Poetry Workshops, Residencies & Retreats
The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
Founded in 1926, Bread Loaf is the grandaddy of American writers’ conferences, held each summer in Vermont’s Green Mountain Forest. David Baker, Linda Bierds, Michael Collier, Toi Derricotte, Mark Doty, Linda Gregerson & Carl Phillips are the 2006 poetry faculty, August 16 to 27.
Founded in 1926, Bread Loaf is the grandaddy of American writers’ conferences, held each summer in Vermont’s Green Mountain Forest. David Baker, Linda Bierds, Michael Collier, Toi Derricotte, Mark Doty, Linda Gregerson & Carl Phillips are the 2006 poetry faculty, August 16 to 27.
Cave Canem Summer Workshop/Retreat
Cave Canem, devoted since 1996 to “the discovery and cultivation of new voices in African American poetry,” offers a week-long intensive retreat, “the challenge of creating a poem every day... a place to take risks,” in June at the University of Pittsburgh in Greenburg, Pennsylvania.
Cave Canem, devoted since 1996 to “the discovery and cultivation of new voices in African American poetry,” offers a week-long intensive retreat, “the challenge of creating a poem every day... a place to take risks,” in June at the University of Pittsburgh in Greenburg, Pennsylvania.
Centrum’s Port Townsend Writers Conference
This annual summer conference on the Olympic peninsula is closely allied with Copper Canyon Press; its original director was Sam Hamill, Copper Canyon editor and founder of Poets Against the War. Now led by Artistic Director Cristina García, the conference offers “workshops, residencies, guided freewrites, and a vibrant readings and lectures series presented by vital, contemporary writers.”
This annual summer conference on the Olympic peninsula is closely allied with Copper Canyon Press; its original director was Sam Hamill, Copper Canyon editor and founder of Poets Against the War. Now led by Artistic Director Cristina García, the conference offers “workshops, residencies, guided freewrites, and a vibrant readings and lectures series presented by vital, contemporary writers.”
Fine Arts Work Center Poetry Workshops
Alan Dugan & Stanley Kunitz were among the founders of the Fine Arts Work Center on Cape Cod, which since 1968 has offered residencies to support “talented individuals at the outset of their careers,” a rich program of readings & shows, and an extensive schedule of week-long arts workshops. Choose a week, a poet-mentor, sign up and go!
Alan Dugan & Stanley Kunitz were among the founders of the Fine Arts Work Center on Cape Cod, which since 1968 has offered residencies to support “talented individuals at the outset of their careers,” a rich program of readings & shows, and an extensive schedule of week-long arts workshops. Choose a week, a poet-mentor, sign up and go!
Frost Place Festival, Conference & Seminar
In its 28th year in 2006, the annual Frost Place Festival & Conference of Poetry offers a week of lectures, readings & workshops with guest poets Lynn Emanuel, Carl Phillips, Kimiko Hahn, Tony Hoagland, Jane Hirshfield & Robert Farnsworth. It is followed by the Frost Place Seminar, “a Master Class for alumni of the Festival... limited to 16 participants,” taught by Baron Wormser with guest poets.
In its 28th year in 2006, the annual Frost Place Festival & Conference of Poetry offers a week of lectures, readings & workshops with guest poets Lynn Emanuel, Carl Phillips, Kimiko Hahn, Tony Hoagland, Jane Hirshfield & Robert Farnsworth. It is followed by the Frost Place Seminar, “a Master Class for alumni of the Festival... limited to 16 participants,” taught by Baron Wormser with guest poets.
Iowa Summer Writing Festival
The University of Iowa is home to the world-famous Iowa Writers’ Workshop MFA program (founded on the premise that “writing cannot be taught but that writers can be encouraged”) and also offers this annual summer program of weekend & week-long workshops, “opportunity for you to share your work in a community that wishes it well.”
The University of Iowa is home to the world-famous Iowa Writers’ Workshop MFA program (founded on the premise that “writing cannot be taught but that writers can be encouraged”) and also offers this annual summer program of weekend & week-long workshops, “opportunity for you to share your work in a community that wishes it well.”
Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics
At this year’s Summer Writing Program at the Naropa Institute (under the artistic direction of Anne Waldman, with Lisa Birman as director), each week between June 19 & July 16 has its own theme: “Ecology of Mind and Planet/Poethics,” “Critical Edge/Dialectics/A Poetics of Prose,” “The Continent and Abroad” & “Media & Performance & Collaboration.”
At this year’s Summer Writing Program at the Naropa Institute (under the artistic direction of Anne Waldman, with Lisa Birman as director), each week between June 19 & July 16 has its own theme: “Ecology of Mind and Planet/Poethics,” “Critical Edge/Dialectics/A Poetics of Prose,” “The Continent and Abroad” & “Media & Performance & Collaboration.”
Kenyon Review Writers Workshop
The Kenyon Review Writers Workshop was “created to offer the time, setting, and community for serious writers to practice and develop their art” each summer at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio and in Italy.
The Kenyon Review Writers Workshop was “created to offer the time, setting, and community for serious writers to practice and develop their art” each summer at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio and in Italy.
Omega Institute: “Discovering the Poem”
Omega Institute, a holistic learning center founded in 1977, has offered summer workshops celebrating poetry for 5 years at its Rhinebeck campus in New York. This year, Ted Kooser & Mary Karr are giving a weekend workshop on creation & revision.
Omega Institute, a holistic learning center founded in 1977, has offered summer workshops celebrating poetry for 5 years at its Rhinebeck campus in New York. This year, Ted Kooser & Mary Karr are giving a weekend workshop on creation & revision.
Poetry Alive! Institute
Poetry Alive! used to offer annual summer residencies for educators, but the Poetry Institute is now year-round & brought to the school districts as an in-service program, so that teachers don’t have to leave home to participate in the workshop on teaching performance & poetry in the classroom.
