Foothills Writers Series

FOOTHILLS WRITERS SERIES, WINTER 2012 The Foothills Writers Series presents international, national, regional, and local writers reading their own works. For over 36 years, this series has been a fine slate of writers to the Peninsula to pique your interest and keep you reading and writing so please join us. Readings are free and open to the public. Held in the Maier Performance Hall from 12:35 to 1:25 pm unless otherwise noted.

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2012 Sarah Zale, 12:30:00 PM, Maier Performance Hall (E Bldg) Sarah Zale, a Port Townsend-based poet, teacher and activist for peace education, will read from her works at Peninsula College’s Foothills Writers Series at 12:35 pm on Wednesday, January 25. The reading will be held in Maier Performance Hall. The January 25 reading marks a permanent shift in the regular Foothills programming schedule from Tuesday afternoons to Wednesday afternoons. The readings are also moving to the new Maier Performance Hall from the Little Theater, but as always, the readings remain free and open to the public. One of the works Zale will read from is a poetry collection that was released in 2010, entitled The Art of Folding. The book was inspired by her travels to Israel and Palestine with the Compassionate Listening Project. Zale teaches writing at Edmonds Community College and Shoreline Community College. One of the courses she teaches is “War as Myth, Identity, and Wound,” which is designed to encourage poetry and narratives to facilitate healing caused by war and conflict. As a teacher and a poet, she is committed to showing how art and poetry can create a dialogue about the important issues of our day—a dialogue that can hold both sides of an issue without engendering fear or anger. She holds master degrees in education, English literature, and Rhetoric & the Teaching of Writing, as well as an MFA in Creative Writing / Poetry from Goddard College, where she served as the editor-in-chief of Pitkin Review, Goddard’s literary journal.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2012 Kelli Russell Agodon, 12:30:00 PM, Maier Performance Hall (E bldg)

FRIDAY, MARCH 02, 2012 Liliana Ursa, 7:00:00 PM, PA Library, Raymond Carver Room

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 07, 2012 Katie Wirsing, 12:30:00 PM, Maier Performance Hall (E Bldg)

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 2012 Creative Writing Students, 12:30:00 PM, Maier Performance Hall (E Bldg)

This program has vigorously observed principles of equal opportunities, not discriminating on the basis of color, national origin, sex, or handicap. If you or someone you know might be interested in reading, please contact the co-directors. We encourage unestablished writers—of prose as well as of poetry—to apply.

We do not censor our readers in any way, and audience members may be offended by a reader’s language. Nevertheless, we feel this freedom of expression is necessary.