“Poetry of Place” Writing Workshop
with Logan Garner
August 9 | 1:00pm – 4:00pm
Tuition $80
Hoffman Center for the Arts | 594 Laneda Avenue | Manzanita
Open to all levels of experience, this generative writing workshop will offer participants opportunity to engage in a short discussion and definition on poetry of place, examples of place-based poems from poets like Sam Hamill, Pattiann Rogers, and Raymond Carver, as well as prompts to inspire writing with an option to share and engage in uplifting feedback.
About the Instructor
Logan Garner is a place-based poet and nature writer from Oregon’s north coast. Drawing on a conservation background, spiritual upbringing and a lifelong love for living things, he writes to find the sacred in nature, be it on the scope of landscape, in the smallness of a moment or in the nook of a tree. He is the author of poetry collections Here, in the Floodplain (Plan B Press, 2023) and The Sin of Feeding Wild Birds (Broken Tribe Press, 2025), has been a recipient and judge of the Neahkahnie Mountain Poetry Prize contest as well as Silver Honorable Mention in the Writers of the Future Contest. His poems, stories and essays have appeared in several journals and anthologies, most recently the Stone Circle Review, in Pensive: A Global Journal for Spirituality and the Arts and in Oxford University’s Anthropocene. Logan earned his dual Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and STS from Butler University and is proud to be joining the MFA program at the University of British Columbia in the fall of 2025.
For more information, visit Logan’s website
Please direct any questions about this workshop to: [email protected]
Aug 9, 2025 – Poetry Writing Workshop – Main Room
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Situated on the main street in Manzanita just a few blocks west of Highway 101, the Hoffman Center is located across the street from the North Tillamook Library.
