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Race car driver Alex Grabau has customized his car with a decal of a poem by Jim Daniels. From July 9 to 11, Grabau will compete in Giants Despair, an uphill race in Laurel Run, Pennsylvania. He will race again at the Duryea Hillclimb in Reading, Pennsylvania, from August 20 to 22.
On Tuesday the second annual United Nations World Oceans Day was observed, a date that also marked the seventh week of the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Poetry Society of America, the oldest poetry organization in the country, is marking its centennial this year with a number of special events that are being held across the country.
Beginning this year New Poets for Peace, the New York City branch of Poets for Peace—a grassroots group that for the past decade has held free, donation-optional readings across the country to raise funds for international relief organizations—plans to host an event every six weeks in Manhattan, including a special reading and silent auction on March 21 in observance of the seventh anniversary of the U.S. military's invasion of Iraq.
The 2023 Napa Valley Writers’ Conference was held from July 30 to August 4 on the main campus of Napa Valley College in Napa, California. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and translation, as well as craft talks and evening readings. The faculty included poets Victoria Chang, Brenda Hillman, Ilya Kaminsky, and Carl Phillips; fiction writers Lan Samantha Chang, Katie Crouch, Peter Orner, and Crystal Wilkinson; and translator Robert Hass. The cost of the conference was $1,100, which included tuition, daily breakfast and lunch, two dinners, and wine tastings.
Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, Napa Valley College, Office 1753, 2277 Napa-Vallejo Highway, Napa, CA 94558. (707) 256-7417.
The 47th annual Aspen Summer Words Writing Conference and Literary Festival was held from June 18 to June 23 at the Viewline, a resort in the mountain town of Snowmass, Colorado, around 15 minutes from downtown Aspen. The conference featured workshops, including a workshop on book editing, for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers; panels and craft talks; and readings; as well as opportunities to meet with agents and editors.
Aspen Summer Words Writing Conference and Literary Festival, 110 East Hallam Street, Suite 116, Aspen, CO 81611. (970) 925-3122.
