Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival

04/22/2024

Thank you to all who came out this weekend! As a parting gift, please enjoy the fruits of your labor/the labor of all our poets & participants. ✍️💛✨

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04/21/2024

thank you for such a wonderful reading yesterday. what an absolute treat.

04/21/2024

04/20/2024

Our lovely poets! 😍

04/20/2024

Thank you for such a wonderful generative session on prose poems this morning! 🌞 We have a big day ahead, come read, write & luxuriate with us…

04/20/2024

What a lovely start to our festival! Many thanks to all who read at our open mic, to our undergraduate poetry contest winner, Naomi Marx, & to Eugenia Leigh for such wonderful words. Come through tomorrow to luxuriate in some more language & conversation with us!

03/05/2024

As the Spring approaches we are happy to announce the line-ups and schedules of this year's SLC Poetry Festival!

Free and open to the public, this year our festival will happen on April 19th - 21st, here on campus at Sarah Lawrence College. We are proud to feature readings, craft talks, and generative sessions with Catherine Barnett, Haleh Liza Gafori, Marie Howe, Joanna Klink, Eugenia Leigh, Dennis Nurkse, Maya C. Popa, Afaa M. Weaver, Shelley Wong, and more. Our capstone event on the evening of Saturday April 20 will be a celebration of the late poet Jean Valentine, who was a beloved faculty member at Sarah Lawrence College for many years, co-hosted by Alice James Books. Besides some of the featured readers, our faculty members Myra Goldberg and Victoria Redel will also join us during the Jean Valentine celebration event.

For detailed schedules and RSVP, please visit our Eventbrite page linked in bio~

04/24/2023

Thank you to everyone involved for a phenomenal Poetry Festival this year! Here’s some highlights 🎞️

Thank you to Hala Alyan, Nickole Brown, Claudia Cortese, Richie Hofmann, Emily Jungmin Yoon, Donika Kelly, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Cecily Parks, R.A. Villanueva, and Sally Wen Mao for your words, your generosity, and your inspiration. We are honored to know you and to be a part of your journey💛

Another big thank you to our wonderful Poetry Fest committee, Codirectors Madisen Gummer and Amanda Pendley, and committee members Zachariah Claypole White, Zoë Cuniffe, Ash Freeman, Makayla Gay, Catalina Irigoyen, Joshua Leonard, Greer McAllister, Anushka Nagarmath, Kate Peters, and Chloe Phillips. We celebrate your hard work today and every day.

04/21/2023

We are beyond excited to inaugurate this year’s SLC Poetry Festival! Events will begin at 6 pm, starting with our open mic. Come join us for a very lyrical evening 📝

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🔎 Don’t forget to register for this weekend’s events via Eventbrite at the link in our bio!

04/20/2023

We’d like to give a big thank you to our Alumni Judge, Nick Soluri, for choosing our undergraduate and MFA contest winners this year!

04/20/2023

We are so happy to announce that we have nine MFA contest winners, all reading at 2:30 pm on Sunday, April 23rd in Heimbold’s Donnelly Theater!

We designed this contest to bring MFA students from different programs together to celebrate a weekend of poetry. We hope you’ll come join us in hearing from our winners this Sunday!

Not pictured: Julie Chen representing Brooklyn College, Nat Ward representing Brooklyn College

04/14/2023

Introducing our three wonderful undergraduate contest winners for this year’s poetry festival, Emma DeNaples, Emma Cameron, and Jane Scheiber!

Emma DeNaples will be opening the Friday evening reading for Donika Kelly and Sally Wen Mao at 8:00 pm.

Emma Cameron will be opening the Saturday evening reading with Diana Khoi Nguyen and Hala Alyan at 6:00 pm.

Jane Scheiber will be opening the Sunday evening reading with Cecily Parks and R.A. Villanueva at 5:00 pm.

All three readings will be held in Heimbold Auditorium in the Donnelly Theater. We hope to see you there!

04/14/2023

So many wonderful readings to attend! We’re eager to hear what this year’s poets have to share ✍️

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🔎 Don’t forget to RSVP via the Eventbrite link in our bio!

04/13/2023

We are looking forward to hosting this amazing panel between such talented poets. Join us on Saturday the 21st!

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🔎 Don’t forget to sign up via the Eventbrite link in our bio

04/13/2023

Have you heard about our upcoming generative sessions yet? We’re so excited!

