Tremendous thanks to all our panelists and attendees for the spring IWWG Poetry Palooza panel! One attendee commented in the chat “Poetry church!” and we all agreed.

If you missed it, you can watch the Zoom recording to hear from a stellar lineup of award-winning poets and teachers talk about growth and renewal for creatives in the new year and how to find inspiration for generating new work with a focus on  craft and revision. Our award-winning panelists include:

• Alina Stefanescu, poet, author, and bibliomaniac
• Khalisa Rae, poet, educator, and journalist
• Sherre Vernon, poet, educator, and mentor
• Allison Joseph, poet, professor, and founder of CRWROPPS (Creative Writers Opportunities List)
• Jenn Givhan, poet, novelist, and mentor

You can find our upcoming Poetry Palooza events HERE. 

• Register for Alina’s Sonnetmania workshop, which goes from February 11th to March 4th. and check out Alina’s website HERE.
• Mark your calendars for Jenn’s Friday Free Write February 24th, and check out Jenn’s website HERE
• Mark your calendars for Khalisa’s Friday Free Write on March 17th. Register for Khalisa’s Magical Realism Workshop on March 18th, and check out Khalisa’s website HERE.
• Register for Sherre’s Building Poems from Scraps Workshop on March 19th, and check out Sherre’s website HERE.
• Allison’s Friday Free Write for April, “You Can Flail But You Won’t Fail: Vulnerability and Verbal Art” will be up on the site soon! Check out Allison’s website HERE.
• Make sure not to miss our National Poetry Month special event Thursday, April 20 at 7pm eastern! Register HERE. We’re excited to be featuring one of my favorite poets and former Utah poet laureate Paisley Rekdal, followed by a Q&A and open mic.

  

  Paisley Rekdal is the author of four books of nonfiction, and seven books of poetry, including Nightingale, Appropriate: A Provocation, and the forthcoming West: A Translation. Her work has received the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship, Pushcart Prizes, a Fulbright Fellowship, and various state arts council awards. The former Utah poet laureate, she teaches at the University of Utah where she is a distinguished professor.

  For more about Rekdal’s most recent book of poems, you can read my review of Nightingale by Paisley Rekdal published on 15 Bytes: Utah’s Art Magazine.

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