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programs and university extension courses. I guess you could say I’ve had a passion for getting the arts out there — for building a community for the arts and of the arts — since I was in college. As a graduate student, I started a series of poetry and fiction readings and jam sessions in a local pub, and everywhere I’ve taught since then, I’ve helped start clubs for English majors, or writers’ clubs, or literary festivals, or whatever.
“Every spring I go into three to five Northern Virginia high schools to talk about poetry, and I regularly offer eight-week, non-academic classes at The Writers’ Center in Bethesda. And then, a great many of the people one meets and works with, at such groups as The Maine Writer’s Workshop or The Martha’s Vineyard Writers’ Workshop on Fiction — are folks who like to write poetry without necessarily knowing a great deal about it. So we spend a lot of very enjoyable time discussing the things we’ve all read, not just the writing of the participants.
“You know, I think everyone writes ‘poetry’ — or speaks it, or hears it — at various times in their lives. The poetry might be a letter, or a diary entry , or something heard over the phone, or a scrap of school notebook paper with some notes from biology class, but also some notes which just happened to be written on the day baby sister was born, or Fido was hit by a car.
“What I mean is that we all have words which mean a great deal to us
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