Genre: Poetry

Franconia Sculpture Park Writers Residency

July/August 2023

Franconia Sculpture Park offered eight residencies of two weeks in January and October to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at an outdoor sculpture park located in the St. Croix River Valley, in Shafer, Minnesota. Residents were provided with a private bedroom within a communal farmhouse, a shared office space, access to walking trails, airport pickup and drop-off, and a $1,000 stipend.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
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yes
Event Date: 
January 20, 2026
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
January 20, 2026
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
January 20, 2026
Free Admission: 
yes
Contact Information: 

Franconia Sculpture Park Writers Residency, 29836 St. Croix Trail, Shafer, MN 55074. (651) 257-6668.

Contact City: 
Shafer
Contact State: 
MN
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
55074
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Roger Robinson: The City Kids See the Sea

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“For many the first time; / these kids of the tower block / and tarred playgrounds / now running towards this scene / of sea,” reads Roger Robinson from his poem “The City Kids See the Sea” in this short film directed by Matthew Thompson and produced by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation for their Read By poetry film series.

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Poetry
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Roger Robinson
The City Kids See the Sea
Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation
Read By series
short film
2022

Limits

The Time Is Now
6.7.22

In this week’s installment of our Craft Capsules series, poet Trevor Ketner writes about setting specific parameters and inventing methods to guide their writing. For their first book, [WHITE] (University of Georgia Press, 2021), Ketner based a series of poems on the major arcana cards of the tarot: “Because the major arcana comprises twenty-two cards, I wrote twenty-two poems of twenty-two lines each,” says Ketner. Inspired by Ketner’s use of invented forms, choose a number significant to you and write a poem limited to that number of lines. Will having a set structure surprise you with the freedom to push your language?

Will Alexander on Intuition

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“[The Congo] is the heartbeat of the world, and it’s never recognized as a central heartbeat,” says Will Alexander about the focus of his most recent collection, Refractive Africa (New Directions, 2021), a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in poetry, in this Poetry.LA interview with Douglas Manuel about the intuition he follows for his writing. “I’m not colonized by cognitive expertise,” says Alexander.

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Poetry
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Will Alexander
Refractive Africa
New Directions
2021
Pulitzer Prize
Poetry.LA interview series
Douglas Manuel
2022

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

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In celebration of Walt Whitman’s bicentennial birthday on May 31 of 2019, Brooklyn residents—including Mahogany L. Browne, Jason Koo, Gregory Pardlo, Ben Purkert, and Brooklyn poet laureate Tina Chang—recite his 1856 poem “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” from Leaves of Grass in various neighborhoods and libraries throughout the borough. This video was produced by the Brooklyn Public Library.

Genre: 
Poetry
Tags: 
Walt Whitman
reading
2019
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Leaves of Grass
Tina Chang
Ben Purkert
Gregory Pardlo
Jason Koo
Mahogany L. Browne
Brooklyn Public Library

The Love of Racing

The Time Is Now
5.31.22

The 2022 National Senior Games, the largest multi-sport event in the world for men and women fifty years old and over, took place this month in Florida where over eleven thousand athletes registered to compete. In an article for the New York Times, Talya Minsberg interviewed runners who offer their advice on how to keep going. Roy Englert, the oldest competitor at ninety-nine years old, says to “keep moving, keep moving, keep moving, and have a little luck.” Ninety-three-year-old Lillian Atchley says, “I guess you just have to have the love to race, the determination to just do it.” This week write a poem using running as a metaphor. What images and words of inspiration come up for you?

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