ruth schwartz – Orangette https://orangette.net Fri, 11 Dec 2015 00:05:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 I got to go back https://orangette.net/2014/11/i-got-to-go-back/ https://orangette.net/2014/11/i-got-to-go-back/#comments Thu, 06 Nov 2014 23:40:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2014/11/06/i-got-to-go-back The first time I went to the Oklahoma Arts Institute at Quartz Mountain was in the summer of 1995, a few months after a fire destroyed the lodge, its rooms and dining hall and library. I was sixteen, one of about a dozen high school students from across the state who’d been accepted to the summer program in poetry.  Quartz Mountain is beautiful, an isolated chain of red crags along a lake in the southwest part of the state, but my introduction wasn’t poetic: because the library was gone, our class met in a trailer, with a limping air conditioner, folding tables, and a couple of electric typewriters that we shared. But our teacher was the poet Peter Fortunato, brought…

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