2014 Palm Beach Poetry Festival

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 NezhukumatathilMary 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