Genre: Poetry

Vermont Studio Center

March/April 2025

The Vermont Studio Center offers two-, three-, and four-week residencies year-round to poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators in Johnson, Vermont, a village located in the heart of the northern Green Mountains. Residents are provided with time and space to write, as well as readings, craft talks, and one-on-one manuscript consultations with invited visiting writers. Residents receive a private room, a private studio, and meals. The cost of the residency is $2,700 for a two-week stay, $3,825 for a three-week stay, and $4,950 for a four-week stay.

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RESIDENCY
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April 30, 2025
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no
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March 31, 2025
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yes
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March 31, 2025
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no
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Vermont Studio Center, 80 Pearl Street, P.O. Box 613, Johnson, VT 05656. (802) 635-2727.

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The ABCs of Art

The Time Is Now
4.29.25

In “Leaving the Psychologist: An Abecedarian Ekphrastic,” published in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, Grisel Y. Acosta combines two poetic forms—the abecedarian, in which the first letter of each line follows alphabetical order, and the ekphrastic, which describes or responds to a work of visual art. In Acosta’s poem, she uses a 1960 painting by Spanish Mexican Surrealist artist Remedios Varo titled “Mujer saliendo del psicoanalista” as inspiration: “another face has sprouted in my chest / beastly, that’s me, a super freak / cavorting with your skull in my grasp….” Inspired by Acosta’s creation of combined forms, write your own abecedarian ekphrastic poem. Search for an image of a painting or other work of visual art that invokes a feeling of expansiveness or cyclicality. Allow this to buoy your path from A to Z.

Yuki Tanaka: Chronicle of Drifting

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“If only the sky were kind enough to lend me his blue coat.” In this video, Yuki Tanaka reads an excerpt from the title poem of his debut collection, Chronicle of Drifting (Copper Canyon Press, 2025), which is featured in Page One in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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May/June 2025

Dear Poet 2025: Jericho Brown

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“The loneliest people have the earth to love / And not one friend their own age.” Jericho Brown reads his poem “Labor,” which appears in his second poetry collection, The New Testament (Copper Canyon Press, 2014), in this video for the Dear Poet series, the Academy of American Poets’ educational project for National Poetry Month.

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2025

Reading and Lecture by Reginald Dwayne Betts

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“I was doing nine years in prison, and poems became my way to see the world.” In this Common Read event hosted by the Sims Memorial Library at Southeastern Louisiana University, Reginald Dwayne Betts, author of Felon (Norton, 2020), answers questions from the audience and presents a lecture and reading introduced by Louisiana poet laureate Alison Pelegrin.

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Victoria Chang at Villanova University

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In this Villanova University Literary Festival event, Victoria Chang reads from her poetry collections Obit (Copper Canyon Press, 2020) and With My Back to the World (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024), and speaks about her ekphrastic poems and the power of writing in conversation with other artists and people in her life.

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2025

Lulled in Flowers

The Time Is Now
4.22.25

From the wildflowers of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream to the white lilies of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus, flowers have played a significant role in literature and are symbolic in many cultures. Floriography is known as the “language of flowers” and is a means of expressing emotion through the use of flowers—a method of discreet communication that has existed for millennia and saw heightened popularity during the Victorian era. Whether depicted in a painting, presented as a gift, used as commemorative decor, or worn as an accessory, a flower can symbolize gratitude, love, remembrance, trust, good health, or even danger. Spend some time looking into the language of flowers and write a poem that deploys floriography in some way, perhaps to express something you’ve kept secret until now.

History of Display by Rob Macaisa Colgate

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In this Lambda Literary video, Rob Macaisa Colgate reads “History of Display,” which appears in his debut poetry collection, Hardly Creatures (Tin House Books, 2025). The collection is featured in Page One in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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May/June 2025

Poets on the Coast: A Weekend Retreat for Women

May/June 2025

The 2025 Poets on the Coast: A Weekend Retreat for Women will be held from September 5 to September 7 at the La Conner Inn in La Conner, Washington. The retreat features poetry workshops and one-on-one mentoring with faculty. The faculty includes poets Elizabeth Bradfield, Susan Landgraf, and Susan Rich. Tuition, which does not include lodging or meals, is $579 until May 31 or $589 thereafter, until August 15. Lodging is available at the conference hotel at a nightly rate of $169 to $199. A limited number of scholarships are available. Registration is first come, first served.

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CONFERENCE
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Event Date: 
September 5, 2025
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Application Deadline: 
April 30, 2025
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yes
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
July 15, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
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Poets on the Coast: A Weekend Retreat for Women, P.O. Box 16037, Seattle, WA 98116. (360) 466-3101.

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