Virtual Programming

Click here to join today's poetry session. Julia Lisella’s latest collection of poems, Our Lively Kingdom (Bordighera Press), was named a finalist in the 2023 Paterson Book Prize and Grand Prize Finalist and Poetry Honorable Mention for the Eric Hoffer Book Award. Her other collections include Always, Terrain, and the chapbook, Love Song Hiroshima. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Alaska Quarterly, The Common,…

Click here for today's online poetry Julie Danho’s first full-length collection, Those Who Keep Arriving, won the 2018 Gerald Cable Book Award from Silverfish Review Press. Her chapbook, Six Portraits, received the 2013 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Award, and her poems have appeared in journals such as Pleiades, Alaska Quarterly Review, Blackbird, and New Ohio Review as well as featured on The Writer's Almanac, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily. She has…

Click here for the link to join this session. Kathryn Petruccelli Workshop leader, teacher, and writer with roots in spoken word, Kathryn holds an MA in teaching English language learners. Through her work—much of which involves themes of language and place—she hopes to inspire folks to examine cultural habits and other invisible forces. Her poetry…

Click here to join the poetry session. Karren LaLonde Alenier is editor of From the Belly: Poets Respond to Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons and author of eight poetry collections, including How We Hold On (Broadstone, 2021). She writes a monthly column for Scene4 Magazine called The Steiny Road to Operadom. Gertrude Stein Invents a Jump…

Click here to join the poetry session. John W. Maxwell was born in 1960 into a working-class family of eight in rural Michigan. He quietly began writing poetry for himself at age 12. His writing continued throughout high school and college, cataloging the struggles of adolescence and young adulthood. He stashed them in a raggedy…