Publishing Poetry with Sarah Kortemeier

Get some insider tips on the publishing side of poetry from our own Sarah Kotemeier! In this Zoom presentation with Q&A, Sarah will share her publishing experience and insight. Sarah is the author of Ganbatte (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019) and A ri ot Poetics: Erasures (The Offending Adam, 2022). She is Library Director at the University of Arizona Poetry Center, and her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Ploughshares, Alaska Quarterly Review, Sentence, Pilgrimage, Fairy Tale Review, The Feminist Wire, Barrow Street, and Spiral Orb, among others.  She holds an MFA in Poetry and an MA in Library and Information Science, both from The University of Arizona. 

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The Ekphrastic Dimension with David Chorlton

In this Zoom workshop, David Chorlton will share his Ekphrastic writing method. From David: "Seeing is just the beginning. A poem that grows from a work of art can move beyond translating visual imagery into language. Words might reach territory that drawing and painting only suggest. It doesn’t serve us as writers simply to appropriate the artist’s own creation, but to use it as a starting point toward whatever we discover for ourselves in the process, to see through the painting rather than simply looking at it."

David Chorlton spent his early life in Europe and loved visiting the major galleries and began painting before it occurred to him to write poetry. Since moving to Phoenix in 1979, he has been drawn into the Southwestern landscape and owes more today to the desert than to historical study as a guide to his writing. His most recent book is Dreams the Stones Have from The Bitter Oleander Press, and other publications include The Inner Mountain from Cholla Needles in California, in which his paintings become integral to the poems that focus on the desert mountain near where he lives. Other works include Speech Scroll, a book-length sequence, and Shatter the Bell in my Ear, translations from Austrian poet Christine Lavant.

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