http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Sheila+Bender Writing Sheila Bender Mon, 11 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=74641&ca=Writing What is Abantu? Years ago during a summer writing workshop at Centrum Foundation in Port Townsend, WA, poet Robert Hass (who went on to serve as a recent U.S. Poet Laureate) taught students a short couplet form that he had read was an oral tradition among the Abantu people of Africa. In class, he re...