Workshop: Poetry
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Poetry In Practice
Poetry with Amanda Johnston
Being a poet is not a passive act. A poet is actively engaged in the practice of observing, creating, and sharing their work. During this workshop, participants will draft new poems and revise them, experiment with poetic forms, and prepare manuscripts of 2-3 poems for submission to literary journals.
SUBMIT
After registering, each participant in the poetry workshop is asked to submit two poems in advance.
Please send your submission by 9:00 a.m. on February 23. Please email the manuscripts as attachments to director@mainewriters.org with the subject line: “JOHNSTON SNOWBOUND MSS.” *Word files are preferred, but you may also send a PDF.
Amanda Johnston earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine. She is the author of two chapbooks, GUAP and Lock & Key, and the full-length collection Another Way to Say Enter. Her work has appeared in numerous online and print publications, among them, Callaloo, Poetry Magazine, Puerto del Sol, Muzzle, and the anthologies, Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry and Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism. She has received fellowships, grants, and awards from Cave Canem Foundation, Hedgebrook, the Kentucky Foundation for Women, and the Austin International Poetry Festival. She is a member of the Affrilachian Poets, cofounder of Black Poets Speak Out, and founder of Torch Literary Arts. She teaches at the Stonecoast MFA program.