Retreat Registration Deadline: September 15
 | We are happy to announce that Traci Brimhall will be joining us on Friday for the opening of our writing retreat! "Play is Our First Prophet" Traci will talk about the delights of play to spark creativity and turn off our internal editors. She will lead a generative writing exercise and offer tips for engaging your playful side during the retreat. |
Traci Brimhall is a professor of creative writing and narrative medicine at Kansas State University. She is the author of four collections of poetry, and her next book, Love Prodigal, will be out in 2024. Her poems have appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, The Nation, The New Republic, Poetry, The New York Times Magazine, and Best American Poetry. She’s received fellowships from National Endowment for the Arts, the National Parks Service, and Purdue Library’s Special Collections to study the lost poem drafts of Amelia Earhart. She’s the current poet laureate for the State of Kansas.
