THE PROSE POEM

This workshop will focus on prose poems, beginning with some information about the development of the form, its particular characteristics, and the possibilities it can offer. After exploring and discussing various examples, participants will be provided prompts. There will also be an opportunity for general sharing and discussion.

About the Presenter

Ann Fisher-Wirth’s eighth book is Into the Chalice of Your Thoughts, a poetry/photography collaboration with Wilfried Raussert, with facing page translations into Spanish by the Women in Translation group, mounted at the Guadalajara Book Festival (Guadalajara University Press, 2023). Her seventh book is Paradise Is Jagged and her fifth, a poetry/photography collaboration with Maude Schuyler Clay, is Mississippi. With Laura-Gray Street, Ann coedited Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology (forthcoming Trinity University Press, 2025). A senior fellow of the Black Earth Institute, Ann has had Fulbrights to Switzerland and Sweden, and residencies at Djerassi, Hedgebrook, Storyknife, and elsewhere. Her awards and prizes include three poetry fellowships from the Mississippi Arts Commission, the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry Prize, a Rita Dove Poetry Prize, a Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, and the 2023 Governor’s Award for Excellence in Poetry from the Mississippi Arts Commission. Ann retired in 2022 from the University of Mississippi, where she taught and directed the Environmental Studies program for 34 years.

MEETING INFORMATION

This program will be presented during our upcoming PST member meeting, to be held March 8 from 2:00 – 4:00 pm Eastern / 1:00 – 3:00 pm Central via Zoom. Members will be provided a link a few days prior. If you are interested in learning more about PST, check out our website. If you’d like to attend our meeting as a guest, contact us at poetrytennessee@gmail.com.