Genre: Poetry

Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency

The Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency, administered by PEN Northwest, offers a seven-month residency from April through October to a poet or prose writer, or pair of writers, at Dutch Henry Homestead in the Rogue River Canyon of southwest Oregon. Residents are provided with private lodging, including two small bedrooms, a sleeping loft, a living room with a kitchen, a bathroom, and a roof-deck, on 92 acres of forest and meadow. One hour of general homestead maintenance is required each day. Residents will also receive a stipend of at least $3,500.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
April 1, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
March 15, 2024
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
May 31, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency, PEN Northwest, c/o John Daniel, 23030 W. Sheffler Road, Elmira, OR 97437.

Contact City: 
Elmira
Contact State: 
OR
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
97437
Country: 
US

Joy Harjo and Camille T. Dungy on Nature Poems

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In this 2023 National Book Festival event, Joy Harjo, author of Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years (Norton, 2022), and Camille T. Dungy, author of Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden (Simon & Schuster, 2023), read from their work and discuss writing about nature in a conversation moderated by NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe. Dungy’s essay “Manifest Some Magic: Get Out of Your Own Way and Do the Darn Thing” is included in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

5 Over 50: 2023 Virtual Reading

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In this virtual reading and conversation, Poets & Writers editor in chief Kevin Larimer introduces the 2023 cohort of “5 Over 50” debut authors, Alma García, author of All That Rises (University of Arizona Press, 2023); Bernardine “Dine” Watson, author of Transplant (Washington Writers’ Publishing House, 2023); Tommy Archuleta, author of Susto (Center for Literary Publishing, 2023); Chin-Sun Lee, author of Upcountry (Unnamed Press, 2023); and Donna Spruijt-Metz, author of General Release From the Beginning of the World (Parlor Press, 2023).

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