Genre: Poetry

Spring Creek Project

March/April 2020

The Spring Creek Project offers two-week collaborative residencies in August and September to pairs of poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers at the Cabin at Shotpouch Creek in the Oregon Coast Range. The residency is open to writers who wish to pursue a collaborative project, and whose work takes inspiration from the natural world. Residents are provided with lodging in a two-bedroom cabin and a $250 stipend each.

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RESIDENCY
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yes
Event Date: 
June 15, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
June 15, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 15, 2025
Free Admission: 
yes
Contact Information: 

Spring Creek Project, Oregon State University, 330 Ballard Extension Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331. Carly Lettero, Program Manager.

Carly Lettero
Program Manager
Contact City: 
Corvallis
Contact State: 
OR
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
97331
Country: 
US
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Cabin at Shotpouch Creek
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Protoplasmic Poetry

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Michael McClure, whose poetry Allen Ginsberg described as "a blob of protoplasmic energy," performs one of his poems as well as one by Emily Dickinson in this clip from 2007. McClure's Of Indigo and Saffron: New and Selected Poems, which includes an introduction by the late Leslie Scalapino, is out this month from the University of California Press.

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Poetry
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Emily Dickinson
2007
University of California Press
Michael McClure
Indigo and Saffron: New and Selected Poems

New Frost Prize for Formal Poets

G&A: The Contest Blog
1.12.11

The keepers of Robert Frost's family farm in Derry, New Hampshire, where the poet lived from 1900 to 1911, have opened their inaugural formal poetry contest. Sponsored by the trustees of the Robert Frost Farm and the Hyla Brook Poets, a workshop group that holds a reading series at the historic site, the competition is calling for poems written in meter—any metrical form is welcome.

One winner will receive one thousand dollars and an invitation to read in the Hyla Brook series at the Frost Farm, a program that has hosted poets such as Maxine Kumin, Rhina Espaillat, and Wesley McNair. Serving as judge will be William Baer, former editor of the no-longer-published poetry journal the Formalist.

The entry fee is five dollars a poem, and writers may submit as many works as they like—via snail mail—by April 1. Complete guidelines are posted on the Robert Frost Farm Web site.

In the video below, a short film by Doug Williams interprets Frost's poem "Into My Own," originally published as "Into Mine Own" in New England Magazine during the time Frost lived at the Derry farm, in 1909.

January 10

The Time Is Now
1.10.11

Write an erasure poem: Rip out one or two pages from a magazine or newspaper. Read through them, underlining words and phrases that appeal to you and that relate to each other. Using a marker or Wite-Out, begin to delete the words around those you underlined, leaving words and phrases that you might want to use. Keep deleting the extra language, working to construct poetic lines with the words you’ve chosen to keep.

January 3

The Time Is Now
1.3.11

Choose a favorite poem written by somebody else, type a copy of it, delete every other line from the poem, and write your own lines to replace those you’ve deleted. Next, delete the remaining lines from the old poem so that only your lines remain. Read what you have, and revise it, adding new lines to fill in the gaps.

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