Genre: Poetry

Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival

March/April 2025

The 2025 Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival will be held from April 25 to April 27 on the Sarah Lawrence College campus in Bronxville, New York, 30 minutes by train from New York City. The festival features workshops, readings, panel discussions, and craft talks. The faculty includes poets Hala Alyan, Caroline Bird, Sophie Cabot Black, Victoria Redel, Sam Sax, R. A. Villanueva, and Kerri Webster. All events are free and open to the public. Visit the website for more information.

Type: 
FESTIVAL
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
April 25, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
June 3, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 3, 2025
Free Admission: 
yes
Contact Information: 

Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival, 1 Mead Way, Bronxville, NY 10708. Tyson Berardo and Ellie Gold Laabs, Codirectors. 

Tyson Berardo and Ellie Gold Laabs
Codirectors
Contact City: 
Bronxville
Contact State: 
NY
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
10708
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
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literary festivals

The Lab Creative Writing Retreat

March/April 2025

The 2025 Lab Creative Writing Retreat will be held from June 14 to June 21 at the Son Sion villa in the village of Porreres, located on a Mediterranean island 30 minutes south of Mallorca, Spain. Programming includes workshops, one-on-one meetings with authors and agents, and space and time to write for poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
June 14, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
April 15, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 3, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

The Lab Creative Writing Retreat, 11 Martha Drive, Melville, NY 11747. Matthew Clark Davison, Codirector.

Matthew Clark Davison
Codirector
Contact City: 
Porreres
Country: 
ES
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

Tremont Writers Conference

March/April 2025

The Tremont Writers Conference will be held from October 22 to October 26 at the Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont, located in the eponymous national park six miles southwest of Townsend, Tennessee. The conference features workshops, author readings, and craft talks for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers, as well as outdoor activities, including hikes and campfires. The faculty includes poet Maurice Manning, fiction writers David Joy and Karen Spears Zacharias, and nonfiction writer Crystal Wilkinson.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
October 22, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
April 30, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
yes
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
April 30, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Tremont Writers Conference, Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont, 9275 Tremont Road, Townsend, TN 37882. (865) 448-6709. Frances Figart and Jeremy Lloyd, Codirectors.

Frances Figart and Jeremy Lloyd
Codirectors
Contact City: 
Townsend
Contact State: 
TN
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
37882
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Get Lit! Festival

March/April 2025

The 27th annual Get Lit! Festival was held online and in person from April 10 to April 13 at various venues in and around Spokane, Washington. The festival featured readings, craft classes, panel discussions, and a bookfair at Montvale Event Center for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. Participating writers included poets Andrés Cerpa, Ayokunle Falomo, and Margot Kahn; fiction writers Debra Magpie Earling, Jessica E.

Type: 
FESTIVAL
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
April 10, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
June 3, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 3, 2025
Free Admission: 
yes
Contact Information: 

Get Lit! Festival, Get Lit! Programs, 601 E Riverside Avenue, Room 440, Spokane, WA 99202. (509) 828-1435. Kate Peterson, Director. 

Kate Peterson
Director
Contact City: 
Spokane
Contact State: 
WA
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
99202
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Tags: 
literary festivals

The Pistil by Ben Lerner

Caption: 

“Noses of bats, it’s time / To write the first poem in English / Each line the last, small / rain turning glass.” In this Poetry Book Society video, Ben Lerner reads his poem “The Pistil,” which appears in a special U.K. slipcase edition of his collection The Lights released by Granta Books and the Poetry Books Society.

Genre: 
Poetry
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Ben Lerner
The Lights
Granta Books
Poetry Book Society
reading
2024

Etymology

The Time Is Now
2.11.25

Did you know that the word robust comes from the Latin word robur meaning “oak tree?” Merriam-Webster’s “12 Words Whose History Will Surprise You” provides the fascinating etymological history of words such as boudoir, phlegm, amethyst, and assassin, essentially mini lessons demonstrating an English word’s linguistic origins from an assortment of languages, including Medieval Latin, Greek, Arabic, French, and Middle English. Jot down a list of some of your favorite nouns, verbs, and adjectives, and look up their origin stories. (Tip: Merriam-Webster often lists a word’s etymology in the “Word History” section.) Write a poem inspired by this newly discovered and intriguing story behind the language, incorporating past iterations of the word into your verse.

A Reading With Lise Goett and Mark Wunderlich

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Lise Goett reads from her third poetry collection, The Radiant (Tupelo Press, 2024), in this Jules’ Poetry Playhouse virtual reading with Mark Wunderlich hosted by Jules Nyquist and John Roche. The Radiant is featured in Page One in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Poetry
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Lise Goett
The Radiant
Tupelo Press
reading
Mark Wunderlich
Poetry Playhouse
Jules Nyquist
John Roche
Page One
January/February 2025

The Luminous Life: Debut Poets Virtual Reading

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Poets & Writers Magazine features editor India Lena González hosts this two-part event celebrating the ten debut poets featured in “The Luminous Life: Our Twentieth Annual Look at Debut Poets” from our January/February 2025 issue. The virtual event includes readings from the poets, as well as conversations about their debut books, their influences and inspirations, and their individual paths to publication.

Genre: 
Poetry
Tags: 
Debut Poets 2025
India Lena González
Poets & Writers Live
Kenzie Allen
Jimin Seo
Sarah Ghazal Ali
Diego Báez
Saretta Morgan
Yalie Saweda Kamara
Darius Atefat-Peckham
Stephanie Choi
Christian J. Collier
Matthew Gellman
reading
January/February 2025

In Motion

The Time Is Now
2.4.25

Edges of Ailey is an immersive exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art centered around the twentieth-century choreographer, dancer, and artist who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. The show spotlights multimedia presentations of Ailey’s work, recorded footage, notebooks and drawings, as well as works that inspired Ailey and have been inspired by him in the forms of literature, music, and visual art. Write a poem centered on movements of the body, whether a creative motion like a dance move or the everyday, repetitive motion of carrying out a task. Allow yourself the freedom to experiment with page space—choosing different sizes or styles of script, incorporating small drawings or cutouts—to create a collage-like piece.

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