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The transcription of Voca, an audiovisual archive of more than twelve thousand poetry recordings, makes literary history accessible to poets, critics, scholars, and the general public.
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 the arts collective Cultivate, will offer two-week and one-month residencies from April through October to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators in apartments and a small terratetto house in the historic hilltop village of Montegiovi, Italy. Residents will stay in private lodging with a fully equipped kitchen, a bathroom, and an outside sitting area. Some lodging options include a study. 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 2025 AWP Conference and Bookfair was held from March 26 to March 29 at the Los Angeles Convention Center and also included a virtual component comprising prerecorded and live streamed events. The conference featured panel discussions, readings, discussion rooms, and a bookfair. Prior to March 25, the cost of the conference for in-person preregistration, including all virtual programming and content, was $375 for nonmembers, $255 for members, $105 for seniors, and $70 for students.
Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference and Bookfair, 440 Monticello Avenue, Suite 1802, PMB 73708, Norfolk, VA 23510. (240) 696-8273.
In a recent video, Maggie Millner, Yale Review senior editor and author of Couplets: A Love Story (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023), speaks about her favorite love poems, including June Jordan’s short poem “Resolution #1,003,” which she says “illustrates the way that love between two people can inspire a politics, a kind of political vision.” Spend some time thinking about the relationships in your life and who might inspire in you a sort of political vision. Write a poem that captures how to “love who loves me” and “stay indifferent to indifference,” as Jordan writes in her poem. How might the circumstances, breadth, and boundaries of your adoration for someone be political?
The Lighthouse Writers Workshop’s 2025 Lit Fest will be held from June 6 to June 13 online and at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop headquarters in Denver. The festival features weekend and weeklong workshops, craft seminars, salons, business panels, and agent consultations for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. The faculty includes poets Eduardo C.
Lit Fest, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, 3844 York Street, Denver, CO 80205. (303) 297-1185. Torin Jensen, Assistant Director of Special Programs.
The Chicago Writers Association Conference was held from March 21 to March 23 at the Warwick Allerton Hotel in Chicago. The program featured faculty presentations, workshops, panel discussions, master classes, pitch sessions, author interviews, and social events for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers. The faculty included poet Curtis L. Crisler; poet and fiction writer Stuart Dybek; poet, fiction writer, and nonfiction writer Dipika Mukherjee; and fiction writers Ann Garvin, Dana Kaye, Eric Charles May, and Jeremy T. Wilson.
Chicago Writers Association Conference, P.O. Box 6505, Evanston, IL 60204. (312) 520-5090. Samantha Hoffman, Executive Director.
