control a poem, they also might be reaching for a bit of challenge or exploration, but what if we go beyond sonnets or sestinas and instead choose an experiment of our own design? For myself, while I have found that while free verse poetry has always been a succulent wilderness to venture into in search of a poem, the constraints and encouragements of form – particularly those of my own design – have allowed for reverberations between myself and the work that would not have been found unless constructed the limits of invented form. In this workshop, we will explore wonders found in recently invented forms like the bop, the burning haibun, and the Molotov sonnet before turning our attention to forms we will pattern ourselves. This workshop is for those looking to push the limits on their work as well as those looking to take the brakes off completely. In times of great violence and hope, can we break from the received forms of the times and become fugitives into new shapes and possibilities? In this workshop, we will trouble those answers together. Don't miss this amazing chance to study the craft of poetry with Danez Smith!
$35.00+ $2.66 feeFiction Craft Class with Debra Magpie Earling ticket
A Fiction Craft Class with Debra Magpie Earling on Friday, April 11th from 3:30-5:30 PM at the Central Library, Events Room A. When I am Stuck: A Fiction Class When I am wrestling with a story that has nagged me for years, or a new story that seems dull or lifeless and needs a boost, I begin a list of things, curious things I know or have read about, and without fail I spark a lively narrative. In this class we will share a list of topics that will invigorate your writing. Come prepared to write, to dream, to read aloud, and to find new pathways to enliven your stories. Come prepared to have fun! - Debra Magpie Earling "How infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way . . . so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever. All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.” Isak Dinesen
A Fiction Craft Class with Debra Magpie Earling on Friday, April 11th from 3:30-5:30 PM at the Central Library, Events Room A. When I am Stuck: A Fiction Class When I am wrestling with a story that has nagged me for years, or a new story that seems dull or lifeless and needs a boost, I begin a list of things, curious things I know or have read about, and without fail I spark a lively narrative. In this class we will share a list of topics that will invigorate your writing. Come prepared to write, to dream, to read aloud, and to find new pathways to enliven your stories. Come prepared to have fun! - Debra Magpie Earling "How infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way . . . so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever. All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.” Isak Dinesen
$35.00+ $2.66 feePoetry Craft Class with Li-Young Lee ticket
A Poetry Craft Class with Li-Young Lee on Friday, April 11th from 3:30-5:30 PM at the Central Library, Events Room A. Join renowned poet Li-Young Lee for an intimate conversation on craft. Please come with questions about his work, your own work, and the questions we all face about how and why we write — and read — poetry today. This will be less formal than a traditional craft class, and there will be time for freewriting on different prompts as topics come up in the conversation. Don't miss this unique opportunity to talk with and write with the legendary poet Li-Young Lee!
A Poetry Craft Class with Li-Young Lee on Friday, April 11th from 3:30-5:30 PM at the Central Library, Events Room A. Join renowned poet Li-Young Lee for an intimate conversation on craft. Please come with questions about his work, your own work, and the questions we all face about how and why we write — and read — poetry today. This will be less formal than a traditional craft class, and there will be time for freewriting on different prompts as topics come up in the conversation. Don't miss this unique opportunity to talk with and write with the legendary poet Li-Young Lee!
$35.00+ $2.66 feeAn Evening of Poetry with Jonathan Johnson and Li-Young Lee ticket
An Evening of Poetry with Jonathan Johnson and Li-Young Lee on Friday, April 11th from 7:00 - 8:30 PM at the Central Library, nxʷyxʷyetkʷ Hall. We are pleased to present an evening of poetry and conversation between poets Jonathan Johnson and Li-Young Lee. This event is a thrilling pairing for our community as it puts beloved Inland Northwest poet and professor Jonathan Johnson on stage with Li-Young Lee, a prominent contributor to the contemporary canon and poetry legend! Jonathan and Li-Young’s work share many similar concerns and themes including fatherhood, family heritage, and overcoming the adversities of grief. Jonathan Johnson is the author of seven books, two of which—Pine, a collection of poetry, and The Little Lights of Town, a short-story collection—are forthcoming in 2025. Li-Young Lee is the author of six critically acclaimed books of poetry, most recently The Invention of the Darling. Both poets will read from their collections and will engage in a conversation moderated by Jonathan Frey who is an EWU MFA alum and professor of English at North Idaho College. Don’t miss what we are sure will be an incredible evening celebrating the power of poetry!
