MEMBERS ONLY CONTEST CLOSES FEB 15th! SEE BELOW FOR DETAILS TO ENTER!!!
Connie Wanek Featured Presenter at 2019 Spring Workshop
By Tom Spence, Vice President
Connie Wanek. What a find, what a gift! Good work, Katie Smith and Susan Mark! We are all looking forward to WyoPoets Spring Poetry Workshop which will be held in Casper on April 26-27, 2019, at the Holiday Inn East.
Wanek’s honors include the Willow Poetry Prize, the Jane Kenyon Poetry Prize, and a Witter Bynner Fellowship at the Library of Congress. You can learn more about her on the Poetry Foundation's website at www.poetryfoundation.org.
“How many shops would a workshop work if a workshop would shop works?” A timeless question. Nothing happens without that all important local effort, headed up by Vicki Windle and her hardy crew in Casper. Many thanks in advance for all of their efforts.
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MORE INFORMATION AVAILABLE ON THE SPRING WORKSHOP PAGE!!!
CHECK OUT THE PHOTOS FROM 2018 BELOW TO SEE WHAT YOU MISSED!!!
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WYOPOETS MEMBERS ONLY CONTEST
OPENS: December 26, 2018
ENDS: February 16, 2019
WYOPOETS MEMBERS ONLY CONTEST
OPENS: December 26, 2018
ENDS: February 16, 2019
Pens poised? Get ready, get set, go! WyoPoets once again is launching its 2019 Members Only Contest. We are eager to accept your amazing entries. As always, we welcome the use of any poetry form with a 40-line limit for each poem and a three poem entry limit. Details are included on the entry rules document included in this announcement.
We are excited to also announce our judge. Seth Michelson is an award-winning poet, translator, and professor of poetry. He has published sixteen books to date, with two more forthcoming. His books of original poetry include Swimming Through Fire and Eyes Like Broken Windows. His books of poetry in translation include Argentinian poet Tamara Kamenszain’s The Ghetto, Uruguayan poet Melisa Machado’s The Red Song, Israeli poet Amir Or’s Wings, and Indian poet Rati Saxena’s Scripted in the Streams. He also edited and translated the poetry anthology Dreaming America: Voices of Undocumented Youth in Maximum-Security Detention. His honors as a writer include winning an NEA Fellowship, and Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award, the poetry category of the International Book Awards, and a poetry prize from Split This Rock. Seth Michaelson has done readings and talks on poetry across the United States, in Argentina, Armenia, Germany, Kenya, Mexico, India, Slovenia, and Uruguay. He currently teaches poetry of the Americas at Washington and Lee University in Virginia. We are pleased and honored to have his assistance this year as our contest judge.
2018 wyopoets spring poetry workshop was a great event
See the 2018 Brochure!
Fun, fellowship, and the art and craft of poetry abounded at our 2018 WyoPoets Spring Poetry Workshop, held in Cheyenne April 27-28. We hope you enjoy these photos from the workshop and that you will plan to join us in Casper on April 26-27, 2019, for our next workshop.
Fun, fellowship, and the art and craft of poetry abounded at our 2018 WyoPoets Spring Poetry Workshop, held in Cheyenne April 27-28. We hope you enjoy these photos from the workshop and that you will plan to join us in Casper on April 26-27, 2019, for our next workshop.
Our Sponsors
WyoPoets is grateful for the generous support of the 2018 workshop sponsors:
WyoPoets is grateful for the generous support of the 2018 workshop sponsors:
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Dr. Lakhman Gondalia, M.D. Allergy and Asthma Clinic of Wyoming |
Photos from the 2017 workshop in Buffalo
See more photos from the open mic reading and the workshop on Flickr, courtesy of Margaret Smith-Braniff.
