Tuesday, May 21
Wednesday, May 22
Thursday, May 23
Friday, May 24
Tuesday, May 21
10:00 a.m. Check-in
12:00-1:00 Lunch, Mercy Center Dining Hall
1:15-2:30
- Participant Readings
- Poets & Social Media, Melissa Balmain (Chair), Anna M. Evans, Daniel Galef, Nicole Caruso Garcia
2:45-4:00
- Editing, Allison Joseph (Chair), Dustin Brookshire, Lesley Wheeler
- A Road Less Traveled: Taking Another Look at Robert Frost, Mia Grogan (Chair), Ned Balbo, Clare Rossini
4:15-5:45
- Poems On Memory, Al Basile (Chair), David M. Katz, Alexis Sears
- Austin Allen One-Day Workshop
6:00-7:00 Opening Reception
7:00-8:00 Dinner
8:30-9:45 Faculty Reading: Anna M. Evans, David Groff, Allison Joseph, David Yezzi
Wednesday, May 22
8:00-10:00 Coffee
9:00-10:15
- Participant Readings, featuring Jean L. Kreiling, Sonnet Winner
9:00-10:30 Clare Rossini One-Day Workshop
10:30-11:45
- Faculty Reading: Chad Abushanab, Austin Allen, Melissa Balmain
- Extending Ekphrasis: Embracing Responses in Poems to All Forms of Art, David Groff (Chair), Anna M. Evans, Elaine Sexton
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-3:00 TWO- & Three-Day Workshops and Seminars: BALMAIN, GROFF, KATZ, MEHIGAN.
3:15-4:30
- Is There a Plot In This Poem? Chad Abushanab (Chair)
- New Books 1, Barbara Lydecker Crane, Barbara Crooker, Daniel Galef, Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, Wendy Sloan
4:45-6:00
- In Conversation with David Yezzi, David M. Katz
6:00-7:00 Reception
7:00-8:30 Keynote Banquet
- Presentation to Contest Award Winners
8:45-9:45 Keynote Address and Reading: Gregory Pardlo, introduced by Nicole Caruso Garcia
Thursday, May 23
8:00-10:00 Coffee
9:00-10:15
- Participant Readings, featuring Barbara Lydecker Crane, Sonnet Crown Winner
9:00-10:30 Alexis Sears One-Day Workshop
10:45-12:00 In Conversation with Gregory Pardlo, Allison Joseph
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-3:00 TWO- & Three-Day Workshops and Seminars: ABUSHANAB, BALMAIN, GROFF, KATZ, MEHIGAN.
3:15-4:30
- Poetic Collaboration in Artists’ Books, Angela Alaimo O’Donnell (Chair), Holly Trostle Brigham, Marilyn Nelson, Wendy Sloan
- Spotlight Readers: January Gill O’Neil and Teri Ellen Cross Davis, introduced by Anna M. Evans
4:45-6:00
- Poetry by the Sea Lecture: Rhythm and Affect: The Sounds of Feeling in Poetry, David Yezzi, introduced by Linda Stern
6:00-7:00 Reception
7:00-8:00 Dinner
8:30-9:45 Faculty Reading: David M. Katz, Joshua Mehigan, Clare Rossini, Alexis Sears
Friday, May 24
8:00-10:00 Coffee
9:00-10:15
- Participant Reading featuring PBTS Staff (Patricia Behrens, Nicole Caruso Garcia, Linda Stern) and Work-Study Scholars
9:00-10:30 Allison Joseph One-Day Workshop
10:45- 12:00
- New Books 2, Anton Yakovlev (Chair), Melissa Balmain, David M. Katz, Chelsea Woodard
- Moving Images: Where Poetry Meets the Screen, Austin Allen (Chair), Joshua Mehigan, Alexis Sears, Lesley Wheeler
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-3:00 Two- and Three-Day Workshops and Seminars: ABUSHANAB, BALMAIN, KATZ, MEHIGAN.
Good-bye until next year!
Adiós hasta el próximo año!
Au revoir jusqu’à l’année prochaine!
Auf Wiedersehen bis zum nächsten Jahr!
Arrivederci al prossimo anno!
Vaarwel tot volgend jaar!
Tuesday, May 21
Wednesday, May 22
Thursday, May 23
Friday, May 24