Five Ways of Looking at Poetry
Five Ways of Looking at Poetry presents experts of the poetic form
published by NC small press, Bull City Press.
Individual workshops are $25. The series of 5 is $100.
Workshops are limited to fifteen participants and are interactive, so you'll have a chance to ask questions.
All take place online. Once you register, you'll be sent a code for signing in and a copy of a book by your workshop leader.
April 22, 7PM EST
Jim Whiteside is the author of Writing Your Name on the Glass. He is a graduate of the creative writing MFA program at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, is a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts fellow, and is the recipient of a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. Jim’s recent poems have appeared in journals such as Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Pleiades, Crazyhorse, and Washington Square Review. His first opera libretto, Higher Ground, was scored by the composer Jules Pegram and debuted at The University of Michigan in April 2018. Read more about Jim at his website.
April 29, 7PM EST
Hannah VanderHart, author of What Pecan Light and Hands Like Birds, lives in Durham, NC. She has her MFA from George Mason University, and is currently at Duke University writing her dissertation on women poets in the seventeenth century. She has poems and reviews recently published and forthcoming at The McNeese Review, Thrush Poetry Journal, The Greensboro Review, Poetry Northwest and American Poetry Review. Read more about Hannah at her website.
May 6, 7PM EST
Britton Shurley is the author of Spinning the Vast Fantastic. His poetry has appeared in such journals as Southern Humanities Review, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, and Southern Indiana Review. He is the recipient of Emerging Artist Awards from the Kentucky Arts Council in both 2011 and 2016 and is an Associate Professor of English at West Kentucky Community & Technical College where he edits Exit 7: A Journal of Literature & Art with his wife, the poet, Amelia Martens. They live in Paducah, Kentucky with their daughters and curate the Rivertown Reading Series. Read more about Britton at his website.
May 13, 7PM EST
C.T. Salazar is a Latinx poet and librarian from Mississippi. He’s the author of three chapbooks: American Cavewall Sonnets and This Might Have Meant Fire (Bull City Press) and Forty Stitches Sewing A Body Against A Ramshackle Night (Animal Heart Press). He’s the 2020 recipient of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters award in poetry. His poems have appeared in The Cincinnati Review, The Rumpus, Beloit Poetry Journal, 32 Poems, RHINO, and elsewhere. His first full length is due from Acre Books in 2022. Find out more about C.T. here.
May 20, 7PM EST
Ross White is the author of Charm Offensive, winner of the 2019 Sexton Prize, and three chapbooks: How We Came Upon the Colony, The Polite Society, and Valley of Want. He is the director of Bull City Press, an independent publisher of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He teaches creative writing and grammar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is the editor of Four Way Review. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, Tin House, and The Southern Review, among others. Follow him on Twitter: @rosswhite.)
Noah Stetzer is the author of Because I Can See Needing a Knife (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2016). Noah’s poems have appeared in various journals including Sixth Finch, Waxwing, The Cortland Review, Hobart, and New England Review. He is a 2014 fellow from the Lambda Literary Retreat and a returning work-study scholar at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Noah now lives in Kansas City, MO. Follow him on Twitter: @dcnoah.
