Kenyon Review Reading Series 2021-22
All events sponsored in whole or in part by the
Kenyon Review, the Kenyon College English Department, GLCA New Writers Award, Ohio Arts Council, and the
KR Associates Program.
7:00 p.m. EDT
Join award-winning poet, Maggie Smith, as she launches
Goldenrod, her stunning new poetry collection that celebrates the beauty and messiness of life. Smith will be in conversation with acclaimed poet, educator, editor, and literary critic David Baker in a Zoom Webinar program.
Ohio State University’s Creative Writing Program, Ohio Poetry Association, and
Kenyon Review are Community Partners with Gramercy Books for this poetry evening.
Wyoming Arts Council seeking candidates for $3K fellowship awards By Brendan LaChance on May 3, 2021
Jurors for the 2021 Wyoming Arts Council Fellowships. Clockwise from top left: Molina Parker, Jessica Jacobs, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Kenzi Everitt, Tasha Kubesh, Adrienne Benjamin, Kailyn McCord, Louis Martorano, and Kate Jopson (Wyoming Arts Council)
CASPER, Wyo. The Wyoming Arts Council is accepting applications for fellowships in a variety of areas through June 10. Fellowship recipients will all receive a $3,000 unrestricted award and will have the opportunity to showcase their work in Wyoming.
Fellowships are available in the following areas:
Visual Arts
“Fellowships are open to Wyoming residents, and are merit-based awards,” the Wyoming Arts Council says.
DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi,
The Galleons: Poems by Rick Barot,
Deluge by Leila Chatti,
Catrachos: Poems by Roy G. Guzmán,
A More Perfect Union by Teri Ellen Cross Davis.
DAY: I’m in a unique position in that I have access to so much incredible poetry through my job. The NEA awards grants each year to nonprofit presses to support the publication of some of the country’s best poetry (and prose) books, and we keep a library of those books on our shelves in the office. I also read manuscript excerpts for the Creative Writing Fellowships and often fall in love with a writer’s work that way. And I’m signed up for the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, where they send a poem every morning via email. Once I’ve found one or two poems by a poet that I’m really drawn to, I’m compelled to read more of their work to find more poems like the ones I love.
A University of Memphis professor recently won a 2021 Creative Writing Fellowship that includes an award of $25,000. Poet Marcus Wicker is an associate professor at.
Kalamazoo College. (Photo courtesy of Jeana Gondek).
KALAMAZOO MI (WKZO AM/FM) –Â A Kalamazoo College English professor has received an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Oliver Baez Bendorf will receive $25,000 for a Creative Writing Fellowship from the NEA.
Baez Bendorf is one of 35 winners selected from over 1600 entries.
He says that he will use the fellowship money to fund a future collection of poems, and a possible trip to Germany.
He has written two poetry collections, and won an early career achievement award last year.