During the summer months the Provincetown waterfront is rife with artists-- alone or in groups, settled in with sketchbooks or standing at easels--recording the abundant life around them. In this writing workshop we will join the ranks of artists who traverse the harbor with notebooks in hand, sketching in language the images our visual counterparts may capture in graphite or paint. Participants should come equipped to spend a couple of hours outside: portable notebooks, sunscreen, hats, and comfortable shoes.
here are shifty-voiced boys in red boats calling to each other just beyond the glass, as close as if they were in my house, like buoys in their baggy shorts otherwise free of constraint, names and insults and warnings luffing through the dampened air. There is nothing at all harsh about the day, a modicum of sun, the whale boats headed out on their daily shifts of searching. Show us something mysterious and intelligent and bigger than us that we have the good sense to try and protect. Let us feel our own attempt at protection. Let us feel, for the moment, hopeful. – Melanie Braverman
	Melanie Braverman is the author of the novel East Justice (Permanent Press, 1996), and a collection of poems, Red (Perugia Press, 2002). She teaches Creative Writing at Brandeis University and lives year-round in Provincetown with her partner and their two small children.