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Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing 2025: my teaching!

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Two weeks after teaching poetry at the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture on Kefalonia, Greece, I taught my 13th year at the Martha’s Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing: prose poetry & flash fiction, the lyric essay, and literary publishing…plus a writers life panel and my poetry reading. I’m a very fulfilled poet and teacher this summer! On top of that I have one more writing conference to teach at: the awesome Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference at Paul Smith’s College in the Adirondacks!

Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing 2025: a Few of the Sights!

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Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing 2025 post #3: the sights! I’ve been coming to the Vineyard for 13 years and it kinda feels like home: the Vineyard Arts Project, the Edgartown docks, Oak Bluff’s late night Back Door Doughnuts, and this year’s award for most awesome Vineyard cat!

Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing 2025: the Attendees!

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Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing 2025: what an AMAZING group of attendees last week!!! I never take enough photos myself, but here are a few which people kindly shared. What an inspirational, engaged, energized, exciting, supportive group of writers! Wowsers!

I’m Zoom reading my poetry Wed June 30 for the Oak Bluffs Library!

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I’m giving a poetry reading this Wednesday June 30, 4:30-5:30 EDT, for the Oak Bluffs Public Library on Martha’s Vineyard! Register for the free zoom link via the email address in the poster. I’ll be reading from my new poetry book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun. Come on by!

More info HERE.

I’m teaching & reading online next week – for free!

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This is happening online next week! All free! 🙂 Workshops in fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Readings in the evenings! I’m teaching a generative workshop on Hermit Crab Lyric Essays on Wednesday morning, July 1, and I’m giving a reading on Friday July 3 at 7 pm. It’s all free and organized through the Oak Bluffs Public Library on Martha’s Vineyard. Tune in and join us!

https://www.facebook.com/events/272428864097682/

Thank you Martha’s Vineyard!

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Thank you so much to all the great folks who came out to my class on the hermit crab essay and my poetry reading yesterday at the Oak Bluffs Library on Martha’s Vineyard! It was such a treat!  Thank you to Carolina and Marco for hosting me at the library. Thank you to Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing for bringing me to the island as part of the year-long visiting writers series!

I’m teaching & reading in Martha’s Vineyard Feb 29, 2020!

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I’m delighted to announce that I’m returning to Martha’s Vineyard at the end of this month! I’ll be teaching a 2-hour writing class on the Hermit Crab Essay and then giving a poetry reading at the Oak Bluffs Public Library on Feb 29. It’s all completely free and open to the public. Dag! This event is part of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing’s Year-Round Writers Series. I did it last year, too, and we had a great time. If you’re in the area, please come on by!

More info HERE.

Thank you Martha’s Vineyard!

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With a steaming cup of chowder on the ferry off of Martha’s Vineyard I toast thank you to all the wonderful people who came out for my lyric essay class yesterday and my poetry reading and book signing today. Thank you to Carolina and Merissa for your help and hospitality. Thank you to everyone for making my winter visit to the vineyard cozy and warm! Can’t wait to come back in June for the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing tenth anniversary!

I’m teaching and reading on Martha’s Vineyard Jan 25 & 26, 2019

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I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be traveling to Martha’s Vineyard in a few weeks to offer a creative writing class on the lyric essay and to give a poetry reading – as part of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Year-Round Visiting Writers Series. Both the class and reading are free and open to the public. If you’re in the area come on by!

The Year-Round Visiting Writers Series highlights local and national writers and offers free creative writing workshops and readings to the Vineyard community.

Learn more here: http://oakbluffslibrary.org/event/mvicw-writing-series-the-poetic-essay-writing-seminar/