Genre: Poetry

Orion Environmental Writers’ Workshop

March/April 2025

The Orion Environmental Writers’ Workshop will be held from June 15 to June 20 at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
June 15, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
May 1, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
April 25, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Orion Environmental Writers’ Workshop, 187 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA 01230. Kathleen Yale, Workshop Manager. 

Kathleen Yale
Workshop Manager 
Contact City: 
Rhinebeck
Contact State: 
NY
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
12572
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Tags: 
writing conferences

Poetry at Round Top Festival

March/April 2025

The 23rd annual Poetry at Round Top Festival will be held from April 25 to April 27 at the Round Top Festival Institute campus in Round Top, Texas. The program features workshops, readings, craft talks, open mics, panel discussions, and manuscript consultations. The faculty includes poets Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Hayan Charara, Mark Doty, Amanda Johnston, Joan Logghe, Cecily Parks, and Kim Stafford. Poets Katie Dozier and Timothy Green will be the workshop leaders. The cost of the conference is $150 ($50 for students) or $75 to attend only Saturday programming.

Type: 
FESTIVAL
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
April 25, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
April 25, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
April 25, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Poetry at Round Top Festival, Round Top Festival Institute, 248 Jaster Road, Round Top, TX 78954. (979) 249-3129. Katherine Durham Oldmixon Garza, Director. 

Katherine Durham Oldmixon Garza
Director
Contact City: 
Round Top
Contact State: 
TX
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
78954
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry

Poetry by the Sea: A Global Conference

March/April 2025

Poetry by the Sea: A Global Conference will be held from May 27 to May 30 at Mercy by the Sea, a retreat center and private beach in Madison, Connecticut. The conference features workshops, seminars, readings, and panels. The faculty includes poets Chad Abushanab, Austin Allen, Melissa Balmain, Oliver de la Paz, Anna M. Evans, David Groff, Didi Jackson, Major Jackson, David M. Katz, Joshua Mehigan, and Clare Rossini. Participating publishing professionals include editors Jennifer Franklin (Hudson Valley Writers Center) and Allison Joseph (Crab Orchard Review).

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
May 27, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
May 10, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
April 25, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Poetry by the Sea: A Global Conference, 63 Parry Drive, Hainesport, NJ 08036. (609) 346-5011. Anna M. Evans, Board President. 

Anna M. Evans
Board President
Contact City: 
Madison
Contact State: 
CT
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
06443
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry

Red Clay Writers Conference

March/April 2025

The 2025 Red Clay Writers Conference, sponsored by the Georgia Writers Association (GWA), will be held on April 26 at Kennesaw State University. The conference features writing workshops and panels on literary journals and publishing for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers. Participating writers include poets Andrea Jurjević and Joshua L. Martin and novelist and memoirist Garrard Conley. Participating publishing professionals include Kurt Milberger (Kennesaw State University) and Anna Sandy-Elrod (Ghost Peach Press).

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
April 26, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
April 18, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
yes
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
April 18, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Red Clay Writers Conference, Kennesaw State University, 440 Bartow Avenue, MD 2701, Kennesaw, GA 30144. Gregory Emilio, Executive Director. 

Gregory Emilio
Executive Director
Contact City: 
Kennesaw
Contact State: 
GA
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
30144
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Nobody’s Fool

The Time Is Now
2.18.25

In a recent video, Maggie Millner, Yale Review senior editor and author of Couplets: A Love Story (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023), speaks about her favorite love poems, including June Jordan’s short poem “Resolution #1,003,” which she says “illustrates the way that love between two people can inspire a politics, a kind of political vision.” Spend some time thinking about the relationships in your life and who might inspire in you a sort of political vision. Write a poem that captures how to “love who loves me” and “stay indifferent to indifference,” as Jordan writes in her poem. How might the circumstances, breadth, and boundaries of your adoration for someone be political?

Lit Fest

March/April 2025

The Lighthouse Writers Workshop’s 2025 Lit Fest will be held from June 6 to June 13 online and at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop headquarters in Denver. The festival features weekend and weeklong workshops, craft seminars, salons, business panels, and agent consultations for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. The faculty includes poets Eduardo C.

Type: 
FESTIVAL
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
June 6, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
March 8, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
yes
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
March 8, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Lit Fest, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, 3844 York Street, Denver, CO 80205. (303) 297-1185. Torin Jensen, Assistant Director of Special Programs.

Torin Jensen
Assistant Director of Special Programs
Contact City: 
Denver
Contact State: 
CO
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
80205
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

The Pistil by Ben Lerner

Caption: 

“Noses of bats, it’s time / To write the first poem in English / Each line the last, small / rain turning glass.” In this Poetry Book Society video, Ben Lerner reads his poem “The Pistil,” which appears in a special U.K. slipcase edition of his collection The Lights released by Granta Books and the Poetry Books Society.

Genre: 
Poetry
Tags: 
Ben Lerner
The Lights
Granta Books
Poetry Book Society
reading
2024

Etymology

The Time Is Now
2.11.25

Did you know that the word robust comes from the Latin word robur meaning “oak tree?” Merriam-Webster’s “12 Words Whose History Will Surprise You” provides the fascinating etymological history of words such as boudoir, phlegm, amethyst, and assassin, essentially mini lessons demonstrating an English word’s linguistic origins from an assortment of languages, including Medieval Latin, Greek, Arabic, French, and Middle English. Jot down a list of some of your favorite nouns, verbs, and adjectives, and look up their origin stories. (Tip: Merriam-Webster often lists a word’s etymology in the “Word History” section.) Write a poem inspired by this newly discovered and intriguing story behind the language, incorporating past iterations of the word into your verse.

A Reading With Lise Goett and Mark Wunderlich

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Lise Goett reads from her third poetry collection, The Radiant (Tupelo Press, 2024), in this Jules’ Poetry Playhouse virtual reading with Mark Wunderlich hosted by Jules Nyquist and John Roche. The Radiant is featured in Page One in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

Genre: 
Poetry
Tags: 
Lise Goett
The Radiant
Tupelo Press
reading
Mark Wunderlich
Poetry Playhouse
Jules Nyquist
John Roche
Page One
January/February 2025

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