Q&A: Maldonado Leads the Academy
The first Latinx president and executive director of the Academy of American Poets reflects on his start at the nonprofit and his vision for the organization’s future.
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Genre: Poetry
The Anthologist: A Compendium of Uncommon Collections
An introduction to three new anthologies, including Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire and A Mouth Holds Many Things: A De-Canon Hybrid-Literary Collection.
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Literary MagNet: Saba Keramati
The author of Self-Mythology, a debut poetry collection, introduces some of the journals that offered a home for her work, including AGNI and Poet Lore.
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Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Budapest and Prague Writing Retreat
The Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Budapest and Prague Writing Retreat was held from July 19 to July 27 in the historic city centers of Budapest and Prague. The retreat featured writing and publishing workshops, craft seminars, and generative writing sessions for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. The faculty included poets and prose writers Rita Banerjee and Diana Norma Szokolyai. The cost of the retreat was $4,800, which included tuition, lodging at Hotel Oktogon in Budapest and Falkensteiner Hotel in Prague, daily breakfast, and special meals.
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RESIDENCY
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no
Event Date:
July 19, 2024
Rolling Admissions:
no
Application Deadline:
June 1, 2024
Financial Aid?:
yes
Financial Aid Application Deadline:
May 15, 2024
Free Admission:
no
Contact Information:
Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Budapest and Prague Writing Retreat, Cambridge Writers’ Workshop, Inc., Artist’s Row, 24 New Derby Street, Salem, MA 01970. (617) 401-8950. Diana Norma Szokolyai, Executive Artistic Director.
Diana Norma Szokolyai
Executive Artistic Director
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Budapest
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HU
Renaissance House Residency Program
The Renaissance House Residency Program offered residencies of one to two weeks in July to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at the former writing barn of Dorothy West in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. The residencies included workshops, lectures, and time to write. Visiting writers included fiction and nonfiction writer Jill Nelson; nonfiction writers Nancy Slonim Aronie, Cole Brown, Jessica B. Harris, and Susan Klein; and scholar Salem Mekuria.
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RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?:
no
Event Date:
July 1, 2024
Rolling Admissions:
yes
Application Deadline:
May 25, 2025
Financial Aid?:
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline:
May 25, 2025
Free Admission:
no
Contact Information:
Renaissance House Residency Program, Helene Johnson and Dorothy West Foundation for Artists in Need, 484 West 43rd Street, Suite 37E, New York, NY 10036. (917) 747-0367. Abigail McGrath, Founder.
Abigail McGrath
Founder
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Martha’s Vineyard
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MA
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US
Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees by Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Good Monster by Diannely Antigua.
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A Few Things
“Though you have known someone for more than forty years, though you have worked with them and lived with them, you do not know everything. I do not know everything—but a few things, which I will tell,” writes Mary Oliver about her partner Molly Malone Cook in her book Our World (Beacon Press, 2009), which celebrates their life and home together in Cape Cod through Oliver’s essays and Cook’s photography. Write a poem about someone you have known for a long time, but who is no longer in your life. Begin first by forming two lists: one list for the things you knew about this person and a second list of what you did not know. Select several items from each list and compose a poem that paints a portrait through the lens of your relationship. What are the things that were shared, imparted, revealed, and hidden?
Ten Questions for Sheila Carter-Jones
“Above all, be brave!” —Sheila Carter-Jones, author of Every Hard Sweetness
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Safia Elhillo, Jos Charles, and Sam Sax
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In this video, Safia Elhillo, author of Girls That Never Die (One World, 2022), Jos Charles, author of A Year & Other Poems (Milkweed Editions, 2022), and Sam Sax, author of Pig (Scribner, 2023), read a selection of their poems for this Beyond Baroque event in Venice, California.
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Ada Limón and NASA at SXSW
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“As poets, our job is to make all the music complete on the page.” In this video, U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón presents a keynote speech on the power and beauty of poetry, and speaks with Dr. Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division, about the intersections between art and science at the 2024 South by Southwest festival.
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