Our February General Meeting will be a Potluck Lunch Meeting, Tuesday, February 20 @ 11:30am at the White Mountain Library (2935 Sweetwater Dr, Rock Springs)
Poet and essayist Barbara Smith will be our guest speaker. She is a professor emeritus at Western Wyoming Community College who has done writing workshops and classes with topics of memoir writing classes.
Come join us and get a glimpse of what we are doing for our community.
Barbara Smith is professor emeritus at Western Wyoming Community College. Her poetry and essays have been published in collections such as Wyoming Fence Lines, Deep West, A Literary Tour of Wyoming, Leaning Into the Wind, Woven on the Wind, Crazy Woman Creek, The Last Best Place, Ucross: the 1st Ten Years, Letters from Wyoming, and Drive, Smith received the Neltje Blanchan Memorial Writing award for nature writing in 2008, the Wyoming Governor’s Arts Award in 2006, the Wyoming Arts Council Literary Fellowship in 1990, and a residency at Ucross. A graduate of Montana State University and the University of South Dakota, Smith taught English and creative writing at WWCC for 38 years, also serving as chair of the Humanities Division for 17 years. For many years, Smith has been teaching a memoir writing workshop with WWCC for the Sweetwater County community. Also in collaboration with publisher Holly Dabb of the DailyRocket Miner, she and her students have published a series of memoirs each Sunday in the “Remember When” section of the newspaper.
