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Oct. 7-9, 2011
Scarritt-Bennett Center, Nashville, TN
Deadline extended to Sept. 10.
Scarritt-Bennett Center invites poets to its picturesque campus Oct. 7-9, 2011 for Pen to Paper: A Generative Poetry Retreat featuring poet Jeff Hardin. The retreat will be led by co-faculty, Tanya Jarrett and Christina Stoddard.
Activities include:
• Required and individual writing
• Readings
• Peer feedback sessions
• Craft lectures and workshops
• Individual coaching
• Space for meditation including labyrinth walking
JEFF HARDIN teaches at Columbia State Community College in Columbia, TN. His recent and forthcoming poems appear in The Hudson Review, The Southern Review, Ploughshares, The Gettysburg Review, Grist, Measure, Smartish Pace, Iron Horse Literary Review, Sou’wester, Zone 3, Meridian, The Florida Review, and Southern Poetry Review, among others. He is the author of two chapbooks, Deep in the Shallows (GreenTower Press) and The Slow Hill Out (Pudding House). His first collection, Fall Sanctuary, received the 2004 Nicholas Roerich Prize from Story Line Press.
CHRISTINA STODDARD'S poems have appeared in Asheville Poetry Review, Cave Wall, Tar River Poetry, Slipstream, and The Texas Review, among others. A former assistant poetry editor of The Greensboro Review and the International Poetry Review, she is currently Managing Editor of the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, an economics journal.
T.J. JARRETT, a contributor at Breadloaf Writer's Conference and Palm Beach Poetry Festival, has had recent work published or forthcoming in Linebreak, Boston Literary Review, African American Review, DIAGRAM, Apple Valley Review and Pluck! Journal of Affrilachian Arts and Culture and other publications.
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Application with three poems and short biography required by September 10.
Download application form and flier (Word doc)
For more info call (615) 340-7540 or email jsohl@scarrittbennett.org.
Standard Package: $240; Upgraded Package: $280 (packages include 2 night’s stay, 6 meals, tuition and taxes); No commuter package due to intense nature of workshop.
Where: Scarritt-Bennett Center
1008 19th Ave South
Nashville, TN 37212
Schedule
Friday, October 7
3:30-5:30 pm Registration
4:00-5:00 pm Meet and greet
5:30-6:30 pm Dinner
7:00-9:00 pm Introduction to event, announcements, and introduction of faculty
Craft Lecture I
Saturday, October 8
7:30-8:30 am Breakfast
9:00-11:00 am Workshop I
11:30-12:30 pm Lunch
Writing Time
4:00-5:00 pm Craft Lecture II
5:30-6:30 pm Dinner
7:00 pm Poetry Reading
Sunday, October 9
7:30-8:30 am Breakfast
9:00-11:00 am Workshop II
11:30-12:30 pm Lunch
1:00-2:00 pm Craft Lecture III
2:30-4:00 pm Open mike and closing
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