Let inspiration flow! Join us for a nature poetry workshop led by two renowned local poets. During the workshop, we will write from a few prompts with guidance from our instructors. There will be time for free writing, sharing and helpful feedback from teachers and peers. The workshop will be conducted outside where you can draw inspiration from the views of the Great Marsh and Parker River.
Please bring a notebook and your favorite writing utensil.
WHEN: Sat., Oct. 7
10:30am-12:30 pm
WHERE: Private residence on Greenbelt-conserved land in Rowley, MA.*
(Train Accessible!)
About Our Workshop Leaders:
January Gill O’Neil is the author of Rewilding (fall 2018), Misery Islands (2014), and Underlife (2009), published by CavanKerry Press. She is an assistant professor of English at Salem State University, and boards of trustees member with the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) and Montserrat College of Art. From 2012-2018, she served as executive director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival. A Cave Canem fellow, January’s poems and articles have appeared in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day series, American Poetry Review, New England Review, Ploughshares and Ecotone, among others. In 2018, January was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant, and was named the John and Renée Grisham Writer in Residence for 2019-2020 at the University of Mississippi, Oxford. She lives with her two children in Beverly, Massachusetts.
Dawn Paul is working on a series of poems about North Shore’s Great Salt Marsh. She is the author of the novels The Country of Loneliness and Still River. Her poetry chapbook What We Still Don’t Know examines the contradictions in the life of scientist Carl Linnaeus, originator of the Linnaean biological naming system used worldwide today. Paul has been a recipient of residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, the Ragdale Foundation, the Spring Creek Project, Friday Harbor Marine Laboratories and Isles of Shoals Marine Labs. Her poetry has been published in anthologies, journals and most recently, Orion Magazine. Also look for it engraved in the sidewalk on Cabot Street in downtown Beverly!