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Judith Roche
Judith Roche
Although born a city girl, Judith Roche has always had a deep love for the land. This love has permeated her work, which has been published in The Seattle Times, the American Voice, and the Crab Creek Review, among others. She has been the recipient of many awards, including a 1998 and 2007 American Book Award, a Seattle University Distinguished Northwest Writer Award, and a Golden Umbrella Award. A nature enthusiast, Judith has a passion for the importance of salmon to human populations; she has edited an anthology on Pacific Rim salmon and participated in a public art project responding to the plight of endangered salmon in the Pacific Northwest. For 30 years, Judith has taught a variety of students from incarcerated youth to college students and adults, and passionately believes that art saves lives.
The Poetics of Place--Expressing Your Sense of Place through Poetry (Workshop)
While many appreciate the beauty of a good poem, few of us are able to grasp the difficult process of writing poetry. In this hands-on poetry-writing workshop, award-winning published poet Judith Roche will offer her extensive experiences reading, writing, and teaching poetry. Participants will learn to express the “feel” of their natural surroundings – whether they are the lush farms of the Palouse or the evergreen forests of the Olympic Peninsula – and learn the building blocks for successful poetry writing. Judith will help build skills to use memories, experiences, and sense of place as a basis for writing poems. To enlighten and inspire participants to the expressive nature of poetry, she will also offer examples of her own work and that of local poets.
Contact Judith at (206) 329-4687 or by email. She currently lives in Seattle, WA.
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