2013 EXPERIENCE POETRY
Irene Latham is a Birmingham poet and novelist
who writes heart-touching tales of unexpected
adventure. Her debut historical novel LEAVING
GEE'S BEND (Putnam/Penguin, 2010) is set in
Alabama during the Great Depression and was
awarded Alabama Library Association's 2011
Children's Book Award. Her latest novel DON'T
FEED THE BOY (Roaring Brook/Macmillan, 2012) is
about a boy who wants to escape his life at the
zoo. Poetry editor for Birmingham Arts Journal,
Irene has also authored two award-winning
poetry collections WHAT CAME BEFORE (Negative
Capability Press, 2007) and THE COLOR OF LOST
ROOMS (Blue Rooster Press, 2010).
who writes heart-touching tales of unexpected
adventure. Her debut historical novel LEAVING
GEE'S BEND (Putnam/Penguin, 2010) is set in
Alabama during the Great Depression and was
awarded Alabama Library Association's 2011
Children's Book Award. Her latest novel DON'T
FEED THE BOY (Roaring Brook/Macmillan, 2012) is
about a boy who wants to escape his life at the
zoo. Poetry editor for Birmingham Arts Journal,
Irene has also authored two award-winning
poetry collections WHAT CAME BEFORE (Negative
Capability Press, 2007) and THE COLOR OF LOST
ROOMS (Blue Rooster Press, 2010).
Jack B. Bedell is Professor of English and coordinator
of the programs in Creative Writing at Southeastern
Louisiana University, where he also serves as editor
of Louisiana Literature and director of Louisiana
Literature Press. His most recent books are Bone-
Hollow, True: New & Selected Poems, Call and
Response, and Come Rain, Come Shine, all with Texas
Review Press.
of the programs in Creative Writing at Southeastern
Louisiana University, where he also serves as editor
of Louisiana Literature and director of Louisiana
Literature Press. His most recent books are Bone-
Hollow, True: New & Selected Poems, Call and
Response, and Come Rain, Come Shine, all with Texas
Review Press.
A native of Boston, Julie Kane has lived in Louisiana since 1976 and is the
2011-2013 Louisiana Poet Laureate. Her poetry collections include Jazz
Funeral (Story Line Press, 2009), which received the Donald Justice
Poetry Prize, and Rhythm & Booze (University of Illinois Press, 2003), a
winner of the National Poetry Series and finalist for the 2005 Poets’ Prize.
The anthology that she co-edited with Grace Bauer (Umpteen Ways of
Looking at a Possum: Critical and Creative Responses to Everette Maddox)
was a finalist for the 2007 Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance
(SIBA) book prize in poetry. She is also the associate editor for 20th
century poetry of the Longman anthology of Southern literature, Voices of
the American South (2005), and the co-author of the memoir Counterpart:
A South Vietnamese Naval Officer’s War (Naval Institute Press, 1998),
which became a History Book Club Featured Alternate Selection. Her
poems appear in more than thirty anthologies including Poetry: A Pocket
Anthology (Penguin, 2012); Villanelles (Everyman’s Library, 2012); Hot
Sonnets (Entasis Press, 2011); The Southern Poetry Anthology: Volume 4,
Louisiana (Texas Review Press, 2011); A Field of Large Desires: A Greville
Press Anthology 1975-2010 (Carcanet, 2010); and The Book of Irish
American Poets from the 18th Century to the Present (Notre Dame
University Press, 2007). They have also been featured on Poetry Daily,
Verse Daily, and The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor and in
journals such as The Antioch Review, Barrow Street, Prairie Schooner,
Rattle, and The Southern Review. A former George Bennett Fellow in
Writing at Phillips Exeter Academy, New Orleans Writer-in-Residence at
Tulane University, and Fulbright Scholar at Vilnius Pedagogical University
in Lithuania, Julie teaches at Northwestern State University in
Natchitoches, Louisiana, where she is a Professor of English and Creative
Writing, and on the faculty of the West Chester Poetry Conference.
2011-2013 Louisiana Poet Laureate. Her poetry collections include Jazz
Funeral (Story Line Press, 2009), which received the Donald Justice
Poetry Prize, and Rhythm & Booze (University of Illinois Press, 2003), a
winner of the National Poetry Series and finalist for the 2005 Poets’ Prize.
