Month: April 2025

This year’s Conference is lucky to have as one of our Spotlight readers Oliver de la Paz, the 2023-2025 Poet Laureate of Worcester, Mass. You can read his bio here.  In one of his recent books, The Boy in the Labyrinth, de la Paz engages deeply with the experience of raising his neurodivergent sons. Asked in a … Read More

Perhaps no major poet other than Thomas Hardy rivals W. H. Auden in the variety of verse forms, meters, stanzas, and rhyme schemes the poet makes use of. If you’re interested  in a deep study of Auden with like-minded poets, this year’s Master Poets Critical Seminar: The Forms of Auden might be for you.  Seminar attendees gather over … Read More