This week we were visited by Sherwin Bitsui for an afternoon discussion and reading. You can find more information and his website here. He is a nationally famous poet that is in La Conner for the biennial Skagit River Poetry Festival. In a roundtable format, he read us some of his work and we did poetry writing exercises with him exploring sound and our stories. We had great discussions about language, culture and the connections between poetry, place and identity. We are grateful that he was able to join us and we recommend his two books of poetry, Shapeshift and Flood Song.
This week we do not have class on Thursday since there is a Blessing of the Fleet ceremony. We have sun for this event and it is a beautiful blue sky day! You can learn more about it here.