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MIXED MEDIUM
THE ARTS AROUND
EASTERN OREGON
FEBRUARY 16�23, 2022
Fishtrap hosts writing workshops this spring
Go! staff
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NTERPRISE — Fishtrap be-
gins a new season of online
workshops starting in March.
Register at www.fi shtrap.org.
Here’s a look at this spring’s
schedule.
EPHEMERAL MOMENTS
THAT ENDURE
In March, Fishtrap presents
“an online micro essay work-
shop,” led by E.M. “Lizzie” Sloan.
The workshop will take place
at 6-7:30 p.m. for four con-
secutive Wednesdays beginning
March 9. Registration is $180, or
$160 for Fishtrappers.
The Fishtrap website describes
it this way: In the vein of fl ash/
micro/brevity nonfi ction, this
workshop will play with isolated
scenes that you fi nd are buried
deep in the recesses of your mind,
your heart, your soul. Dig into the
hollows and bring to light those
hidden fl ickers of memory/expe-
rience. Participants will dip into
the popular topic of nostalgia by
enlivening senses through writing
prompts of ephemeral moments.
RECIPES FROM POEMS
WE LOVE
Beginning April 2, Nellie
Lizzie Sloan
Bridge will lead an online poetry
workshop on four Saturdays,
11 a.m.-1 p.m. Registration is
$240, or $215 for Fishtrappers.
This generative poetry work-
shop takes as its starting point
the appreciation, wonder and
beauty in poems you love. Every-
one in this workshop will bring an
inspiring poem to share and use
some part of it (structure, voice,
occasion, style, device) to craft a
poem of their own. Participants
will create recipes for poems
together, discuss a poem’s parts
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Nellie Bridge
and write freely with a goal to
create fi ve or more new poems
during the class.
TWO IDEAS: GRAPPLING
WITH PARADOX AND
TENSION IN PERSONAL
ESSAY AND MEMOIR
This online workshop with
Catherine Johnson will meet
for four Wednesdays, begin-
ning May 4, from 6-8 p.m.
Catherine Johnson
Registration $240, or $215 for
Fishtrappers.
In James Baldwin’s essay
“Notes of a Native Son” he wrote:
“It began to seem that one would
have to hold in the mind forever
two ideas which seemed to be in
opposition.” As one of the great-
est essayists of the twentieth
century, Baldwin was a master
at grappling with paradox and
complexity, while resisting easy,
neat answers. In this workshop,
participants will examine the es-
say as a natural vehicle for this
kind of intellectual and emotion-
al work, both by reading other
writers who do this masterfully,
and looking for opportunities to
do this in personal writing. Par-
ticipants can share their writing
at any stage (or just benefi t from
the conversation and in-class
writing prompts).
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