10th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival January 20-25, 2014

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

Workshops and Events for the 10th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival, January 20-25, 2014.
(scroll down for detailed schedule of the 10th Annual Festival)


Festival workshops are limited to 12 qualified participants and 3 auditors to provide a meaningful level of discussion, and careful, informed attention to your work. Review our Guidelines. You may download a pdf of the 2014 Schedule.

WORKSHOPS FOR QUALIFIED WRITERS OF POETRY

POETRY AS BEWILDERMENT with NICK FLYNN
CREATE AND CRITIQUE WITH CAROLYN FORCHÉ
CRAFT OF THE INVISIBLE with LINDA GREGG
WORD BY WORD, LINE BY LINE with THOMAS LUX
PEELING THE ONION: Revealing The Lyric Voice with CAMPBELL MCGRATH

BRINGING THE OUTSIDE IN with AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL
THE POEM ON THE TABLE with MARY RUEFLE
IT’S ALL IN THE DETAILS with TIM SEIBLES

Beginning poets, shy about sharing their poems, or those who would like to learn by observing, should consider auditing a workshop, as a great way to learn.

2014 Palm Beach Poetry Festival
Workshop Participants' Schedule of Events
 
Monday, January 20 (Martin Luther King Day)
(Book Signings follow all reading events) (Q&A sessions follow all Craft Talks)
 
5:00 - 6:00 pm
6:00 - 7:00 pm
Registration
Welcome Reception
Crest Theatre,
Ocean Breeze Room

7:00 - 8:00 pm

9:30 pm

Organizational Meeting of Workshops

Open Mic - Festival Bookstore, Ocean Breeze Room

Assigned Classrooms

 

Tuesday, January 21:
 
9:30 am - 12:30 First Workshop Session Assigned Classrooms
12:30 - 2:00 pm free time

Crest Theatre
2:00 - 4:00 pm Craft Talks:
Nick Flynn & Mary Ruefle

Crest Theatre
4:00 - 5:30 pm

Natasha Trethewey, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2012-2033, Interviewed by Laure-Anne Bosselaar, followed by Q & A

Crest Theatre

8:00 - 10:00 pm

10:00 pm

Kick-Off Reading:
Thomas Lux & Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Open Mic - Festival Bookstore, Ocean Breeze Room

Crest Theatre
 

Wednesday, January, 22
 
9:30 am - 12:30 Second Workshop Session Assigned Classrooms
12:30 - 2:00 pm

free time

Crest Theatre
2:00 - 3:30 pm Craft Talks:
Linda Gregg & Tim Seibles

Crest Theatre
5:00 - 8:00 pm Festival Gala: Cocktails & Dinner* Vintage Gymnasium

8:00 - 10:30 pm

Gala Reading: Special Guest, Natasha Trethewey, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2012-2013

Crest Theatre
 

Thursday, January 23:
 
9:30 am - 12:30 Third Workshop Session Assigned Classrooms
12:30 - 2:00 pm free time

Crest Theatre
2:00 - 4 pm

4-5:00 pm

Craft Talks:
Carolyn Forché & Thomas Lux

Open Mic, Festival Bookstore, Ocean Breeze Room

 
     
8:00 - 10:00 pm

Midweek Reading:
Kurt Brown, Linda Gregg & Campbell McGrath

Crest Theatre

 

Friday, January 24:
 
9:30 am - 12:30 Fourth Workshop Session Assigned Classrooms
12:30 - 2:00 pm free time

 
2:00 - 3:30 pm Craft Talks:
Campbell McGrath & Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Crest Theatre
     
4:00-5:00 pm

8:00 - 10:00 pm

Open Mic, Festival Bookstore, Ocean Breeze Room

TGIF Reading:
Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Mary Ruefle & Tim Seibles

Crest Theatre

 

Saturday, January 25:
 
9:30 am - 12:30 Fifth Workshop Session Assigned Classrooms
2:00 - 4:30 pm Panel Discussion: Beloved & Influential Poems: Seibles, Ruefle, Nezhukumatathil, McGrath, Lux, Gregg, Forché, Flynn

Crest Theatre
7:00 - 9:00 pm Finale Reading:
Nick Flynn & Carolyn Forché

Crest Theatre
9:00 - 10:00 pm Coffee House: Performance Vintage Gymnasium
10:00 - 11:00 pm Poetry & Party  
11:00 - 12:30 Performance Poets:
Taylor Mali & Glenis Redmond
followed by
L I V E DJ Dance Party
 
 

* Partners and spouses of workshop participants are invited to attend the Fundraising Gala. Tickets are $125 (1 guest/participant) Tickets are $125. Auditor Tuition does not include the gala. Auditors may attend with one guest, tickets: $125 each.