Genre: Poetry

Wordplay

May/June 2023

The 2023 Wordplay festival was held on July 8 in and around Open Book, a literary center in Minneapolis, with some panels livestreamed for a virtual audience. The festival featured panel discussions, author interviews, interactive activities for children and adults, food trucks, and local artists. The theme for this year’s event was “Narrative Power.” Participating writers included poets and fiction writers Fatimah Asghar and Mahogany L.

Type: 
FESTIVAL
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
December 21, 2024
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
December 21, 2024
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
December 21, 2024
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Wordplay, Loft Literary Center, 1011 Washington Avenue South, Suite 200, Minneapolis, MN 55415. Claire Rekow-McKee, Events and Partnership Coordinator.

Claire Rekow-McKee
Events and Partnership Coordinator
Contact City: 
Minneapolis
Contact State: 
MN
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
55415
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Poetry Society of America

Literary Archive, Reading Venue, Writing Center

The Poetry Society of America, the nation’s oldest poetry organization, was founded in 1910. Its mission is to build a larger and more diverse audience for poetry, to encourage a deeper appreciation of the vitality and breadth of poetry in the cultural conversation, to support poets through an array of programs and awards, and to place poetry at the crossroads of American life. 

Yu and Me Books

Indie Bookstore

Located in Chinatown, Manhattan, Yu and Me Books is a bookstore that showcases immigrant stories and creates a home for the community. It is the first female, Asian-American owned bookstore in New York City. The initials of the bookstore, YM, are the owner’s mother’s initials and represent the stories that have been passed down to them for generations.

Karisma Price With Terrance Hayes at Books Are Magic

Caption: 

In this Books Are Magic event, Karisma Price reads from her debut collection, I’m Always So Serious (Sarabande Books, 2023), and discusses the inspiration behind her work with poet Terrance Hayes. “As a poet, oddity is good,” says Price. For more from Price, read her installment of our Writers Recommend series.

Genre: 
Poetry
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Karisma Price
Terrance Hayes
Books Are Magic
I’m Always So Serious
Sarabande Books
2023

P&T Knitwear

Indie Bookstore, Reading Venue

P&T Knitwear is a family-owned independent bookstore, podcast studio, event space, and cafe in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The name dates back to the knitwear store the founder’s grandfather Hymie Tusk and his business partner Mike Pudlo started in 1952, after surviving the Holocaust and emigrating to New York City.

A Single Object

The Time Is Now
4.11.23

“I love to take an object made all but invisible by its mundanity—an egg-shaped container of pantyhose, a lawn chair turned on its side—and break it open to expose the full dimensions of the human vulnerability it carries,” writes Danielle Blau in her Craft Capsule essay “Somewhere Somebody Is Doing Something Right Now,” in which she explores how she creates characters for her poems. Write a poem that attempts to expose the full dimensions of an object and how it offers a reflection of a person, whether yourself or another character. What is the significance of this object and how does it exemplify human vulnerability?

Clint Smith With Stephen Colbert

Caption: 

“For me, poetry is the act of paying attention. It pushes me to pay attention to a moment, a feeling, an idea, an image.” Clint Smith speaks about what poetry means to him, the themes in his new collection, Above Ground (Little, Brown, 2023), and reads his poem “All at Once” in this interview on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.

Genre: 
Poetry
Tags: 
Clint Smith
Above Ground
Little, Brown
2023
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
interview

Not That, But This

The Time Is Now
4.4.23

“What I adore is not horses, with their modern / domestic life span of 25 years. What I adore / is a bug that lives only one day,” writes Natalie Shapero in her poem “Not Horses,” published in the November 2013 issue of Poetry magazine. Shapero redirects the reader from horses to the short lifespan of a bug within the first few lines of the poem and in doing so creates a humorous tension between the title and the body of the poem that adds character to the unique speaker. This week write a poem that moves quickly from one subject to the next. Consider how your mind shifts from one thought to another and carry that tone forward into the poem.

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