The anthology that she co-edited with Grace Bauer (Umpteen Ways of
Looking at a Possum: Critical and Creative Responses to Everette Maddox)
was a finalist for the 2007 Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance
(SIBA) book prize in poetry. She is also the associate editor for 20th
century poetry of the Longman anthology of Southern literature, Voices of
the American South (2005), and the co-author of the memoir Counterpart:
A South Vietnamese Naval Officer’s War (Naval Institute Press, 1998),
which became a History Book Club Featured Alternate Selection. Her
poems appear in more than thirty anthologies including Poetry: A Pocket
Anthology (Penguin, 2012); Villanelles (Everyman’s Library, 2012); Hot
Sonnets (Entasis Press, 2011); The Southern Poetry Anthology: Volume 4,
Louisiana (Texas Review Press, 2011); A Field of Large Desires: A Greville
Press Anthology 1975-2010 (Carcanet, 2010); and The Book of Irish
American Poets from the 18th Century to the Present (Notre Dame
University Press, 2007). They have also been featured on Poetry Daily,
Verse Daily, and The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor and in
journals such as The Antioch Review, Barrow Street, Prairie Schooner,
Rattle, and The Southern Review. A former George Bennett Fellow in
Writing at Phillips Exeter Academy, New Orleans Writer-in-Residence at
Tulane University, and Fulbright Scholar at Vilnius Pedagogical University
in Lithuania, Julie teaches at Northwestern State University in
Natchitoches, Louisiana, where she is a Professor of English and Creative
Writing, and on the faculty of the West Chester Poetry Conference.
A native of Meridian, Mississippi, Howard Bahr has
authored four novels. In 2009, he received the
Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters fiction award
for his fourth novel, Pelican Road. Bahr won this year’
s Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Literary Arts.
He lives in Jackson Mississippi, and teaches at
Belhaven University.
authored four novels. In 2009, he received the
Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters fiction award
for his fourth novel, Pelican Road. Bahr won this year’
s Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Literary Arts.
He lives in Jackson Mississippi, and teaches at
Belhaven University.
| WORKSHOP FACILITATOR |
HOWARD BAHR, HOST
FOR EXPERIENCE POETRY
FOR EXPERIENCE POETRY
julie kane
jack bedell
irene latham
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| EXPERIENCE POETRY WORKSHOP IRENE LATHAM, INSTRUCTOR |
IRENE LATHAM : Join award-winning poet Irene Latham (www.irenelatham.com) on a journey to
discover the joy of ekphrasis: the technique through which one art responds to another. This workshop
will include a discussion of examples of ekphrastic poems as well as specific methods for moving poems
beyond description and into the poet’s unique emotional terrain. In-class writing exercises will be used as
the basis for finished poems, which will be shared with the class.
discover the joy of ekphrasis: the technique through which one art responds to another. This workshop
will include a discussion of examples of ekphrastic poems as well as specific methods for moving poems
beyond description and into the poet’s unique emotional terrain. In-class writing exercises will be used as
the basis for finished poems, which will be shared with the class.
DEADLINE: April 24; Workshop time: 10:00 a.m. - noon, April 27, 2013
REGISTRATION: $22.00 Pay by Paypal here:
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| Mail checks and poems to: Experience Poetry Mississippi Writers Guild P. O. Box 3845 Meridian, MS 39303 MUST BE RECEIVED BY APRIL 24, 2013 BECAUSE OF LIMITED WORKSHOP SPACE AND POETRY CONSULTATION. |
Lorelei Books, an independent bookstore in Vicksburg, Mississippi, partnering with the Warren County Public Library
and The Mississippi Writers Guild, will present an afternoon of poetry called ‘Experience Poetry In Vicksburg’.
This will take place at the Warren County Library auditorium Saturday, April 27th, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
This program features a poetry reading and panel discussion by IRENE LATHAM, JACK BEDELL, and JULIE KANE. The program
will also include a question and answer session with the audience. Novelist HOWARD BAHR, who won the 2012 Governor’s
Award for Excellence in the Literary Arts, will host the event. Bahr lives in Jackson, Mississippi and teaches at Belhaven
University.
The 10:00 a.m. - noon poetry writing workshop will be taught by IRENE LATHAM at the Warren County Library.
and The Mississippi Writers Guild, will present an afternoon of poetry called ‘Experience Poetry In Vicksburg’.
This will take place at the Warren County Library auditorium Saturday, April 27th, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
This program features a poetry reading and panel discussion by IRENE LATHAM, JACK BEDELL, and JULIE KANE. The program
will also include a question and answer session with the audience. Novelist HOWARD BAHR, who won the 2012 Governor’s
Award for Excellence in the Literary Arts, will host the event. Bahr lives in Jackson, Mississippi and teaches at Belhaven
University.
The 10:00 a.m. - noon poetry writing workshop will be taught by IRENE LATHAM at the Warren County Library.
IN V ICKSBURG
