Event

LiTFUSE 2013

LiTFUSE is an annual weekend-long poets' workshop held in Tieton, WA (near Yakima), for poets of all ages, abilities & styles. LiTFUSE combines writing, performance, meditation, music, camaraderie and natural beauty to IGNiTE your muse. What an embarrassment of poetic riches! This year from Sept. 27-29th, the 7th Annual LiTFUSE features Pushcart and Oregon Book Award winner DORIANNE LAUX. The poet Tony Hoagland says of Laux, "Her poems are those of a grown American woman, one who looks clearly, passionately, and affectionately at rites of passage, motherhood, the life of work, sisterhood, and especially sexual love, in a celebratory fashion." We also feature rising star & James Laughlin award winner JENNIFER K. SWEENEY. The poet Afaa Michael Weaver says, "Jennifer K. Sweeney's HOW TO LIVE ON BREAD AND MUSIC is a remarkable achievement from the hand of a poet with a subtle and compassionate mindfulness. . . . Adept at the delicate project of inventiveness in the line, she shows us time and again that language is the matter of the poet and that there is surprise in the gift, as this book is sure evidence of the gift." Our extraordinary faculty also includes Washington State Book Award winner CHRISTOPHER HOWELL, former Alaska Writer Laureate PEGGY SHUMAKER, Pushcart Prize winner JOSEPH MILLAR, translator author and editor CHAD SWEENEY, nationally acclaimed spoken-word artist TATYANA BROWN, and Washington State Book Award finalist ALICE DERRY. LiTFUSE especially features the art and natural beauty of Tieton, YOU and your fellow poets, love & support - and always a few surprises!