T133.

Forgotten Fertile Ground: Contemporary Poetry & Community Colleges

Virtual
Thursday, March 24, 2022
9:00 am to 10:00 am

 

For reasons economic and otherwise, there has been huge growth in the enrollment at community colleges. Many students never get the chance to take a class dedicated to poetry and instead only experience it through Basic Skills or Writing 101 classes. Four experienced community college faculty, poets themselves, will look at motivating ways of mining the poetic talent from community college students. We will discuss methods of eliciting remarkable writing from this often-forgotten segment.



Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: Findura_-_AWP_Outline.pdf

Participants

Moderator:

John Findura holds an MFA from The New School and an EdD from New Jersey City University. He is the author of the poetry collections Submerged (2017) and the forthcoming Useful Shrapnel (2022). John is the Writing Center supervisor at Bergen Community College in New Jersey.

Brian Cordell holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is the author of the chapbook In Their Final Performance (2020). Brian is an associate professor at Bergen Community College where he teaches creative writing, composition, technical writing, and literature.

Mary Crosby is an assistant professor of English at Bergen Community College, where she teaches composition, creative writing, and literature. She is the editorial advisor of the student literary journal the Labyrinth and author of the poetry chapbooks Alluvium Stream and Cannon Mine.

Mike Matthews is author of two books, Water of Joy and Ashes, published by Finishing Line Press. Mike Matthews has been teaching English writing courses including creative writing for Central Texas College in Killeen, Texas. He is working on a third book.

#AWP24

February 7–10, 2024
Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City Convention Center