Poetry at Round Top 2018
Festival Schedule
Friday, April 20
3:30p Time to Write or Optional Workshops or Manuscript Consultations
- Scott Brownlee, From “Me” to “I” to “We”: Summoning the Power of the Collective Voice in Persona Poems
- Carrie Fountain, Writing Where You Are (and Where You’ve Been)
- Javier Zamora, Stealing from Márquez
Manuscript Consultations:
Liz Garton Scanlon
Tomás Morín
Kurt Heinzelman
5:00p
Panel: “Writing Home” Javier Zamora, Emmy Pérez, Carrie Fountain, Liz Garton Scanlon
6:00p Dinner
8:00p Featured Readings
Roger Reeves
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Kafe Kaffeine, Round Top Fellows Reading to follow immediately
Saturday, April 21
9:00a Featured Readings
Kurt Heinzelman
Liz Garton Scanlon
10:15a Panel “Writing It Out” Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Roger Reeves, Kurt Heinzelman
11:00a Open Mic or Optional Workshops or Manuscript Consultations
- Emmy Pérez, The Poetics of Luminosity
- Roger Reeves, The End of the World
Manuscript Consultations:
Tomás Morín
12:30p Lunch
2:00p A Conversation with Naomi Shihab Nye and Coleman Barks
3:00p Featured Readings
Javier Zamora
Emmy Pérez
4:30p Open Mic or Optional Workshops or Manuscript Consultations
- Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Who Said Nights Were for Sleep: Writing Aubades and Nocturnes
- Kurt Heinzelman, Art and Windows
- Tomás Morín, Random Gifts: Finding Poems in the Accidental
Manuscript Consultations:
Liz Garton Scanlon
6:00p Dinner
8:00p Featured Readings
Coleman Barks
Naomi Shihab Nye
Special Music Presentation, Isaac Peña
Reception to follow immediately
Sunday, April 22
9:00a Distance Avails Not! Hosted by Judy Jensen
9:45a Featured Reading
Carrie Fountain
11:15a Time to Write or Optional Workshops
- Laura Van Prooyen, Image and Memory
- Naomi Shihab Nye, Ways of Beginning
- Liz Garton Scanlon, Writing Picture Books: The Rules and Wonder of Crafting Verse for Young People
Manuscript Consultations
Kurt Heinzelman
1:00p Garden Party Picnic and Anthology Reading