Each session will be three-hours long with a break at halfway. You can expect lectures from me, rich discussion with your peers, generative writing opportunity, and bespoke feedback.
Register here, and let me know if you have any questions: janehuffman.as.me?appointmentT...
Poets! I have decided to offer a seven-week, six-session course on poetic forms and formal experimentation this spring. March 28 to May 9. April 18 will be off.
We will deeply engage with one poetic form (as well as many of its propagations, manifestations, and spin-offs) each week. 1/
Really excited to be on this panel of Childfree & Childless Women Writers at #AWP26 with such impressive and talented humans: @stevieedwards.bsky.social, @janehuffman.bsky.social, @kaicoggin.bsky.social, & @christinastoddard.bsky.social. If you’re in Baltimore next week, come thru! Details below 😊
Very much looking forward to reading with @janehuffman.bsky.social and Patrick Donnelly virtually on 11/20, 7pm EST. Hosted by the wonderful @poetmercurio.bsky.social: bit.ly/HospiceBookL...
Thank you for sharing!
It is October, so here is my poem, "October," published in Swamp Pink this month. Thank you to the editors, and thank you for reading. 🍁🍂 swamp-pink.charleston.edu/featured/oct...
“The maple / tree that grows out / of his head is heavy / with the longing / of the dead. My brother’s / death is long, and heavy / as a year. I’ve mourned /my living brother all my life.” — @janehuffman.bsky.social, “Three Odes” poetrysociety.org/award-winner...
(Breaking my hiatus to say that) I would love to see you in this week's Pop-Up Poetry workshop sessions on Zoom. As a reminder, the $30.00 fee includes substantive line edits and feedback from me! You can register for all of the above sessions online here:
www.janehuffman.com/pop-up-works...
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Poets: Have a new draft? I have seats open in my 2-hour poetry workshop running tomorrow, Thursday, June 18 from 5–7 p.m. MT. It is $30.00 for the session, and you'll get smart, friendly eyes on your work as well as line edits from me. Email me: janechuffman [at] gmail [dot] com
Book cover with the title "Hospice" author Molly Akin and the text "Winner of the New Women's Voices Prize in Poetry." The book cover is a collage depicting a mountain range, window with greenery, water with shoreline in the distance, three columns, a marble water fountain with a lions head, hammered golden urn, and a bouquet of flowers. Image also includes the Finishing Line Press logo, a photo of the author, and the text "Pre-Order for 15% off" with a QR code directing to the sales page for the book. https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/hospice-by-molly-akin-nwvs-186/
"Akin’s is not the language of life but the language of death, of near-death and after-death: that fragment, or moan that is whispered across the “gash // wound” between the living and the dying..." Forever grateful to @janehuffman.bsky.social for the blurb and her generous guidance 🙏
🎵🎵🎵 There are currently three open seats in my spring class, taught ONLINE on ZOOM via Iowa Summer Writing Festival, called "Writing Soundly: Fine-Tuning the Acoustics of your Poetry." It begins on Saturday May 3. Register here: tinyurl.com/37jphazz
A new short essay on reading Merwin, on my substack: letternews.substack.com/p/three-threes
“My relationship with the poems is more essential than any publishing accomplishment or lack thereof.”
Diane Seuss gets a shout-out for her evergreen wisdom. Many thanks to ed. Luciano Grigera Naón for reaching out, and for the questions, and to Elizabeth Scanlon, for facilitating.
A few thoughts I shared with Poets & Writers Magazine last fall, on submitting poetry and book manuscripts and surviving the contest "marketplace." I hope you enjoy it.
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Light in Austin
The thrift gods have smiled upon me today. 🥹
lime & mezcal curd, vanilla wafer crust, blackened coriander meringue, white choco pearls 😈
Look at this pie
Spotted on campus this morning. Thanks to the person who posted this.
I love it when strangers talk like the end of an MFA play. In the airport, just now —
Man: Everyone is going home, Jean.
Woman: Everyone is going somewhere.
Heading to Austin, TX for a two-week residency at UT tomorrow morning –– I will share more details later. My first time in the state. Will send pics ~
I’m sorry but we’re just going to have to go back to Knowing Things I’m afraid
The contempt for all public health measures is staggering with them.
Screengrab of FLP website announcing Molly Akin's manuscript, Hospice, as the 2024 winner of the New Women's Voices Chapbook Contest
I'm so happy to share that I won the 2024 New Women’s Voices Chapbook Competition! Huge thanks to @finishinglinepress.bsky.social for this opportunity and @janehuffman.bsky.social for her guidance in and out of workshop. Another big TY to @josehernandezdz.bsky.social for his prose poem workshop!
Adrienne Rich, for your mid-winter blues
With coursework, comps, and life, I managed to publish one (1) poem in 2024, and it is that one (1) poem that I will proudly send off to the races this year. Wish her luck. With thanks to the ed. who nominated me. 🐎🐎🐎
CWC doors are open through 2/5! Join a community of nearly 200 writers from all over the world. ✨
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On the level of a Scofield guitar lesson:
