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In this event hosted by the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, poet and translator Sawako Nakayasu reads from her books Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From (Wave Books, 2020) and Pink Waves (Omnidawn, 2023), and talks about the creative repetition inherent to translation and her relationship to improvisational forms in music and dance.
The La Baldi Residency, sponsored by Cultivate, offers two-week and one-month residencies from April through October to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators, in Montegiovi, Italy. Residents are provided with private lodging in apartments, a house, or a palazzo with a fully equipped kitchen and outdoor sitting area. Individual writers and collaborative teams may apply.
La Baldi Residency, 15504 Moravia Court, Derwood, MD 20855. Susan Main, Cultivate Director.
In this video, Maggie Millner, Yale Review senior editor and author of Couplets: A Love Story (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023), talks about her favorite love poems, including Thom Gunn’s “The Hug” and June Jordan’s “Resolution #1,003.”
The 2026 AWP Conference and Bookfair will be held from March 4 to March 7 at the Baltimore Convention Center and will also include a virtual component comprising prerecorded and live streamed events. The conference features panel discussions, readings, public receptions, and a bookfair. Prior to March 4, the cost of the conference for in-person preregistration, including all virtual programming and content, is $380 for nonmembers, $260 for members, $110 for seniors, and $75 for students.
Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference and Bookfair, 440 Monticello Avenue, Suite 1802, PMB 73708, Norfolk, VA 23510. (240) 696-8273.
The 2025 Orion Environmental Writers’ Workshop was held from June 15 to June 20 at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York.
Orion Environmental Writers’ Workshop, 187 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA 01230. Kathleen Yale, Workshop Manager.
