The Emerging
Poets Fellowship is an annual opportunity for poets to receive guidance and
instruction from a distinguished and diverse faculty and enter the next stage
of their professional and artistic practice.
Funded
for the fourth year by a generous grant from the Jerome Foundation, this
fellowship immerses poets in a twelve-week program consisting of workshops and
meetings that are reinforced by the inspiring environment here at Poets House,
including our poetry library and unique archives as well as a diverse offering
of readings and conversations by leading poets and scholars.
The
program includes weekly writing workshops, mentoring sessions, meetings with
guest speakers, free access to Poets House's events and archival resources and
culminates in a final group
reading. Transportation support is available for participants. The
application process is competitive; tuition is free to those accepted into the
program.
2015 Fellowship
Rachel
Eliza Griffiths will
lead the Fellowship in 2015. The next Fellowship application deadline will be December
1, 2014.
In spring
2015, the Emerging Poets Fellowship continues the momentum of three successful
years of the program, during which participants refined their craft and
established valuable friendships within the poetry community; information
about the application process can be found below. Tuition is free to
those accepted into the program.
2015 Schedule
The 2015 Emerging Poets Fellowship will meet Tuesday evenings, from March 3 to June 2, 2015. There will also be a special daylong session on one Saturday (date to be determined). A final public reading will take place on June 2, 2015. Fellows will also meet one–on–one with the workshop leader and distinguished guests at times to be determined. Special visits from editors and publishers will be part of the program. Fellows are encouraged to attend events at Poets House throughout the spring.
