Bonnie Proudfoot will present a creative writing workshop based on the idea that reading poetry can become a springboard for writing poetry. Students will begin by writing a “found” poem in an ancient form, the Cento, and if time allows, the class will also explore a new form, the Golden Shovel poem. Open to adults, college students, and teens.

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Bonnie Proudfoot moved to the Appalachian region in 1979 and has lived there since, teaching for many years at Hocking College in Nelsonville, Ohio. She is a fiction writer, a poet, and a glass artist. Her first book, Goshen Road, was selected for the Women’s National Book Association’s Great Group’s Read program and longlisted for the 2021 PEN/Hemingway Award for best debut novel. Her first book of poems, Household Gods, is forthcoming this month on Sheila Na Gig Press.