We’ll explore ideas about landscape and poetry, using your own experience as a source for writing down memories, observations, thoughts and feelings. Come prepared with a creative spark and a willingness to share the work you make in class with workshop participants. Have a favorite landscape in mind to write about. Make some magic in assembling words, sounds and images. No experience necessary. Poets and writers at all levels are welcome!  
 
About the Instructor: 

Bill won a 2009 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in Creative Writing and has published five books of poems -- two are just out, The Largest Glue Factory in the World (Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2024) and A History of the Azores (Clay Street Press, 2024), available on Amazon. He has been working at the United Nations in New York for many years and hopes to bring humanism and heart to the poetry world. He’s writing every day and working with the Red Hook Conservation Advisory Council to explore and protect our local natural resources.