8th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival January 16-21, 2012

(scroll down for detailed schedule)

THE DEADLINE TO APPLY FOR A WORKSHOP HAS PASSED. TICKETS TO INDIVIDUAL EVENTS ARE ON SALE NOW.

Apply to attend a workshop! Festival workshops are limited to 12 qualified participants and 3 auditors to provide a meaningful level of discussion, and careful, informed attention to your work. (scroll down for detailed schedule) To apply, review our Guidelines and use the online application to apply early. Click on schedule, to see what's planned for the week on this page, or download a pdf of the 2012 Schedule.

WORKSHOPS FOR QUALIFIED WRITERS OF POETRY

THE SHIMMER: Metaphor in the Machine of Words with KIM ADDONIZIO
The Art of the Draft: Reading the Poem's Palm with CORNELIUS EADY

Mother of Muses--Poetry and Memory with CLAUDIA EMERSON

Three-Dimensional Poetry with DAVID KIRBY

Word By Word, Line By Line with THOMAS LUX

Writing From Your Threshold with GREGORY ORR

Sideways and Backwards: Finding The Poem's Structure
 with CHASE TWICHELL

Night Fishing in the Sound: Invitations to the Imagination
 with ELEANOR WILNER


Beginning poets, shy about sharing their poems, should consider auditing a workshop as a great way to learn by observing and listening.

2012 Palm Beach Poetry Festival
Workshop Participants' Schedule of Events
 
Monday, January 16 (Martin Luther King Day)
(Book Signings follow all reading events) (Q&A sessions follow all Craft Talks)
 
6:00 - 7:00 pm Registration and Welcome Reception Vintage Gymnasium

7:00 - 8:00 pm

9:30 pm

Organizational Meeting of Workshops

Open Mic - The Colony Hotel, Atlantic Avenue

Assigned Classrooms

 

 

Tuesday, January 17:
 
9:30 am - 12:30 First Workshop Session Assigned Classrooms
12:30 - 2:00 pm free time

Crest Theatre
2:00 - 4:00 pm Craft Talks:
Thomas Lux and Eleanor Wilner

Crest Theatre
4:00 - 5:30 pm Publishing Panel: Journals, Anthologies, Presses  Crest Theatre

8:00 - 10:00 pm

10:00 pm

Kick-Off Reading:
Kim Adonizzio and Cornelius Eady

Open Mic - The Colony Hotel, Atlantic Avenue

Crest Theatre
 

Wednesday, January, 18
 
9:30 am - 12:30 Second Workshop Session Assigned Classrooms
12:30 - 2:00 pm

free time

Crest Theatre
2:00 - 3:30 pm Craft Talks:
Claudia Emerson and David Kirby

 
5:00 - 8:00 pm Festival Gala: Cocktails & Dinner* Vintage Gymnasium
8:00 - 10:30 pm

Gala Reading: Special Guest, Charles Wright

Crest Theatre
 

Thursday, January 19:
 
9:30 am - 12:30 Third Workshop Session Assigned Classrooms
12:30 - 2:00 pm free time

Crest Theatre
2:00 - 4 pm

Craft Talks:
Kim Addonizio and Gregory Orr

 
     
8:00 - 10:00 pm

10:00 pm

Midway Reading: Thomas Lux and Chase Twichell

Open Mic - The Colony Hotel, Atlantic Avenue

Crest Theatre
 

Friday, January 20:
 
9:30 am - 12:30 Fourth Workshop Session Assigned Classrooms
12:30 - 2:00 pm free time

Crest Theatre
2:00 - 3:30 pm Craft Talks:
Cornelius Eady and Chase Twichell

 
     
8:00 - 10:00 pm TFIG Reading:
David Kirby and Eleanor Wilner

Crest Theatre
 

Saturday, January 21:
 
9:30 am - 12:30 Fifth Workshop Session Assigned Classrooms
2:00 - 4:30 pm Panel Discussion: Beloved & Influential Poems: Wilner, Twichell, Orr, Lux, Kirby, Emerson, Eady, Addonizio

Crest Theatre
7:00 - 9:00 pm Finale Reading:
Claudia Emerson and Gregory Orr

Crest Theatre
9:00 - 10:00 pm Coffee House: Performance Vintage Gymnasium
10:00 - 11:00 pm Poetry & Party  
11:00 - 12:30 Performance Poets:
Vanessa Hidary and Jamaal May followed by
L I V E L Y DJ Dance Party
 
 

* Partners and spouses of workshop participants are invited to attend the Fundraising Gala. Tickets are $125 (1 guest/participant) Tickets are $125. Auditor Tuition does not include the gala. Auditors may attend with one guest, tickets: $125 each.