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🔎 Don’t forget to sign up via the Eventbrite link in our bio

04/13/2023

Here are the craft talks we will be offering during the 2023 Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival!

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🔎 Don’t forget to sign up via the Eventbrite link in our bio

04/03/2023

And finally, here is our official Sunday schedule!

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11:00am - Craft Talk with Richie Hofmann in Slonim Living Room

12:00pm - Reading with Emily Jungmin Yoon in Donnelly Theater (Heimbold)

1:00pm - Generative Session with Cecily Parks in Heimbold 208

2:00pm - Lunch in Heimbold Atrium

2:30pm - NYC-area MFA Writing Contest Reading in Donnelly Theater (Heimbold)

3:30pm - Reading with Nickole Brown in Donnelly Theater (Heimbold)

4:30pm - Cocktail Hour (hors d'oeuvres) in Heimbold Atrium

5:00pm - 6:30pm - Reading with Cecily Parks and R.A. Villanueva in Donnelly Theater (Heimbold)
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🔎 Don’t forget to RSVP via Eventbrite at the link in our bio!

04/01/2023

Here is our schedule for Saturday’s programmed events 🖇️

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11:00am - Panel with Claudia Cortese, Donika Kelly, Diana Khoi Nguyen, &
Emily Jungmin Yoon in Donnelly Theater (Heimbold)

12:00pm - Lunch in Heimbold Atrium

1:00pm - Reading with Claudia Cortese in Donnelly Theater (Heimbold)

2:00pm - Craft Talk with Nickole Brown in Slonim Living Room

3:00pm - Reading with Richie Hofmann in Donnelly Theater (Heimbold)

4:00pm - Cocktail Hour (hors d'oeuvres) in Heimbold Atrium

5:00pm - Generative Session with Hala Alyan in Heimbold 208

6:00pm - 7:30pm - Reading with Diana Khoi Nguyen and Hala Alyan in Donnelly Theater (Heimbold)

03/30/2023

The SLC 2023 Poetry Festival schedule is finally here! Stay tuned for more 🖇️

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Friday, April 21st Schedule:

6:00pm - Open Mic Reading for attendees in Slonim Living Room

7:00pm - Cocktail Hour (hors d'oeuvres and BYOB) in Heimbold Atrium

8:00pm - 9:30pm - Reading with Donika Kelly and Sally Wen Mao in Donnelly Theater (Heimbold)

03/30/2023

The SLC 2023 Poetry Festival Schedule is finally here! Stay tuned for more 🖇️

Friday, April 21st

6:00pm - Open Mic Reading for attendees in Slonim Living Room

7:00pm - Cocktail Hour (hors d'oeuvres and BYOB) in Heimbold Atrium

8:00pm - 9:30pm - Reading with Donika Kelly and Sally Wen Mao in Donnelly Theater (Heimbold)
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🔎 Don’t forget to RSVP via Eventbrite at the link in our bio!

03/09/2023

🔎 Free and open to the public, you can register for each event you’d like to attend via the Eventbrite links in our bio.

03/07/2023

✏️ PSA: deadline extension!

You now have until March 15th to submit your works for consideration. Find the link in our bio. Happy writing!

03/07/2023

We’re excited to reveal our final faculty reader for the 2023 Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival!

Sally Wen Mao is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection The Kingdom of Surfaces (Graywolf Press, 2023), and the debut fiction collection Ninetails (Penguin Books). She is also the author of two previous poetry collections, Oculus (Graywolf Press, 2019), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Mad Honey Symposium (Alice James Books, 2014). The recipient of two Pushcart Prizes and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, she was recently a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library and a Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute.

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🔎 Don’t forget to RSVP via Eventbrite! Find the link in our bio.

03/05/2023

We are proud to present our next faculty reader for the 2023 Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival!

R. A. Villanueva is the author of Reliquaria (University of Nebraska Press, 2014), winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. A founding editor of Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art, he currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

03/01/2023

It’s time to reveal our first SLC faculty reader!

Hala Alyan is the author of the novel “Salt Houses,” winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize. Her latest novel, “The Arsonists’ City,” was published in March 2021 and was a finalist for the 2022 Aspen Words Literary Prize. She is also the author of four award-winning collections of poetry, most recently “The Twenty-Ninth Year.” Her work has been published by The New Yorker, The Academy of American Poets, LitHub, The New York Times Book Review and Guernica. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter, where she works as a clinical psychologist.