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Session 4

Contemporary Poetry: A Conversation with Marvin Bell

Wednesdays: February 20, 27, March 12, 19 (No class on March 5)
Time: 2:30 - 4:20 p.m.
Where: Room E105 Seashore Hall
Registration deadline: February 6
Class limit: 55

The text for this class is Marvin Bell's current book of poetry, Mars Being Red. The author will use it to discuss the poetry writing process, including, but not limited to, the always controversial subject of political events embedded in poetry. He may add "political" poems by others and some new poems of his own to extend the discussion.

INSTRUCTOR: Recently retired from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Marvin Bell teaches for the low-residency MFA program based at Pacific University in Oregon and leads an annual Urban Teachers Workshop for America SCORES. The most recent of his 19 books is Mars Being Red. He has been described as "ambitious without pretension." Mr. Bell lives in Iowa City and Port Townsend, Washington. From 2000 to 2004, he served as Iowa's first poet laureate.

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