WRITE IT! with Nickole Brown and Jessica Jacobs is planned with the Palm Beach County School District Educational Technology Team. The poets will read and share prompts to inspire students from their co-authored book of prompts. The event will be available throughout the Palm Beach County School System: https://www.youtube.com/c/EdTechTrainingTeam/.
Nickole Brown is the author of Sister: A Novel-in-Poems (Red Hen Press, Sibling Rivalry Press) and Fanny Say: A Biography-in-Poems (BOA Editions). Currently, she lives in Asheville, North Carolina, where she periodically volunteers at several animal sanctuaries. Since 2016, she’s been writing about these animals, and To Those Who Were Our First Gods, a chapbook of these first poems, won the 2018 Rattle Prize. Her essay-in-poems, The Donkey Elegies, was published by Sibling Rivalry Press in 2020. In 2021, Spruce Books of Penguin Random House published Write It! 100 Poetry Prompts to Inspire, a book co-authored with her wife Jessica Jacobs, and they regularly teach together as part of their SunJune Literary Collaborative. Every summer, she teaches at the low-residency MFA at the Sewanee School of Letters. www.nickolebrown.com
Jessica Jacobs is the author of Take Me with You, Wherever You’re Going (Four Way Books), winner of the Devil’s Kitchen and Goldie Awards, and Pelvis with Distance (White Pine Press), winner of the New Mexico Book Award and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. She serves as Chapbook Editor for Beloit Poetry Journal and lives in Asheville, NC, with her wife, the poet Nickole Brown, with whom she co-authored Write It! 100 Poetry Prompts to Inspire (Spruce Books/ PenguinRandomHouse). Her collection of poems in conversation with the Book of Genesis will be out from Four Way Books in 2024. www.jessicalgjacobs.com
To sign up for free generative workshops with Nickole & Jessica: https://sunjune.org/write-it-generative-sessions/
Yaddyra Peralta, MFA, is the former Assistant Director of the Palm Beach Poetry Festival. Her works have appeared in Sliver of Stone, Ploughshares, Jai-alai, Abe’s Penny, Tigertail, The New Poet, and Hinchas de Poesia. In 2013, she was a Visiting Writer at the Betsy Hotel’s Writer’s Room in Miami Beach, Florida, and one of six Helen M. Salzberg Artists-in-Residence at Florida Atlantic University’s Jaffe Center for the Book Arts where she collaborated on the book Conversation, Too.
Celebrate St. Patty’s Day with this fun Irish poetry workshop facilitated by Michael Macklin O’Mara. During the workshop, participants will read some of the best loved Irish poems, learn about the history of limericks, and pen a few of their own. Blarney, sharing your work, and wearing of the green is optional. St. Pat’s Pub will offer a special holiday lunch menu.
Five cash prizes and five honorable mentions will be selected by contest judge, Stephen Gibson. First Prize: $100.00; Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth Prizes: 4 awards of $25.00 each; Five Honorable Mentions. Entries that win cash prizes will be published in the May issue of South Florida Poetry Journal, while all top 10 poems will be published online and announced in press releases.
Stacie M. Kiner will facilitate her workshop: With Nothing to Regret, Nothing to Wish Reversed, as Walt Whitman beseeched, it is time to pay homage to lights that still shine—from John Donne to Elizabeth Bishop, James Wright to Anne Sexton, the 17th Century through the 20th; let’s leave Auden’s The Age of Anxiety at the door—and sing the body electric.
This workshop will focus on reading examples of poetry that convey a strong sense of wonder about the world. Through generative writing exercises, participants will use a tool box of poetic devices: images, syntax, tone, rhyming, repetition, form, etc. to find their own wondrous moments in their poems. This workshop aims to explore how we use poetry as a vehicle of meaning and self-discovery.
Festival Workshop Participants Read in the Crest Theatre, Free and Open to the Public Audience, Open Mic for Registered Workshop Participants only.
Major Jackson: Imagining What We Cannot See: Poems of Great Description
Reading with Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Major Jackson, and David Kirby, followed by book signing in the Festival Book Store, Ocean Breeze Room in the Crest Theatre Building.
Freesia McKee is author of the chapbook How Distant the City, and her work has appeared in Cream City Review, The Feminist Wire, Painted Bride Quarterly, and Gertrude among others, and she is the winner of the 2018 Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry.
*This competition would not be possible without the collaboration of Old School Square and The Cornell Art Museum. Images courtesy of the Cornell Art Museum at Old School Square.
Yaddyra Peralta’s work has appeared in Miami Rail, Ploughshares, Tigertail, Abe’s Penny, Hinchas de Poesia, Eight Miami Poets (Jai Alai Books) and The Miami Herald. She has taught writing at Miami Dade College, Homestead Correctional Institution, and for O,Miami’s Sunroom project. Yaddyra is Associate Editor at Mango Publishing.
Participants will learn the basics of the Japanese literary form of haiku and haibun, which is a combination of prose and haiku. Participants will look at a brief history of the haibun and examine various examples, with a focus on the work of haiku master Kobyahsi Issa. Workshop participants will learn about the history of the forms, examine various examples, past and present, and then head to Morikami’s beautiful gardens to generate their own haiku and haibun. Participants need to bring a pen and writing pad, snippets of prose, dreams, found poems, journal entries, observations, memories, or a few lines from their own poems to incorporate in their very own haibun.
favorite holiday poems and songs of the season. All ages welcome.
welcome to attend.
