This year’s Conference is offering participants the chance to sign up for private consultations with a poet known for her metrical acumen—our own Anna M. Evans. The consultations are ideal for poets fine-tuning their grasp of metrics, as well as for poets just starting to use meter and form in their work. Anna can work … Read More
It’s with great excitement that we look forward to welcoming Marilyn Chin as Keynote for the May 23-26 Conference this year. Apart from her exceptional renown as a poet, Chin is also esteemed as a translator of Chinese, Vietnamese, and (along with a co-translator) Japanese poetry. Talking about her book Hard Love Province in a 2015 interview, Chin elucidated some of her … Read More
If you were fortunate enough to catch the recent “She Who Wrote” exhibit at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City, you saw a remarkable display of texts written by the ancient Mesopotamian high priestess and poet Enheduanna (circa 2300 BCE), the “earliest-named author in world literature.” But that important literary fact wouldn’t have taken you by surprise … Read More
Poetry by the Sea has been invited by Morningside Poetry Series to give a celebratory group reading in Manhattan. Sunday, March 26, 2023Suite Bar, 992 Amsterdam Avenue (at W 109th Street)3-5 pm Current and past PBTS faculty and participants who have graciously agreed to read include John Wall Barger, Herman Beavers, Patricia Behrens, Shaune Bornholdt, … Read More
This year’s fine selection of One-Day Workshops means participants can select from several excellent workshop options on nearly every day of the conference. And since One-Day Workshops do not overlap time-wise with each other or with Three- and Two-Day Workshops, you can choose just one—or even all four. Here’s a short intro to each workshop. Visit the 2023 … Read More
We’re excited to announce the inauguration of the Jon Tribble Editors Fellowship. This award, sponsored by Jon’s wife, Allison Joseph, and Jon’s family, honors Jon’s lifetime contribution to poetry and the poetry community through his work as an editor. Likewise, we are delighted to say that Kevin Durkin is the recipient of this first Jon Tribble … Read More
For the first time, Poetry by the Sea is excited to be offering a Master Poets Critical Seminar as part of the May 23-26, 2023, Conference. Led by poet David M. Katz, the three-day seminar will zero in on the work of Marianne Moore. Generally regarded as one of the great geniuses of Modernism, Moore … Read More
As part of our commitment to bringing poetry to a wider audience, we tried to record all the panels and readings from the 2022 conference. Here is the first from that series, the Faculty Reading from Tuesday May 24th, 8:30 p.m. featuring Austin Allen, Melissa Balmain (17:30), Anna M. Evans (32:00), and Annie Finch (46:00). … Read More
The Virgin Learning to Read by Julia Griffin The mother smiles, one finger poised to guideHer daughter’s eyes along a page of wood. The child’s small hands hold up the book: a good Pupil. We cannot see the text inside. How kindly those old sculptors understood: – Behold a girl, her parents’ care and pride,Endowed with a humanity deniedTo … Read More
Gronnets by Julia Griffin My mother’s mother’s father looked like Einstein:So Grandma said, and photos bear it out.Sadly, the likeness stopped there, though no doubtHe had his strengths: finding his prospects fenced inBy dangerous Europe, fearing to be pounced on,He sailed for Liberty, alone, a scoutFor wife and son. They joined him, in aboutFive years: … Read More
