S227. CANCELLED: Cold Open: Teaching Poetry in High School
Status: Not Accepted
Saturday, March 7, 2020
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
Participants
Keith Leonard is the author of the poetry collection, Ramshackle Ode. His poems have recently appeared in The Believer, Ploughshares, and New England Review. Keith teaches at The Wellington School, an independent school in Columbus, Ohio.
Meghan Dunn is the author of Who Also Will Not Yield, a collaborative art and poetry chapbook, with artist Ben Pinder. She teaches high school English at the Brooklyn Latin School. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares and Narrative, among others.
Kenyatta Rogers is a Cave Canem fellow whose work has been previously published in or is forthcoming from Jubilat, The Volta, Rhino Poetry, Bat City Review, and others. He's an associate editor with Rhino Poetry and currently serves on creative writing faculty at the Chicago High School for the Arts.
Michael Bazzett is a 2017 NEA fellow. He is the author of three books of poetry–You Must Remember This (winner of the Lindquist & Vennum Prize), Our Lands Are Not So Different, and The Interrogation–as well as a verse translation of the Mayan creation epic The Popol Vuh.