Faith Shearin Writing Exercises & Consultation Opportunity

A Special Offer in Partnership with ONE ART: a journal of poetry

I want to share a few of my favorite poems by Faith that I’ve collected over the years.

Shackleton’s Decision

My Grandparents’ Generation

The Sound of a Train

Natural Disasters

Retired

Blessing of the Animals

The Dog Watched Television

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Faith Shearin’s seven books of poetry include: The Owl Question (May Swenson Award), Telling the Bees (SFA University Press), Orpheus, Turning (Dogfish Poetry Prize), Darwin’s Daughter (SFA University Press), and Lost Language (Press 53). Her poems have been read aloud on The Writer’s Almanac and included in American Life in Poetry. She has received awards from Yaddo, The National Endowment for the Arts, and The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her essays and short stories have won awards from New Ohio Review, The Missouri Review, The Florida Review, and Literal Latte, among others. Two YA novels — Lost River, 1918 and My Sister Lives in the Sea — won The Global Fiction Prize, judged by Anthony McGowan, and have been published by Leapfrog Press.

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Faith has been amazingly generous and given us a packet of 30 Writing Exercises to sell as part of ONE ART’s fundraising campaign. This 39-page document (PDF) offers a wide range of inspiration! The packet is being sold for $50.

But wait, there’s more! As an added bonus, those who buy the packet have an opportunity to work 1-on-1 with Faith later this summer (after 8/15).

How does this work? If you buy the packet, you can share 3-4 poems with Faith via email or snail mail for the price of $15 per poem.

This is a rare opportunity to receive personalized feedback from a prominent contemporary poet.

Details here.

Payment options here.

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Reach out to Mark Danowsky at oneartpoetry@gmail.com with questions or to be added to the list of those who wish to work 1-on-1 with Faith later this summer.

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