Come learn how you can deepen your relationship to language, hush your inner critic, activate your imagination, and cultivate a meaningful and regular writing practice. This lively presentation will inspire you to reconsider the nature of curiosity, creativity, opportunity and your working relationship to words. Led by award winning poet, syndicated newspaper columnist, essayist, and poet laureate of the Western Slope,
Wendy Videlock.
Speaker Bio
Wendy Videlock lives on the edge of a canyon in Palisade, where the peaches grow in abundance and the vineyards stretch across the valley. Her syndicated newspaper column appears across the four-corner states. Wendy teaches and advocates for the arts in schools and public spaces. Her essays and poems appear most notably in The New York Times, Poetry Magazine, Hudson Review, O Magazine, Best American Poetry and Rattle. Her books of poems and essays are available wherever books are sold and her art is featured in galleries across the Grand Valley.Wendy believes that the arts and humanities might just be the answer to all that ails us. She currently serves as poet laureate of Western Colorado. For more, visit this link.