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Well, this is an interesting question. Exciting, in a way. Marvin Bell is doing a week-long poetry workshop with PSU's summer arts program, Haystack, which takes place in Cannon Beach. His week is in July, and I would have to get time off from work, plus pay a fair amount of money.
The money is doable. The time off may or may not be, I will check with my boss tomorrow (but not formally claim it yet). What I'm trying to figure out is, do I want this?
It's been a while since I've really worked on my poetry, other than writing down the bits that will not leave me alone until written down and occasionally dabbling through old notebooks. I'm excited at the very idea. But there's time and effort and money involved, and while I adored Marvin Bell's poetry in college - I didn't like his then-new style, such as the Dead Man poems. I liked his older works. So I'm not sure if this is a good idea on that count.
He's not just a poet, he's a teacher who teaches normally, not just occasionally, though I've no idea if he's viewed as a good one by his students (though I think I could ask some folks and find out!). And I'd be at the beach, and it's three hours a day plus writing poetry but that would surely leave me time also for non-poetic wandering as well as the poetic sort.... There's a place I could stay 9 miles away for only $22 a night.
It's utterly doable, if the vacation part is doable. And if the vacation part is doable, then I have to figure out if I want to do it.
Also, these workshops may be cancelled up to a month beforehand if there is not enough enrollment to justify them. I would be a bit annoyed to take time off work and juggle stuff and have it cancelled, but it's not like I couldn't enjoy the coast anyway, even without the workshop, if that happened. Or like my boss would kill me if I cancelled a scheduled vacation, come to that. *wry*
The money is doable. The time off may or may not be, I will check with my boss tomorrow (but not formally claim it yet). What I'm trying to figure out is, do I want this?
It's been a while since I've really worked on my poetry, other than writing down the bits that will not leave me alone until written down and occasionally dabbling through old notebooks. I'm excited at the very idea. But there's time and effort and money involved, and while I adored Marvin Bell's poetry in college - I didn't like his then-new style, such as the Dead Man poems. I liked his older works. So I'm not sure if this is a good idea on that count.
He's not just a poet, he's a teacher who teaches normally, not just occasionally, though I've no idea if he's viewed as a good one by his students (though I think I could ask some folks and find out!). And I'd be at the beach, and it's three hours a day plus writing poetry but that would surely leave me time also for non-poetic wandering as well as the poetic sort.... There's a place I could stay 9 miles away for only $22 a night.
It's utterly doable, if the vacation part is doable. And if the vacation part is doable, then I have to figure out if I want to do it.
Also, these workshops may be cancelled up to a month beforehand if there is not enough enrollment to justify them. I would be a bit annoyed to take time off work and juggle stuff and have it cancelled, but it's not like I couldn't enjoy the coast anyway, even without the workshop, if that happened. Or like my boss would kill me if I cancelled a scheduled vacation, come to that. *wry*
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