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Thursday, March 25, 2021
GO! magazine — A&E in Northeast Oregon
Write with nature — on Wednesdays in April
ENTERPRISE — Fishtrap is hosting a
month-long writing workshop, “The Land
Beneath Your Feet: Writing with Nature,” led by
Karen Auvinen on Wednesdays in April.
The online series will be held April 7, 14, 21
and 28, from 6-7:30 p.m. (PST). The cost is $270
($243 for Fishtrappers — join the club at www.
fi shtrap.org/be-a-fi shtrapper) and covers all four
sessions.
Fishtrap describes the workshop this way:
“The dual catastrophes of the pandemic and
climate change has brought our collective ex-
periences of nature and the natural world into
sharp focus. How do we create a sense of place
and how do we use the natural world as ground
for refl ection?
In this workshop, we examine the fertile
ground beneath our feet as the container for the
stories we have to tell, whether they be fi ction,
poetry or nonfi ction.”
Students will have weekly “nature work”
assignments and should plan to spend time
writing each week.
For more details and to register, go to www.
fi shtrap.org/workshop-auvinen-apr-2021.
KAREN AUVINEN
is an award-winning
poet, mountain
woman, life-long
Westerner, writer
and the author of
the memoir “Rough
Beauty” (Scribner),
fi nalist for the
Colorado Book Award
and the Willa Award.
Her work has ap-
peared in The New
York Times, LitHub,
Real Simple, West-
word, The Colorado Sun and numerous literary journals. She earned an MA in poetry from the
University of Colorado under the mentorship of Lucia Berlin and a PhD in fi ction from the University
of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.
Karen teaches writing workshops at Lighthouse Writers Workshops and fi lm, pop culture and
storytelling to fi rst-years at Colorado University in Boulder. Past gigs include Writer-in-Residence for
the State of Colorado, editor, book-buyer, rural postal route driver, caterer, clinic assistant, land-
scaper, summer camp director and guest chef.
She lives in the Colorado mountains with the artist Greg Marquez, their dog, River, and Dottie the
Cat. Find more at www.karenauvinen.com.
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