Fabulous to read last night at the beautiful Brewerton Center for the Arts with wonderful fellow poets Laura Donnelly, Kenneth Nichols, Stephanie Pritchard, Charlie Itzen, Tim McCoy, Devon Moore, and Steve Smith. Let’s hear it for National Poetry Month!
What a delight to hold my rocket-powered contributor copy of Arts & Letters 20th anniversary issue, which contains my poems “The Answer the Question in Your Mind Rosemary” and “Lighthouse Lighthouse Lighthouse.” Thank you Editors Hali Sofala-Jones, Cecilia Woloch, Faith Thompson, Jennifer Watkins, and the rest of the Arts & Letters flight crew! This is such a gorgeous issue!
Welcoming us writers, poets, dancers, artists, choreographers, documentarians to this special place. ❤️
http://ragdale.org/
Unpacking in the “Top of the Stairs,” my room in Ragdale, an arts & crafts house designed by Howard Van Doren Shaw, built in 1897 and home to the Ragdale Foundation, an artists’ retreat and haven for creating.
Salivating over the window seat in my room and the private “treehouse” sleeping porch….
…and the private “treehouse” sleeping porch.
Delighted to receive my contributor copy of Raleigh Review, containing my poems “Dear Diary Where Is Everybody,” “Waves Frozen Like Wrinkles on Dog Skin,” and “Light at the Beach a Thousand Doctors.” Thank you Poetry Editor Bryce Emley and the rest of the Raleigh Review crew!
I’m thrilled to learn that my lyric essay “Root That Mountain” has been awarded the 2018 Meek Award for Creative Nonfiction from The Florida Review. This award recognizes the best non-contest, non-solicited work published by the journal in 2018. Thank you Lisa Roney and the rest of The Florida Review editors and staff for this honor!
Delighted to learn that my poem “It’s Something People in Love Do” has been accepted for Terrapin Books’ anthology A Compendium of Kisses, where it will appear along poems by Dorianne Laux, David Kirby, Tim Seibles, Ellen Bass, Alice Friman, Ron Smith, Charles H. Webb, Jeffrey Harrison, Caitlin Doyle, Kurt Brown, Baron Wormser, and Jeanne Marie Beaumont, and many others!
I’m thrilled to announce I’ll be teaching this summer at the brand new Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference at Paul Smith’s College in the Adirondacks June 22-29, 2019. I’ll be teaching the week-long poetry generative workshop. There’s tons of great classes, teachers, and events scheduled. Registration is open. Information is below. Come on up! 🙂
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KETTLE POND WRITERS’ CONFERENCE
JUNE 22-29, 2019: Paul Smith’s College, Paul Smith’s, NY
*A community-focused conference with a warm, supportive vibe, led by excellent faculty & publishing industry professionals
*Short and longform workshops in CNF, fiction & poetry
+ Writers’ Residency (no workshop) option
*Craft lectures, generative workshops, publishing & industry events, faculty & participant readings & more!
*Tuition includes room, board & access to campus facilities — library, laundry, gym, miles of hiking trails, canoes & kayaks, outdoor classrooms & writing spots, etc…
*A place to work on your writing & make new friends in the beautiful Adirondack Park in upstate New York
*Fellowship assistance available
*FREE application
*Rolling admissions — Applications are open!
www.kettlepondwriters.com
Questions? We’d love to answer them! info@kettlepondwriters.com
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I’ll be teaching again this summer at the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing (June 9-15, 2019). It’s our 10th year! I’m also the poetry judge for this year’s writing contest. The deadline’s March 25, so you’ve still got almost a week to submit! Two winners will be awarded full tuition and lodging to attend the Summer Writers’ Conference, and two additional winners will be awarded partial tuition ($500 toward Tuition). Entries are judged anonymously. https://www.mvicw.com/contest
Last night’s release party for Stone Canoe no. 13 at The Downtown Writer’s Center was such a blast! What an honor and a delight to be the guest Poetry Editor for this issue! Thank you to everyone who sent in your poems for consideration and to the 25 poets whose work appears in the issue. It was such a joy to hear poetry readings by Laura Donnelly, Devon Branca, Genoa Wilson, and Jackie Craven (apologies for my blurry cell photos). Huge thanks to the diligent Assistant Editors Judy Carr, Cindy Ostuni, and Gloria Heffernan — your wise work has paid off in a beautiful issue and you should be proud. Thank you to Managing Editor Carol Biesemeyer for your many considerations. And thank you again to Phil Memmer for inviting me to be a part of this issue. Everyone should order a copy and chase the winter blues away with all the poems, fiction, nonfiction…there’s also a play, interviews with Alison Lurie and Edward Hower, a trove of visual art! Long live Stone Canoe!
On Saturday April 27, 2019, I’ll be reading my poetry along with these seven other wonderfuls at the Brewerton Center for the Arts, just north of Syracuse on the shores of Oneida Lake. If you’re in the area, come on by! https://www.brewertoncenterforthearts.org/
Snazzy graphic, eh? 🙂