Genre: Poetry

Hemingway-Pfeiffer Writer-in-Residence Program

The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center at Arkansas State University offers a monthlong residency in June to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators in Piggott, Arkansas. The residency includes a loft apartment on the downtown square in Piggott, a $1,000 stipend to help cover food and transportation costs, and the opportunity to write in the studio where Ernest Hemingway worked on A Farewell to Arms in 1928. The writer-in-residence will serve as a mentor for eight to ten writers in a weeklong retreat at the education center.

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RESIDENCY
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Event Date: 
June 1, 2024
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no
Application Deadline: 
February 28, 2024
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no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
April 30, 2024
Free Admission: 
yes
Contact Information: 

Hemingway-Pfeiffer Writer-in-Residence Program, 1913 Museum Row, Piggott, AR 72454. (870) 598-3487. Adam Long, Executive Director.

Adam Long
Executive Director
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Piggott
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AR
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72454
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US
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Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation

Kauai Writers Conference

The 2024 Kauai Writers Conference will be held from November 11 to November 17 at the Royal Sonesta Resort on Kalapaki Beach in Kauai, Hawai’i. The event features a three-day conference, master classes, one-on-one agent sessions, and publishing consultations for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers.

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CONFERENCE
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Event Date: 
November 11, 2024
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
April 30, 2024
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
April 30, 2024
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Kauai Writers Conference, P.O. Box 37, Kapaa, HI 96746. David Katz, Director. davidk@kauaiwritersconference.com

David Katz
Director
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Kauai
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HI
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US
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Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Victoria Chang on Grief and Art

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“This year I turned my back to the world. I let language face // the front. The parting felt like a death.” In this About the Authors TV video, Victoria Chang speaks about her award-winning collection, Obit (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), and reads a poem from her new collection, With My Back to the World (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024), which engages with the paintings and writings of Agnes Martin.

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Poetry
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Victoria Chang
Obit
Copper Canyon Press
With My Back to the World
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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May/June 2024

Wisdom in Translation

The Time Is Now
4.30.24

In the anthology Another Room to Live In: 15 Contemporary Arab Poets (Litmus Press, 2024) edited by Omar Berrada and Sarah Riggs, multinational and multilingual poet-translators challenge foundational narratives and rework mythologies through poetic expression. Yasmine Seale’s poem “Conventional Wisdom (Arabic Saying Translated Twenty Ways)” is composed of translations of an ancient aphorism expressing the inextricable place of poetry within Arab cultural heritage. Each line presents a variation on the truism: “Poetry is the record of the Arabs / The art of poetry is Arabs, collected / Good poetry is a list of Arabs / To speak in verse is to remain in Arab memory / To surpass another poet is the Arab odyssey.” Write a poem inspired by this idea of translating a proverb or maxim—either from another language or from English into English. How might you creatively interpolate different “translations” of the saying by incorporating connotations and riffing on free associations and personal experiences?

Poetry in America: Phillis Wheatley

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“When I sit down, I invite that muse, that ardor, that passion to get to some place of discovery.” In this preview for the season four premiere of the public television series Poetry in America, poets Richard Blanco and Amanda Gorman, among other writers and scholars, join host Elisa New to discuss two poems by pioneering Black poet Phillis Wheatley. Watch the full episode here.

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Poetry
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Poetry in America
Phillis Wheatley
Richard Blanco
Amanda Gorman
Elisa New
television series
trailer
2024

Ada Limón Introduces You Are Here

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In this inaugural Mary Oliver Memorial Event, U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón introduces her signature project which includes site-specific poetry installations in seven national parks and the anthology You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World, published by Milkweed Editions in association with the Library of Congress. Limón is joined by poets Molly McCully Brown, Jake Skeets, Analicia Sotelo, and Paul Tran for a reading and conversation.

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Poetry
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Ada Limón
You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
Milkweed Editions
Library of Congress
Mary Oliver Memorial Event
Mary Oliver
Paul Tran
Analicia Sotelo
Jake Skeets
Molly McCully Brown
Carla Hayden
2024

Nam Le: 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem

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In this Politics and Prose event, Dylan Thomas Prize–winning author Nam Le reads from his debut poetry collection, 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem (Knopf, 2024), and discusses the choice to write poetry rather than prose, and the sometimes questionable authority of writing about trauma in a conversation with Natasha Sajé.

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Poetry
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Nam Le
36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem
Knopf
Natasha Sajé
Politics and Prose Bookstore
2024

From Dirt Level

The Time Is Now
4.23.24

In Sharon Olds’s poem “May 1968,” the speaker recounts the memory of spending the night with other protesting students, who lay down their bodies on a New York City street at a university’s campus gates in order to obstruct the mounted police force that had been called in. While “spine-down on the cobbles,” she observes the city and surrounding scenery—the soaring buildings and the police and horses’ bodies—as she gazes upward, thinking about the state of her pregnant body. Write a poem this week from the vantage point of lying face-up, “from dirt level.” What circumstances bring you into this position? How does this upward point of view transform what you see, and how you feel about your own body?

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