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The contemporary creative writing class in fiction,

non-fiction, or poetry, AKA the "workshop," evolved in

MFA programs introduced to U.S. universities after World War II, and today the majority of accomplished, successful literary novelists, short fiction writers and poets were influenced by the workshop process. But the poetry "workshop" in which the poem under discussion is reviewed and discussed by students and poet-teachers remains controversial to some readers and a mystery to others. This may be the first book exploring the craft of poetry that combines observations and analyses of...

Poems "funny, stark, spot-on and utterly beautiful" comprise her collection, "Our Foreigner," "a brilliant and dark comedy." This is Betsy Sholl' s apt description for the poetry of Nance Van Winckel, one of the Northwest's foremost poets and writers, and her latest release-from The Pacific Coast Poetry Series/Beyond Baroque Books. Van Winckel's own relatives traveled west enduring the hardship and tests of character that confronted those who made such treks in the 1800's. "Our Foreigner" explores, among other conditions and anomalies, ideas of journey, progress and regress, travel both...