Writing
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DT-I could write a book: writing and publishing.10:00AM
Date: August 06, 2025 6:00 pm - August 20, 2025 7:30 pm
Location: Phoenix Center For The Arts
Available Slots: 20/20
Description: How I could write a book, whether life story, memoir, biography, genealogy or letters, in the light that letters are no longer written and texts unpreserved, emails are lost in the telling, but not confined to these, including any writing, in journals or recipe books that might be kept. This is not a workshop but a discussion of available options to publish in internet mags, in print mags and in book form, shown here to be without cost and available to anyone who chooses beyond the offering of vanity presses to make some work available to some audience of their choosing. Inspiration offered on the way. The class will take a two week break after the third class, to return 10 September and 17 September to consider whatever ruminations have been dreamed.
Materials: pen and paper
Prerequisite: no experience required
Duration: 3 weeks
Ages: All ages welcome
Cost: $50.00
Introduction to Wilderness: The Native and the Primitive
Date: September 02, 2025 6:00 pm - September 16, 2025 7:30 pm
Location: Phoenix Center For The Arts
Available Slots: 20/20
Description: Meditations of native, primitive background aesthetics and philosophy in no particular order out of, but not limited to, selected examples of Navajo, Cree, Abenaki, Pueblo ideas offered by Ken Morrison's The Embattled Northeast; in Rainbird art, traversing desert and mountain lands, in Scott Momaday's Rainy Mountain, Howard Norman's Cree books; Barry Lopez, Wolverine, River Notes; Ed Abbey, Desert Solitaire, Charles Bowden's, Trinity, Exodus, Blue Desert; Perry Miller, Into the Wilderness, Charles Olson, Call Me Ishmael, Heriberto Yepez, Empire of Neomemory. This is merely an introduction.
Materials: Pencil and paper
Prerequisite: no experience required
Duration: 3 weeks
Ages: All ages welcome
Cost: $50.00