To foster the arts and crafts by providing a wide range of instruction for adults and children. Castle Hill holds exhibitions, lectures, forums, concerts and other similar activities in order to promote social interaction among artists, craftsmen, laymen, and the community at large.

Dorianne Laux, Workshop Description

Dave Smith says it's a sharp, memorable, confident use of language which releases feeling, and keeps releasing it with repeated readings. Naomi Shihab Nye says for her it is Love and care for elemental details, for chosen words and their simple arrangement on the page... and a way of ending that leaves a new resonance or a lit spark in the reader or listener's mind. This workshop/study group will consist of reading the work of established poets, creating new drafts, and working with already produced poems. I'll be using selections from The 2005 Pushcart Prize, XXIX. If you'd like to find a copy and bring it in, do, though ‘Ill have copies for our use in class. We will take a close look at these prize-winning poems and seek to understand what makes them memorable. We will practice imitation as a striving toward writing our own unforgettable poems with daily in-class free-writes and take home exercises.

Contact: "Cherie Mittenthal" for more information