F235. Poetry in Community: Ideas, Initiatives, Impacts

E141-142, Oregon Convention Center, Level 1
Friday, March 29, 2019
1:30 pm to 2:45 pm

 

Why does bringing poetry to communities matter? This panel discusses the innovative and explorative opportunities being offered in community development in creative writing from four distinct centers around the country. Panelists discuss how their centers collaborate to create points of engagement, the types of programming they provide, importance of community initiatives, impact in the community, and new trends in creative writing in regard to community development.


Participants

Moderator:

Felicia Zamora authored the books Of Form & Gather& in Open, Marvel; and Instrument of Gaps. Winner of the 2015 Tomaž Šalamun Prize, she published two chapbooks, and she was the 2017 Poet Laureate of Fort Collins, Colorado, and is associate poetry editor for Colorado Review.

Michael McLane is the Literature Program Officer at Utah Humanities and director for the Utah Humanities Book Festival. He is an editor with Sugar House Review and saltfront. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Colorado State and an MS in Environmental Humanities from the University of Utah.

Wren Awry is a K-12 Education Coordinator at the University of Arizona Poetry Center. Their poems and essays have been published by Entropy, Essay Daily, Fairy Tale Review's Fairyland, and Ghost City Press, among other venues. They currently curate Bone + All's Nourishing Resistance interview series.

Charlie Malone is the Outreach Manager at the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State. Malone coordinates these efforts in hospitals, detention centers, schools, recovery groups, and more. He earned his MA from Kent State and MFA from Colorado State. Malone has published in over a dozen journals.

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