Genre: Poetry

WriterCon

WriterCon 2023 was held from September 1 to September 4 at the Renaissance Waterford Hotel in Oklahoma City. The conference featured over 70 presentations from more than 60 authors, editors, agents, and publishers, opportunities for pitching and private consultations, manuscript review, workshops, master classes, and open mics for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. The faculty included poet and novelist William Bernhardt, fiction writer Rilla Askew, and nonfiction writer Barry Friedman.

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CONFERENCE
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yes
Event Date: 
April 17, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
April 17, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
April 17, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

WriterCon, 12600 W. Glen Court, Choctaw OK 73020. (405) 203-8641. William Bernhardt, Director.

Contact City: 
Oklahoma City
Contact State: 
OK
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
73020
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US

Franconia Sculpture Park Writers Residency

Franconia Sculpture Park offers eight residencies of two weeks in January and October to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at an outdoor sculpture park located in the St. Croix River Valley, in Shafer, Minnesota. Residents are provided with a private bedroom within a communal farmhouse, a shared office space, access to walking trails, airport pickup and drop-off, and a $1,000 stipend.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
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no
Event Date: 
January 10, 2024
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
April 17, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
April 17, 2025
Free Admission: 
yes
Contact Information: 

Franconia Sculpture Park Writers Residency, 29836 St. Croix Trail, Shafer, MN 55074. (651) 257-6668.

Contact City: 
Shafer
Contact State: 
MN
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
55074
Country: 
US

Roger Robinson: The City Kids See the Sea

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“For many the first time; / these kids of the tower block / and tarred playgrounds / now running towards this scene / of sea,” reads Roger Robinson from his poem “The City Kids See the Sea” in this short film directed by Matthew Thompson and produced by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation for their Read By poetry film series.

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Limits

In this week’s installment of our Craft Capsules series, poet Trevor Ketner writes about setting specific parameters and inventing methods to guide their writing. For their first book, [WHITE] (University of Georgia Press, 2021), Ketner based a series of poems on the major arcana cards of the tarot: “Because the major arcana comprises twenty-two cards, I wrote twenty-two poems of twenty-two lines each,” says Ketner. Inspired by Ketner’s use of invented forms, choose a number significant to you and write a poem limited to that number of lines. Will having a set structure surprise you with the freedom to push your language?

Will Alexander on Intuition

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“[The Congo] is the heartbeat of the world, and it’s never recognized as a central heartbeat,” says Will Alexander about the focus of his most recent collection, Refractive Africa (New Directions, 2021), a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in poetry, in this Poetry.LA interview with Douglas Manuel about the intuition he follows for his writing. “I’m not colonized by cognitive expertise,” says Alexander.

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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

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In celebration of Walt Whitman’s bicentennial birthday on May 31 of 2019, Brooklyn residents—including Mahogany L. Browne, Jason Koo, Gregory Pardlo, Ben Purkert, and Brooklyn poet laureate Tina Chang—recite his 1856 poem “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” from Leaves of Grass in various neighborhoods and libraries throughout the borough. This video was produced by the Brooklyn Public Library.

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