Day 6 of Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference! Writing and relaxing on the shore of Akwasasne Lake at Paul Smith’s College, waving hi to the wonderful Operations Manager Greta Hovland & our wonderful Director Virginia Zech as they rise from the water, then enjoying the wonderful Brian Hall reading us his fiction!
Day 4 of Kettle Pond Writers Conference continued! I gave my poetry reading alongside the wonderful Kem Joy Ukwu. Then sat out by a fire on the shore of Akwasasne Lake at Paul Smith’s College.
Day 4 of Kettle Pond Writers Conference! A writers walk in nature, featuring the Butterfly Tent, irises along a boardwalk, followed by ice cream! In the morning, I taught my 2nd generative session: goodbye poems and short poems!
Day 3 of Kettle Pond Writers Conference! Hanging on the lake with St. Regis Mountain, and with friends Kia and Damaris, then at night hearing readings by the wonderful Jaclyn Gilbert and the wonderful Deirdre Coyle!
Day 2 of Kettle Pond Writers Conference! I taught my generative workshop with sun poems and apostrophe poems! Then in the evening we had readings by the wonderful Ashley Mayne and the wonderful Chen Chen! In the night, accordion music accompanied by loons on Lower St Regis Lake.
Day 6 and 7 of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing…teaching my Literary Publishing class, attending the closing ceremonies…then traveling home from that little island I love so much! Thank you so much to all the awesome attendees, faculty, and staff who made this MVICW 2026 such a warm and wonderful time!!!
Day 5 of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing…teaching my workshops Flash Away and Welcoming Surprises, then faculty Dinner at Oak Bluff’s Black Joy Kitchen followed by the traditional late night visit to Back Door Donuts!
Day 4 of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing…manuscript conferences with tons of awesome writers (not pictured 😀) followed by a faculty trip to Menemsha for sunset lobsters and then fog fog lighthouse fog fog!
Day 3 of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing…talking over manuscripts with writers at the Vineyard Arts Project and hearing the evening readings by the wonderful Hannah Bae and the wonderful Jackson Brown!
Oh, just 3 alumni from Indiana University’s MFA in Creative Writing strolling along the night-time docks in Edgartown on Martha’s Vineyard: Alexander Weinstein, Jackson Brown, and yours truly!