LITERARY ART
Poetry
Dan Levinson
Dan Zev Levinson’s main work is teaching poetry to as many as a thousand students each year. He is area coordinator, for California Poets in the Schools, of Humboldt, Trinity, and Del Norte counties and has taught at over seventy sites with this organization since 1998, including court and community schools. While most of his residencies are in Humboldt, he has also taught poetry in Del Norte, Mendocino, Siskiyou, and Santa Cruz counties, as well as in Australia. He has taught at Humboldt State University, College of the Redwoods, the Redwood Coast Writers' Center, and is a Redwood Writing Project teacher-consultant. He is a founder of The Lost Coast Writers Retreat, which he attends each summer. Being a freelance editor and writing consultant, Dan has acted as a contributing editor to various publications. His poems and other writings have appeared in many journals and anthologies.
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Storytelling
Paul Woodland
I first heard and felt the power of a well-told tale in 1989 while listening to master storyteller, Ed Stivender. Stivender’s skillful and comical telling of Sir Gawain and the Dame Ragnell was an inspiration. At last, I had found a creative outlet that spoke to me and gave me a voice.
Shortly thereafter, I enrolled in the Dominican College Certificate in Storytelling Program to study and practice the ancient art of storytelling. I completed the program in two years and graduated on Father’s Day, 1992. I honed my storytelling skills while working as a Park Ranger (Lake Sonoma), telling tales on the radio (KHSU), and through hundreds of public performances in classrooms, parks, and festivals.
I have a profound respect for the oral tradition and the tales that have been handed down through the years. It is my goal to find these precious tales that have been buried in books and to excavate them from their paper tomes, by breathing life back into them, and setting them free for others to hear and tell.
Dan Levinson
Dan Zev Levinson’s main work is teaching poetry to as many as a thousand students each year. He is area coordinator, for California Poets in the Schools, of Humboldt, Trinity, and Del Norte counties and has taught at over seventy sites with this organization since 1998, including court and community schools. While most of his residencies are in Humboldt, he has also taught poetry in Del Norte, Mendocino, Siskiyou, and Santa Cruz counties, as well as in Australia. He has taught at Humboldt State University, College of the Redwoods, the Redwood Coast Writers' Center, and is a Redwood Writing Project teacher-consultant. He is a founder of The Lost Coast Writers Retreat, which he attends each summer. Being a freelance editor and writing consultant, Dan has acted as a contributing editor to various publications. His poems and other writings have appeared in many journals and anthologies.
website link
Storytelling
Paul Woodland
I first heard and felt the power of a well-told tale in 1989 while listening to master storyteller, Ed Stivender. Stivender’s skillful and comical telling of Sir Gawain and the Dame Ragnell was an inspiration. At last, I had found a creative outlet that spoke to me and gave me a voice.
Shortly thereafter, I enrolled in the Dominican College Certificate in Storytelling Program to study and practice the ancient art of storytelling. I completed the program in two years and graduated on Father’s Day, 1992. I honed my storytelling skills while working as a Park Ranger (Lake Sonoma), telling tales on the radio (KHSU), and through hundreds of public performances in classrooms, parks, and festivals.
I have a profound respect for the oral tradition and the tales that have been handed down through the years. It is my goal to find these precious tales that have been buried in books and to excavate them from their paper tomes, by breathing life back into them, and setting them free for others to hear and tell.