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J e f f  F e a r n s i d e

WRITER

“These are what I see here every day,
not things but relationships of things,
quick changes and slow. These are my sorrow,
for unlike my bright admonitory friends
I see relationships, I do not see things.
These, such as they are, every day, every
unique day, the first time and the last,
are my thoughts, the sequences of my mind.
I wonder what they mean. Every day,
day after day, I wonder what they mean.”

Hayden Carruth, from “The Ravine” in Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991, Copper Canyon Press, 1992


At the Taklamakan (Go-in-and-you-won’t-come-out) Desert

 

*NEW* I’ve had two prose poems published by Protestpoems.org (read more)…

 

In everything I do, from writing to teaching to traveling, I try to see the relationships between things. It’s in that space between what we see, in the currents that run through that space, where life is most alive.

I’ve been fortunate to have my writing recognized nationally several times, most recently in my being named a 2007 Dorothy Norton Clay Fellow at the Mary Anderson Center for the Arts in Mount St. Francis, Indiana.

As a teacher, I’ve worked with talented students and colleagues in Eastern Washington University’s innovative Writers in the Community project; at Washington State University; at the Academy of Languages in Shymkent, Kazakhstan; at Western Kentucky University; and currently at Prescott College in Prescott, Arizona .

During the four years I lived and worked in Central Asia (click here for a map), I experienced thousands of years of history in my travels along the Great Silk Road in China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan.

Please follow the links above or below to find information on all of this, to explore Asia through my photo travelogue, to contact me regarding workshops and readings, and much more. You may want to bookmark this site, as I plan to update current material and add new material every month. Also, check my News page for noteworthy items and upcoming events. Thanks for visiting, and feel free to return often.

Jeff Fearnside

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