OfficeHoursPoetry

We welcome all poets, especially people of color, LGBTQ+, and those who are femme-identified.

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In collaboration with @POETSorg, the @Guggenheim is seeking a contemporary poet with a strong interest in art & public engagement for its third annual Poet-in-Residence position. Applications to the 2024 residency are being accepted online through 1/31/24: https://t.co/w8jjvcfquL

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Join us Friday, December 15th, 2023 at 7:00 PM EDT for the Office Hours Fall 2023 Showcase Reading, a hybrid event (both in person readers & virtual). Fellows will give a brief reading in celebration of another strong semester of poetry making, community building,

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Carrie Hohmann
Holly Mitchell
Sarah M. Sala
Shakeema Smalls
Noel Sikorski

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Join us for a Virtual Craft Class & Reading with Omotara James on Thursday, September 28th, 2023. Craft Class will run from 6:30PM-8:30 PM EST. Followed by a reading from 8:30 PM-8:45 PM.

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and despair? What does the modern discourse on desire leave out? Come ready to write yourself into the cannon. This experience will be more of a writing lab than a workshop, so arrive ready to connect, experiment, and play!

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FREE Office Hours Poetry Workshop Craft Class Alert! Don't miss this opportunity to jump start your everyday writing rituals!

Check out this virtual Craft Class and reading with author Darrel Alejandro Holnes this THURSDAY, December 1st, 2022 from 6:30 PM-8:30 PM ET.

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Arguably the greatest American novelist Toni Morrison lays this out in depth in her Nobel Prize speech and Playing in the Dark: Whiteness & the Literary Imagination. Please educate yourself and avoid burdening your Black colleagues: https://t.co/buz7U62bxi

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Your uninterrogated racism will lead to bad craft. They’re not mutually exclusive. So over discussions of racism in a text being shut down w/ “we need to talk about the craft.” Uninterrogated racism leads to character underdevelopment, weak symbolism, contrivance & plain failure.

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Coggin is Associate Editor at The Rise Up Review. She lives with her wife and their two adorable dogs in the valley of a small mountain in Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas.

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So delighted to announce registration is open for Kai Coggin's FREE Office Hours Writing Workshop virtual craft class on "The Open Letter" with a reading to follow. Any donations registrants make go directly to the instructor. https://t.co/OlCxPv2yn0

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Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in POETRY, Cultural Weekly, SOLSTICE, Bellevue Literary Review, TAB, Entropy, SWWIM, Split This Rock, Sinister Wisdom, Lavender Review, Luna Luna, Blue Heron Review, Tupelo Press, West Trestle Review, and elsewhere.