An Evening of Poetry with Jonathan Johnson and Li-Young Lee on Friday, April 11th from 7:00 - 8:30 PM at the Central Library, nxʷyxʷyetkʷ Hall. We are pleased to present an evening of poetry and conversation between poets Jonathan Johnson and Li-Young Lee. This event is a thrilling pairing for our community as it puts beloved Inland Northwest poet and professor Jonathan Johnson on stage with Li-Young Lee, a prominent contributor to the contemporary canon and poetry legend! Jonathan and Li-Young’s work share many similar concerns and themes including fatherhood, family heritage, and overcoming the adversities of grief. Jonathan Johnson is the author of seven books, two of which—Pine, a collection of poetry, and The Little Lights of Town, a short-story collection—are forthcoming in 2025. Li-Young Lee is the author of six critically acclaimed books of poetry, most recently The Invention of the Darling. Both poets will read from their collections and will engage in a conversation moderated by Jonathan Frey who is an EWU MFA alum and professor of English at North Idaho College. Don’t miss what we are sure will be an incredible evening celebrating the power of poetry!
$25.00+ $2.27 feeBook Fair Pass ticket
Book Fair: Saturday, April 12th from 9-5pm at the Montvale Event Center. This ticket gives access to the Book Fair and over a dozen events taking place in the Montvale Event Center on Saturday, April 12th from 9-5pm. The Book Fair will feature 25+ local and regional bookish organizations and non-profits including Auntie's Bookstore, Spokane Print and Publishing Center, Spark Central, Jupiter's Eye Book Cafe, Willow Springs Books, and many more! This pass also includes access to exciting panel discussions on poetry and prose featuring headliners Maggie Smith and Danez Smith; open-mics where attendees can share their own work; a silent reading party; Drop In and Write with Spark Central, free DOMA coffee, and much more! Festivalgoers can come and go throughout the day with this Book Fair Pass.
Book Fair: Saturday, April 12th from 9-5pm at the Montvale Event Center. This ticket gives access to the Book Fair and over a dozen events taking place in the Montvale Event Center on Saturday, April 12th from 9-5pm. The Book Fair will feature 25+ local and regional bookish organizations and non-profits including Auntie's Bookstore, Spokane Print and Publishing Center, Spark Central, Jupiter's Eye Book Cafe, Willow Springs Books, and many more! This pass also includes access to exciting panel discussions on poetry and prose featuring headliners Maggie Smith and Danez Smith; open-mics where attendees can share their own work; a silent reading party; Drop In and Write with Spark Central, free DOMA coffee, and much more! Festivalgoers can come and go throughout the day with this Book Fair Pass.
$25.00+ $2.27 feeAn Evening with Danez Smith and Maggie Smith ticket
An Evening with Danez Smith and Maggie Smith on Saturday, April 12th from 7:00-8:30 PM at the Bing Crosby Theater. Get Lit! is thrilled to welcome two award-winning, groundbreaking writers, Maggie Smith and Danez Smith, to Spokane. Maggie is the author of seven books of poetry and prose including her most recent craft book, Dear Writer, a New York Times bestselling memoir titled You Could Make This Place Beautiful, and poetry collections like Good Bones, and Goldenrod. Danez is the author of four award-winning poetry collections, including Bluff and Homie. A poet, performer, and cultural critic, Danez has been featured in Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The New Yorker, GQ, and more. Maggie and Danez are two of the most engaging and celebrated voices writing today, and we are thrilled to present this opportunity to put them on stage together for both a reading and a discussion. Maggie and Danez will join poet EWU MFA alum Aileen Keown Vaux for a rich conversation on creativity and craft. And stick around after the event for a book signing with Auntie's!
An Evening with Danez Smith and Maggie Smith on Saturday, April 12th from 7:00-8:30 PM at the Bing Crosby Theater. Get Lit! is thrilled to welcome two award-winning, groundbreaking writers, Maggie Smith and Danez Smith, to Spokane. Maggie is the author of seven books of poetry and prose including her most recent craft book, Dear Writer, a New York Times bestselling memoir titled You Could Make This Place Beautiful, and poetry collections like Good Bones, and Goldenrod. Danez is the author of four award-winning poetry collections, including Bluff and Homie. A poet, performer, and cultural critic, Danez has been featured in Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The New Yorker, GQ, and more. Maggie and Danez are two of the most engaging and celebrated voices writing today, and we are thrilled to present this opportunity to put them on stage together for both a reading and a discussion. Maggie and Danez will join poet EWU MFA alum Aileen Keown Vaux for a rich conversation on creativity and craft. And stick around after the event for a book signing with Auntie's!
$25.00+ $2.27 fee
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