2025 WE Ignite Speaker
Marie Marchand
Marie Marchand is the Inaugural Poet Laureate of Ellensburg and the author of Gifts to the Attentive and the forthcoming Mostly Sweet, Lovely, Human Things. She is a graduate of Naropa University and The Iliff School of Theology where she studied psychology, religion, and peacemaking. Marie is a former executive director of Friendship House and a proud Leadership Skagit alum.Contact
Presentation Info
What does poetry teach us about living? How can reading and writing poetry help us identify our thresholds and the possibilities on the opposite side of our edges? In this session, Inaugural Ellensburg Poet Laureate Marie Marchand will guide participants through a generative exercise with blackout/erasure poetry as a doorway into poetry and the self.