Poetry Alive! used to offer annual summer residencies for educators, but the Poetry Institute is now year-round & brought to the school districts as an in-service program, so that teachers don’t have to leave home to participate in the workshop on teaching performance & poetry in the classroom.
Poetry Slam Cross Training Camp
A coterie of Slam champions do this 3-day intensive conference on craft, performance, editing, publishing, teaching & promoting each June in Oneonta, New York.
A coterie of Slam champions do this 3-day intensive conference on craft, performance, editing, publishing, teaching & promoting each June in Oneonta, New York.
Prague Summer Program
To spend July exploring the booming English-speaking expat scene in Prague & get some writing done at the same time, try the summer program offered by Western Michigan University & Charles University of Prague, where you can do morning creative writing workshops and afternoon cultural studies courses.
To spend July exploring the booming English-speaking expat scene in Prague & get some writing done at the same time, try the summer program offered by Western Michigan University & Charles University of Prague, where you can do morning creative writing workshops and afternoon cultural studies courses.
The San Juan Writing Workshop
A true retreat, to a small town high in the mountains of Southern Colorado: “The goal of the San Juan Workshops is to remove writers from the hectic pace of everyday life and give them the inspiration, space, and quiet to attend to their writing.”
A true retreat, to a small town high in the mountains of Southern Colorado: “The goal of the San Juan Workshops is to remove writers from the hectic pace of everyday life and give them the inspiration, space, and quiet to attend to their writing.”
San Miguel Poetry Week
Poetry classes, workshops & readings in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, usually in January. Faculty have included such luminaries as W.S. Merwin, Mark Doty, Robert Hass, Carolyn Kizer & Yusef Komunyakaa.
Poetry classes, workshops & readings in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, usually in January. Faculty have included such luminaries as W.S. Merwin, Mark Doty, Robert Hass, Carolyn Kizer & Yusef Komunyakaa.
Summer Literary Seminars in Kenya
Kenya being in the Southern hemisphere, it’s not really a misnomer to call this December program a summer literary seminar. A week of intensive writing workshops in Nairobi is intended to offer unique cultural access; participants may then go on safari, or go directly to the program’s 2nd location, Lamu Island, for a writing retreat & reading series.
Kenya being in the Southern hemisphere, it’s not really a misnomer to call this December program a summer literary seminar. A week of intensive writing workshops in Nairobi is intended to offer unique cultural access; participants may then go on safari, or go directly to the program’s 2nd location, Lamu Island, for a writing retreat & reading series.
Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg
Since 1999, Summer Literary Seminars has brought American & Russian writers together in St. Petersburg for readings, workshop sessions & excursions to provide writers with the “creative jolt” from “immersion in a thoroughly foreign culture & street vernacular.” Arkadii Dragomoschenko, Peter Gizzi, Christine Hume, Ann Lauterbach, Alexandr Skidan & Matthew Zapruder are the poetry faculty this year.
Since 1999, Summer Literary Seminars has brought American & Russian writers together in St. Petersburg for readings, workshop sessions & excursions to provide writers with the “creative jolt” from “immersion in a thoroughly foreign culture & street vernacular.” Arkadii Dragomoschenko, Peter Gizzi, Christine Hume, Ann Lauterbach, Alexandr Skidan & Matthew Zapruder are the poetry faculty this year.
Summer Poetry in Idyllwild
The Idyllwild Arts Academy has an annual week-long intensive poetry workshop accompanied by readings & a mini-festival, directed by Cecilia Woloch. This year’s “visiting poets” are Maxine Brigit Pegeen Kelly & James Baker Hall; “poets in residence” are Ellen Bass, Cyrus Cassells, Richard Garcia, Natasha Trethewey & Charles Harper Webb; “guest poets” are Marilyn Chin & David St. John.
The Idyllwild Arts Academy has an annual week-long intensive poetry workshop accompanied by readings & a mini-festival, directed by Cecilia Woloch. This year’s “visiting poets” are Maxine Brigit Pegeen Kelly & James Baker Hall; “poets in residence” are Ellen Bass, Cyrus Cassells, Richard Garcia, Natasha Trethewey & Charles Harper Webb; “guest poets” are Marilyn Chin & David St. John.
The Voices Writing Workshop
The Voices Writing Workshop in San Francisco is “a special gathering of writers of color who spend 1-2 weeks working with well known authors and performers.” The 2006 program offers week-long poetry workshops with Suheir Hammad & Ruth Forman.
The Voices Writing Workshop in San Francisco is “a special gathering of writers of color who spend 1-2 weeks working with well known authors and performers.” The 2006 program offers week-long poetry workshops with Suheir Hammad & Ruth Forman.
Wildacres Writers Workshop
Janice Fuller & Thorpe Moeckel are the poetry staff at this summer’s Wildacres Writers Workshop July 8 - 15 -- summer camp for writers atop Pompey’s Knob in the Blue Ridge Mountains that promises a retreat to wilderness & “the same happy, carefree days you enjoyed as a child.”
Janice Fuller & Thorpe Moeckel are the poetry staff at this summer’s Wildacres Writers Workshop July 8 - 15 -- summer camp for writers atop Pompey’s Knob in the Blue Ridge Mountains that promises a retreat to wilderness & “the same happy, carefree days you enjoyed as a child.”
Yeats Society Sligo Poetry Workshop
Part of the Yeats International Summer School (which is mostly lit-crit & the study of Yeats & Irish writing), the 2-day poetry workshop in August 2006 is being taught by Michael Longley.
Part of the Yeats International Summer School (which is mostly lit-crit & the study of Yeats & Irish writing), the 2-day poetry workshop in August 2006 is being taught by Michael Longley.