Except by Nature, was chosen for this National Poetry Series and received the Academy of American Poets James Laughlin Award, the 1999 Pacific Northwest Booksellers' William Stafford Poetry Award. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Orion, The Paris Review, Poetrys, and The Push Cart Series. Alcosser codirect the MFA Program in Creative Writing at San Diego State University. This includes instruction. Friday and Saturday lodging, and meals .
Partial scholarships are available for educators.
Registration is limited to 35 participants. Our four day, three night river trip follows. The program concludes with a dinner, wrap-up and motel stay the last night back in Grand Junction. Scott Russell Sanders is the author of over twenty books of fiction such as The Paradise of Bombs, Staying Put, and Writing from the Center. He joined Indiana University in 1971, and became a Distinguished Professor in 1996.