Genre: Poetry

Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival

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 28, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 28, 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
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Paris Writer’s Residency

The Paris Writer’s Residency will offer a monthlong residency in October to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators at the American University of Paris. The resident is provided with an en suite single or double room, which includes a work desk, at the Irish Cultural Center in Paris. Some rooms include a private study space, and residents have access to a shared kitchen. Access to the library at the Ecole Normale Supérieure is also offered. The resident receives travel reimbursement of up to €1,500 (approximately $1,544).

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
October 1, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
June 28, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 28, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Paris Writer’s Residency, American University of Paris, 147 rue de Grenelle, Paris 75007, France. Amanda Dennis, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English. 

Amanda Dennis
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English
Contact City: 
Paris
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
75007
Country: 
FR

The Writer’s Retreat at Good Contrivance Farm

Good Contrivance Farm, an educational nonprofit, offers residencies of up to four weeks year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a Victorian farm in Reisterstown, Maryland, located 24 miles north of Baltimore. Workshops and craft classes with visiting faculty are offered outdoors from May to September. The faculty includes poet and nonfiction writer Ross Gay, memoirist R. Eric Thomas, and publishing professional Jane Friedman (Jane Friedman Media).

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
June 28, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
June 28, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 28, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

The Writer’s Retreat at Good Contrivance Farm, 2015 Emory Road, Reisterstown, MD 21136. (443) 529-2939. 

Contact City: 
Reisterstown
Contact State: 
MD
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
21136
Country: 
US
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Poetry by the Sea: A Global Conference

Poetry by the Sea: A Global Conference was held from May 27 to May 30 at Mercy by the Sea, a retreat center and private beach in Madison, Connecticut. The conference featured workshops, seminars, readings, and panels. The faculty includes poets Chad Abushanab, Austin Allen, Melissa Balmain, Oliver de la Paz, Anna M. Evans, David Groff, Didi Jackson, Major Jackson, David M. Katz, Joshua Mehigan, and Clare Rossini. Participating publishing professionals include editors Jennifer Franklin (Hudson Valley Writers Center) and Allison Joseph (Crab Orchard Review).

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
June 28, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
June 28, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 28, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Poetry by the Sea: A Global Conference, 63 Parry Drive, Hainesport, NJ 08036. (609) 346-5011. Anna M. Evans, Board President. 

Anna M. Evans
Board President
Contact City: 
Madison
Contact State: 
CT
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
06443
Country: 
US
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Poetry at Round Top Festival

The 23rd annual Poetry at Round Top Festival will be held from April 25 to April 27 at the Round Top Festival Institute campus in Round Top, Texas. The program features workshops, readings, craft talks, open mics, panel discussions, and manuscript consultations. The faculty includes poets Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Hayan Charara, Mark Doty, Amanda Johnston, Joan Logghe, Cecily Parks, and Kim Stafford. Poets Katie Dozier and Timothy Green will be the workshop leaders. The cost of the conference is $150 ($50 for students) or $75 to attend only Saturday programming.

Type: 
FESTIVAL
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
April 25, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
June 28, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 28, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Poetry at Round Top Festival, Round Top Festival Institute, 248 Jaster Road, Round Top, TX 78954. (979) 249-3129. Katherine Durham Oldmixon Garza, Director. 

Katherine Durham Oldmixon Garza
Director
Contact City: 
Round Top
Contact State: 
TX
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
78954
Country: 
US
Genre: 

American University of Paris Summer Creative Writing Institute

The American University of Paris Summer Creative Writing Institute will offer workshops to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers from July 1 to July 23 on the university’s campus in the seventh arrondissement of Paris. The faculty includes poet and fiction writer Siân Melangell Dafydd; poet, fiction writer, and nonfiction writer Biswamit Dwibedy; poet and nonfiction writer Lisa Robertson; and fiction writer Amanda Dennis. The cost of tuition is €2,224 (approximately $2,289) for auditors or €4,448 (approximately $4,577) for transferable academic credit.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
July 1, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
June 28, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 28, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

American University of Paris Summer Creative Writing Institute, 5 Boulevard de la Tour-Maubourg, 75007 Paris, France. Andrea Christmas, Summer School and Financial Aid Coordinator.

Andrea Christmas
Summer School and Financial Aid Coordinator
Contact City: 
Paris
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
75007
Country: 
FR

Nobody’s Fool

2.18.25

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?

Lit Fest

The Lighthouse Writers Workshop’s 2025 Lit Fest was held from June 6 to June 13 online and at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop headquarters in Denver. The festival featured weekend and weeklong workshops, craft seminars, salons, business panels, and agent consultations for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. The faculty included poets Eduardo C.

Type: 
FESTIVAL
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
June 28, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
June 28, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 28, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Lit Fest, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, 3844 York Street, Denver, CO 80205. (303) 297-1185. Torin Jensen, Assistant Director of Special Programs.

Torin Jensen
Assistant Director of Special Programs
Contact City: 
Denver
Contact State: 
CO
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
80205
Country: 
US

Get Lit! Festival

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 28, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 28, 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

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.

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