The 10th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival was held in Delray Beach at Delray Beach Center for the Arts, January 18-24, 2014. Participants enjoyed six days of readings, lectures, craft talks, and poetry workshops. The workshop faculty included: Nick Flynn, Carolyn Forche, Linda Gregg, Thomas Lux, Campbell McGrath, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Mary Ruefle, and Tim Seibles. Our Special Guest Poet Natasha Tretheway (United States Poet Laureate 2012-2014) presented the 10th Anniversary Gala Reading, Taylor Mali and Glenis Redmond served as the festival’s performance poets, and Sally Bliumis-Dunn, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Traci Brimhall, Ginger Murchison, and Chard deNiord were the festival’s additional featured poets.
2013 WORKSHOPS
Nick Flynn, POETRY AS BEWILDERMENT
Carolyn Forche, CREATE AND CRITIQUE
Linda Gregg, CRAFT OF THE INVISIBLE
Thomas Lux, WORD BY WORD, LINE BY LINE
Campbell McGrath, PEELING THE ONION: REVEALING THE LYRIC VOICE
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, BRINGING THE OUTSIDE IN
Mary Ruefle, THE POEM ON THE TABLE
Tim Seibles, IT’S ALL IN THE DETAILS
2013 CRAFT TALKS
Nick Flynn, On Collaboration: How to Rattle the Cage of Ego
Carolyn Forche, Poetry and Time: The Art of Temporal Space
Linda Gregg, The Craft of the Invisible
Thomas Lux, The Reason for Rhyme in Berryman’s Dream Songs
Campbell McGrath, Finding the Source: Poetic Inspiration and Subject Matter
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Landscapes & Light: Poetry and the Natural World
Mary Ruefle, On Erasure: Visual and Textual
Tim Seibles, A Seduction: Metaphor and the Come Hither