Confluence: A Reading from the River on 9/26/24

Thursday, September 26th 6-7pm MST.
On Zoom. (Sign up before 5pm on the 26th to receive the link.)
Everyone is invited! Join us for the sheer pleasure of listening!

Our Program
We'll open with a reading by guest poet Olivia Dudding Rodriguez.
Then the following River Writers will read short excerpts from our notebooks:
Karen Bean
Sam Forlenza
Beatrice Washburn
Moudi Sbeity
Jasmine Hennigs-Cornell
Beth Mitchell
Karen Bayard
Jeanette Snyder
Lizz Carroll
Nan Seymour

About Our Poet
Olivia Dudding Rodriguez is an Appalachian-grown writer, poet, teaching artist, and devoted celebrant of rurality and place-based identity.  She is the poet laureate of Helper, Utah and author of Honey Wonder, a poetry chapbook published by Moon in the Rye Press.  She is a co-facilitator, alumni in residence, and culture keeper at The Heart of It writing retreat.  In 2023, she contributed to a panel on Encountering the Wild at the Utah Poetry Festival.  

About River Writing
We write together in circles shaped by community agreements. This is the practice: we read poetry aloud to find a prompt and then write with pen and paper to say the truest thing we can say. Before beginning, we agree to be kind, to keep each other’s confidence, and to listen to each other with undivided attention. We agree to take care of ourselves and to share responsibility for creating a welcoming space. Everyone is invited. We practice non-judgement by forgoing apology, critique, and praise. It can be hard not to praise, but we choose to opt out temporarily in order to take respite from the culture of comparison. When a participant chooses to read, we respond simply by saying thank you.