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Poetry Garden: Cultivating Poetry Community Beyond the Page & Stage
Friday, March 25, 2022
9:00 am to 10:00 am
This panel will focus on innovative ways to create poetry programming beyond the traditional poetry reading and slam/poetry performance stage. The panelists will discuss what makes their poetry programming and community unique, what nurtures that programming and community, and what sustains that programming and community long-term. The panel will consist of four curators with forty-plus years' experience combined and significantly diverse followings varying in age, skill, nationality, craft, and culture.
Participants
Tamara J. Madison is a writer, poet, and editor. Her work has been published in various journals and magazines including Poetry International and World Literature Today. She is the author of Threed, This Road Not Damascus and creator of Breakdown: The Poet & the Poems, a YouTube conversation series.
JP Howard's debut collection Say/Mirror was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. JP’s poetry is widely anthologized. She has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Lambda Literary, and VONA/Voices. JP curates Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon.
Kai Coggin is the author of three full-length poetry collections, a QWOC, and a teaching artist with the Arkansas Arts Council. Recently named “Best Poet in Arkansas” by the Arkansas Times, her poetry has been nominated three times for the Pushcart, as well as BAP 2015 and Best of the Net 2016 and 2018.
Jimmy Pappas won Rattle's 2018 Readers' Choice Award and 2019 Chapbook Contest. His interview with editor Tim Green is on Rattlecast #34. As vice president of the Poetry Society of New Hampshire, he facilitates audience-interactive Zoom events. He has been published in over 100 journals.
Sandra Yannone published her debut collection Boats for Women in 2019 with Salmon Poetry. Her poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net and Pushcart. She currently hosts Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry weekly on Facebook via Zoom on Sundays. To join, visit her at www.sandrayannone.com.
