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08/23/2022
The 2023 Donald Justice Poetry Prize is open! The winner will be chosen by Mark Jarman, receive $1500, and have their manuscript published by .
See link in bio and follow to Contests and Awards tab for guidelines.
04/12/2022
Have you heard about the Ambassador Program for the College of Arts and Humanities? The students help communicate their mission and welcome folks to the community. And, they are hiring for Fall!
Contact Kate Fricke for details at [email protected] or stop in the Dean’s Office- Main Hall 144
04/06/2022
The 2022 Poetry and Creative Arts Festival, Breakthrough: Invigorating Creative Practices, begins tomorrow! We are so excited for this all-virtual event!
In preparation for the festival, we would like to introduce the leaders of this year’s panel presentations. Presenters include:
Bahir Nasiri
Oscar Saavedra
Moira Egan
Alex Pepple
Pulkita Anand
Crystal Hurdle
Julia Mallory
E. Maurice
There is still time to register for this much-anticipated event! As a friendly reminder, High School and Undergraduate Students can register for FREE!
Pricing starts at $75
Register today: www.wcupa.edu/PoetryEvents
04/01/2022
Who doesn’t love a good laugh? Join Christine Otis and her One-Day Workshop- Writing About Stand Up Comedy. Part of the WCU Virtual Poetry and Creative Arts Festival, this event will take place April 9 from 3-5pm.
Link to register in bio.
03/30/2022
We would like to welcome Josh Davis, another talented creative who will be hosting a Studio Time Workshop at this year’s Poetry and Creative Arts Festival. His Workshop, Like a Cherry Bomb in a Mailbox: Form as Disruption, is one attendees will not want to miss!
Poetic forms crave fire. But despite the sonic pleasure and powder-keg power emanating from the formal interventions of poets like Ruth Ellen Kocher (the mother of the gigan) and Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon (a nimble practitioner of the bop), many poets misperceive form as well-behaved. In this workshop, we will read and write disobediently. As we learn the moves that make the gigan and the bop so alluring, we will work toward two energetic drafts.
As a reminder, the Festival is now an all-virtual event.
HIGH SCHOOL AND UNDERGRADS: Breakthrough: Invigorating Creative Practices is FREE for all Students!
Pricing starts at $75
Register today: www.wcupa.edu/PoetryEvents
03/30/2022
UPDATE!! The WCU Poetry and Creative Arts Festival will now be an All-Virtual Event! Don't miss this opportunity to hear Keynote Speaker Cornelius Eady read AND sing with Cornelius Eady Trio including band mates Lisa Liu and Charlie Rauh.
Reminder! High School and Undergraduate Students are welcome; this is a FREE event for all students!
Register here : https://www.wcupa.edu/arts.../poetry/forms/craftVirtual/
03/28/2022
The next virtual workshop at this year’s Poetry and Creative Arts Festival is “Elegy vs. Ode: From Grief to Praise and Back Again” presented by the talented Allison Joseph!
The elegy and ode are often depicted as polar opposites--elegies being the poetic form for loss and lament, odes being the form for celebration and praise. This workshop will question that binary. What aspects of the ode are elegiac? What aspects of the elegy are celebratory? In seeking to answer these questions, this workshop with examine works from poets such as Ross Gay, John Keats, Pablo Neruda, Kim Addonizio, and Lucille Clifton. Writing exercises based on these poets will be provided.
Reminder, Breakthrough: Invigorating Creative Practices is FREE for all Undergraduate Students!
Pricing starts at $75
Register today: www.wcupa.edu/PoetryEvents
03/25/2022
The next virtual workshop at this year’s Poetry and Creative Arts Festival is “Building the Container You Need: Hybrid Forms” presented by the amazing poet and creative writer, Cindy King!
In this workshop, we will build our experimentation muscles through writing exercises and reading experimental published pieces. Some authors we'll dip into are Raymond Queneau, Bhanu Kapil, Claudia Rankine, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.
Reminder, Breakthrough: Invigorating Creative Practices is FREE for all Undergraduate Students!
Pricing starts at $75
Register today: www.wcupa.edu/PoetryEvents
03/24/2022
Introducing the first of the Festival’s virtual workshops, The Exalted & The Everyday in the Ghazal & the Ode presented by the talented Dilruba Ahmed!
In this double session of Poem Plus Prompt, we’ll unpack two very different kinds of formal poems: the ghazal and the ode. Join us for a discussion of the ways in which form and content come together to celebrate both the elevated and the mundane in a curated packet of poetry. How does the ghazal embrace and weave both what is earthly as well as what is sacred or divine? How might the ode illuminate and celebrate seemingly mundane aspects of life in ways that reveal new understandings? This workshop will include writing prompts for participants to experiment with both the ghazal and the ode.
Register today: www.wcupa.edu/PoetryEvents
03/24/2022
Homeward Arts Fest is a cross discipline, participatory exhibition, with performances, workshops, and a craft show! This is all coordinated by WCU professors in the College of Arts and Humanities. Coming next week is a free poetry reading by past winners of the Iris N. Spencer Poetry contest. Reading will be WCU Alums Luke Bauerlein, Jule Coppa, Alecc Costanzi, & Luke Stromberg and current student, Janie McNeil.
March 30-7pm
E. O. Bull Center for the Arts
John H. Baker Gallery
2. East Rosedale Ave.
Free Admission & Parking
03/23/2022
Make sure to register for this year’s Poetry and Creative Arts Festival to attend Raina León's exciting workshop, Dance Free Those Dry Bones!
"We are all going to die" is a common line in films about apocalypses. Fueled by population decline, disease, vampires, the impending doom of a meteor, climate crises, zombies, a Thanos snap, robots that self-replicate and use humans as batteries, or just 2012 as a whole year, we all know the end is coming. Or is it here? What if we say, yes to an end and yes to beginnings? What if we can even dance and write and paint new worlds into creation? Energy never dies; it transforms. In this workshop, we will study science fiction (in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual arts) alongside real life examples of people imagining and creating new worlds. We really will dance y'all, and paint ourselves some skies and write bridges to new stars. Ultimately, apocalypse means great revelation. Let's see what we will reveal!
Register today: www.wcupa.edu/PoetryEvents
03/17/2022
Announcing the winner of the Donald Justice Poetry prize. This year‘s winning manuscript, The Scorpion’s Question Mark, was written by who will receive $1500 along with the publishing of this book. Thank you to the Spencer family for creating the Iris N. Spencer Poetry Awards, Cornelius Eady for judging, and for publishing. More to come!