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Summer On the Wing
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Words With Wings 2010 ...
has flown. 50 kids, two weeks, many pages of stories and poems. Thank you, Sheryl, Alex, and Robert. Thank you, Hannah and Elise. Thank you, University of Montana and
Watershed Education Network.
Thank you, Montana Museum of Art and Culture.
Thank you, 50 kids.
We will watch for your return.
Unknown Fish Life by Karlee Trebesch
How do you
hear us
coming?
When you swim
and hide
what is the place
that makes you
feel safe?
Some of you are endangered
yet you swim
with your tail
held high.
A
note from Sheryl --
This year's camp was the best! Some of our
students returned for their fifth year. Thank you, parents, for giving
your child's imagination a chance to grow and be appreciated. I hope to
see many of you next year and continue our great love for poetry.
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2010-11 Residencies
| The Missoula Writing Collaborative will have residencies this year at the following schools:
Missoula --
Big Sky High School, Hellgate Middle School, Rattlesnake School, Paxson School, Hawthorne School, Russell School, and Desmet School.
Beyond --
Arlee School, Lone Rock School, Two Eagle River School, Ovando School, Hydaburg School in Hydaburg, Alaska,
and Central and Smith Schools in Helena, Montana.
We teach kids to love to write!
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Kids Get Published
| Congratulations to Marquette Patterson and Laura Peele from Hydaburg School, Hydaburg, Alaska, whose poem "Mother's Warning" won the Chief Charlo Celebration of Culture Award in Aerie International 2010. MWC resident writer Robert Lee recently began teaching a third, annual short-term residency in Hydaburg.
The following students from MWC 2009-10 residency schools were published in the latest issue of Signatures from Big Sky -- Montana's Student Literary/Art Magazine:
Madeline Swanberg, Zia Kloetzel, Alan Gilchrist
(Ovando School, MWC resident writer Robert Lee)
Martina Rowley, William Fristo, Ellie Bardsley
(Lowell School, MWC resident writer Robert Lee)
Evie Tiplady, Jack Emerson, Mikkell Hedgpeth
(Lone Rock School, MWC resident writer Marnie Prange)
Faith Thayer (Chief Charlo School, MWC resident writer Marnie Prange)
Alexis Hagestad and James Keller, Big Sky High School
(MWC Resident Writers David Cates and Robert Lee)
Haley Manska and Evelyn Randles, Helena Central
(MWC Resident Writer Caroline Patterson)
Ocean Waves (a borrowed lines poem)
by Martina Rowley, fourth grade, Lowell School
Riding on the killer whale. Everything
here is new and slippery. Much of what
is said here must be said twice. Emotion
is to be found in clouds. In clouds of morning,
the evening is flowing. The clouds and stars
didn't wage this war.
All those I remember passed through my hands
like clouds. I knelt knee-deep in the dream
under water. I looked through the wet window
looking at the world around me. Beautiful.
The mountain opens at night when waves fly.
Swaying sea plants make the water move. Some
say life comes from wind. I say it comes
from water.
The whale's heart fills the water with love.
The house on the bottom of the ocean floor
is still for sale. I experience water
when I ride the killer whale.
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News & Events
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MWC Writers Produce!
Jeremy Smith is the proud father of Rasa Slyvia Smith, who was born August 4th. And Jeremy's book Growing a Garden City, about building community through local food, farms, and gardens, comes out October 6th, from Skyhorse Publishing, distributed by W. W. Norton. For more info on both go to: http://jeremynsmith.com
Chris Dombrowski's new little girl is Lily Mae, smiling wildly as she enters her third month. Chris's By Cold Water was published in 2009 by Wayne State University Press.
Congratulations to David Cates, recipient of a 2010 Artist's Innovation Award from the Montana Arts Council. Dave's story "Rubber Boy," was listed as a Notable in the 2010 Best American Short Stories. You can read it here: Rubber Boy
Jennifer Greene's new book is What Lasts, published by Foothills Publishing. To learn more and order online go to www.foothillspublishing.com
From What Lasts --
Strawberries
We picked strawberries as the sun set.
My kids used purple and pink pails
left over from Easter for the berries.
The baby's hand took berries from branches
to his lips as we stooped and kneeled,
leisurely in the messy dense rows.
One of my grandmothers told me she ran
away from home as a girl, and picked
strawberries for 25 cents a day.
My other grandmother and I walked along
a dirt road when I was a girl, and we found,
picked and ate wild strawberries.
She said she also liked wild onions, and I didn't
know strawberries or onions could be wild. I didn't know lots of things don't need humans to ripen.
Adios!
Claire Hibbs-Cheff has left the MWC to take a fulltime teaching job at Ronan High School. Her residency at Arlee Schools will be filled by the peripatetic Robert Lee.
Deborah Slicer is taking a one year sabbatical from Hawthorne School to attend to her demanding job as chair of the University of Montana Philosophy Department. The competent and seasoned Mark Gibbons will teach at Hawthorne.
Welcome!
To Smith School in Helena. Thanks to the great work of volunteer Anne Bauer (who secured funding from the Montana Arts Council) and the well-earned reputation of resident writer Caroline Patterson, we now have two residencies in Helena.
Missoula Writing Collaborative at the Bookfest
Watch for news of our panel at the 2010 Montana Festival of the Book. It's titled --
"Do We Have to Wait Until You're Done Talking, Or Can We Start Writing When We See You Come In the Door?"
It's about -- you got it -- teaching kids to love to write.
And come to our Bookfest Pre-Fest --
5-7 p.m., Thursday, October 28
Fact and Fiction on Higgins
Meet MWC writers, buy their books, drink some wine, read some kid's poems, eat some cheese, carry on...
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Thanks from all of us at the Missoula Writing Collaborative. Have a lovely fall.
MWC, P.O. Box 9237, Missoula, MT 59807
www.missoulawritingcollaborative.org
406-549-3348
Megan McNamer, Executive Director
Sheryl Noethe, Artistic Director
Jason Neal, Board President
Margie Goodburn, VP
Lois Welch, Treasurer
Jane Duncan, Secretary
Tom Berninghausen
Robin Hamilton
Catherine Jones
Cindy Smith (member emerita and member in waiting)
Linda Whittlesey
Make a DONATION
Thanks.
www.missoulawritingcollaborative.org
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