Poetry Society of Tennessee (PST) holds an annual poetry festival for members and guests. Join us for a celebration of poets and poetry from Tennessee and beyond.
Festival Details
This free event will be held April 13, from 2:00 – 5:00 pm Eastern via Zoom. PST members and guests will be provided a link.
The festival will include a workshop presented by William G. Wright, announcement of contest winners and a reading of winning poems.
Festival Workshop
William G. Wright will present “The 8 Senses, Socratic Ignorance, Perspective: How to Approach Revision”. In this workshop, William will explain the eight senses, Socratic ignorance (learning more to understand that one will always need to learn), and how to use perspective to create more interesting writing in poetry.
William G. Wright is the author or editor of twenty-three nationally and internationally distributed books, including Grass Chapels: New & Selected Poems (Mercer University Press, 2021) and four chapbooks, including April Creatures (Blue Horse Press, 2016). Wright is series editor and volume co-editor of The Southern Poetry Anthology (Texas Review Press), a multivolume celebration of contemporary Southern writers. He is co-editor (with Daniel Cross Turner) of the critically acclaimed Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry (The University of South Carolina Press); and Wright co-edited (with Daniel Westover) an anthology of poems centered on the Victorian poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins (Clemson University Press & University of Liverpool Press). His work has won the Appalachian Book of the Year Award, the Georgia Author of the Year Award, the Georgia Editor of the Year Award, the Terrain.org Grand Prize, the Porter Fleming Prize in Literature, the South Carolina Poetry Initiative Prize, and many other honors.
Wright has taught creative writing and literature at Oxford College of Emory University, Emory University, The University of Tennessee Knoxville (as Writer-in-Residence), Reinhardt University, and directed masterclasses at over twenty universities throughout the United States. He earned a Ph.D. in Creative Writing (Poetry) and American Literature (while studying British Literature independently) at the University of Southern Mississippi’s Center for Writers, where he was selected as a Center for Writers Excellence in Teaching Fellow.
A lover of surrealist visual art, British comedy, and the study of cosmology, he is a devotee of the music of J. S. Bach, as well as other music of the Baroque era.
Festival Contest and Readings
Learn who won the 67th Annual Festival contests and enjoy a reading of winning poems, including an announcement of the Best of the Fest, selected by presenter William Wright.
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