Festival Schedule
Friday, April 19
3:30 p.m. Time to Write or Optional Workshops or Portfolio Consultations
- Kimiko Hahn, “Talking Back”
- James Crews, “The Wonder of Small Things: Mindful Description in Poetry”
- Nick Courtright, “The Magic of Directness”
Portfolio Consultations
- David Meischen
- William Wenthe
5:00 p.m. Panel Discussion: “Heartfulness”
Danusha Laméris, James Crews, ire’ne lara silva, José Antonio Rodríguez
6:00 p.m. Dinner
7:30 p.m. Silent Auction opens
8:00 p.m. Featured Readings
Danusha Laméris
Naomi Shihab Nye
Book Signing and Kafe Kaffeine, Round Top Fellows Reading, to follow immediately
Saturday, April 20
9:00 a.m. After-Breakfast New Books Club! hosted by Cindy Huyser
A showcase of new books by our P@RT community members
10:30 a.m. Open Mic or Optional Workshops or Manuscript Consultations
- Naomi Shihab Nye, “Earth Verse”
- Danusha Laméris, “Strata”
- William Wenthe, “Metaphor and Simile: The Inner Workings”
Portfolio Consultations
- David Meischen
12:00 p.m. On Craft
Poetic Closure: Ending a Poem with Resonance by Kimiko Hahn
So often a poem feels abandoned in the final lines, as if the writer just wanted to get the revision over with. So often, the endings feel tacked on or just good-enough. How to take the poem further and deeper? My talk will describe how tools of craft can enable a writer to find resonance.
1:00 p.m. Lunch
2:30 p.m. On Craft
You, You, You: The Art of the Lyric Address in Poetry by Pádraig Ó Tuama
A poem is a word event going in many directions at once. Sometimes the you of a poem is a specific person, other times it’s the poet, other times it’s a general audience, and still other times, there’s no you at all, so the poem addresses itself to the world. In this talk, Pádraig Ó Tuama will explore the direction, implication and inspiration contained in poetic verse.
3:30 p.m. Featured Readings
José Antonio Rodríguez
James Crews
Book signing to follow immediately
4:30 p.m. Open Mic Optional Workshops
- ire’ne lara silva, “Contemplating Mortality to Fuel Your Writing Practice”
- David Meischen, “Writing the Prose Poem”
Portfolio Consultations
- William Wenthe
6:00 p.m. Dinner
7:45 p.m. Silent Auction closes
8:00 p.m. Featured Readings
Kimiko Hahn
Pádraig Ó Tuama
Book Signing and Reception to follow immediately
Sunday, April 21
9:00 a.m. Distance Avails Not! Hosted by Judy Jensen
10:15 a.m. Featured Reading
ire’ne lara silva
11:00 a.m. Time to Write or Optional Workshops
- Pádraig Ó Tuama, “Poetry and Story”
- José Antonio Rodríguez, “Setting and Writing the Self”
- David Meischen, “Intersections of the Other and the Personal in the Ekphrastic Poem”
Portfolio Consultations:
- William Wenthe
12:30 p.m. Garden Party and P@RT Anthology Reading