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SparkTalks 2024, dynamic presentations that share the wisdom of Naropa University’s alumnx!
Tree Bernstein: Mistranslations in the Kingdom of Wonder: Something Like Patience
Tree Bernstein (MFA Writing & Poetics ’91) lived on a sugar beet farm in the Columbia Basin when she was a child. She earned an MFA in Writing & Poetics from Naropa University, and taught college English literature and writing at the Brooks Institute of Photography in California for over a decade. Bernstein was poet teacher with California Poets in the Schools and poetry coach for Poetry Out Loud in the early aughts. She joined the Peace Corps as a senior citizen to teach English and Art in Cambodia from 2015-17 and now lives in Longmont, Colorado, where she leads writing workshops in the community.
Learn more about Naropa's MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics degree program here: https://www.naropa.edu/programs/graduate-academics/mfa-creative-writing-poetics/
SparkTalks 2024, dynamic presentations that share the wisdom of Naropa University’s alumnx!
Tree Bernstein: Mistranslations in the Kingdom of Wonder: Something Like Patience
Tree Bernstein (MFA Writing & Poetics ’91) lived on a sugar beet farm in the Columbia Basin when she was a child. She earned an MFA in Writing & Poetics from Naropa University, and taught college English literature and writing at the Brooks Institute of Photography in California for over a decade. Bernstein was poet teacher with California Poets in the Schools and poetry coach for Poetry Out Loud in the early aughts. She joined the Peace Corps as a senior citizen to teach English and Art in Cambodia from 2015-17 and now lives in Longmont, Colorado, where she leads writing workshops in the community.
Learn more about Naropa's MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics degree program here: https://www.naropa.edu/programs/graduate-academics/mfa-creative-writing-poetics/
