October 20, 2005, 1PM   4 hours
A Writing Exploration Workshop
Hood River County Library
502 State St
Hood River, OR
541-387-5031

You know what you want to say, but you don't know how to say it in a way that doesn't feel trite. The first words are the key to the door, but then what? In my experience, the electric part of a phrase is connected to an image that you hold somewhere in mind. Why say 'how' you feel, when in truth, there's probably an image that recreates the feeling that you want to express? Why say, for instance, "my heart feels cold," when you could start a song with: "I'm sitting by the only creek for miles, the water moving slower and slower and freezing in mid-air..." If this process is of interest to you in your work, please join me for a writing exploration workshop.

$65/$75

Ferron has been writing lyrics since childhood. She left home at 15 to work and to develop the music that was growing inside her. As she performed, she continually put her heart on the line. By the time Rolling Stone had given Shadows on a Dime a 4-star rating, she had already gained a nearly fanatical following. Ferron's deeply introspective, sometimes oblique lyrics and the hushed, splintered grain of her voice invited comparisons with Bob Dylan. The Boston Globe claimed that "someday, they will call Dylan the Ferron of the '60s." With 10 CDs to her credit, Ferron sings her poems in a style that combines an exploration of life's essential matters with the tenderness of unbounded love. Her songs are inspired from her desire to have a shared reality. She toured with the Indigo Girls on and off from 1990 to 1996, yet she's remained something less than a household name, but something more than a legend.

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