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!
Day 2 of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing…exploring Edgartown, then giving my poetry reading tonight alongside the wonderful Vogue Robinson!
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 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: 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 teaching a generative poetry workshop tomorrow Wed July 27 from 4:30-6 pm EDT. Register for the free zoom event via the email address in the poster! Thanks to the Oak Bluffs Public Library on Martha’s Vineyard for hosting! Come on down and let’s write some poems!