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2025 Poetry Retreat Announced

2025 Poetry Retreat Announced

The Sundress Academy for the Arts is thrilled to announce its 2025 poetry retreat, which runs from June 7-8, 2025. All SAFTA retreats focus on generative writing, and this year’s retreat will also include the following craft talk sessions: “Life Distilled: Poetic Mapping of Personal Transformation” and “Intertextualities, Multimodalities, and Expanded Field Poetics.” There will also be sessions on publishing your own work in literary journals, creating generative writing exercises, and more! Included will also be a faculty reading, an open mic, and space for conversations among participants.

The event will be open to poets of all backgrounds and experience levels and provide an opportunity to work with many talented authors and poets from around the country, including workshop leaders Kenzie Allen and Tatiana Johnson-Boria.

a brown haired, brown eyed Indigenous woman wearing a blue floral patterned button-down shirt and yellow horsehair-like thread earrings smiles at the camera.

Kenzie Allen is the author of Cloud Missives (Tin House, 2024). She is a Haudenosaunee poet and multimodal artist, and the recipient of a 92NY Discovery Prize, an inaugural James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poets, the 49th Parallel Award in poetry, broadside prizes from Sundress Publications and Littoral Press, and fellowships from Vermont Studio Center, Aspen Writers’ Foundation, and In-Na-Po (Indigenous Nations Poets). A finalist for the National Poetry Series, her work has appeared in Poetry, Boston Review, Narrative, Best New Poets, and other venues. Her research centers on documentary and visual poetics, literary cartography, and the enactment of Indigenous sovereignties through creative works. She is a first-generation descendant of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin.

Tatiana Johnson-Boria sits leaning slightly on her right arm, which rests on a small table with crystals and a stack of books with a house plant on top of it. She wears a metallic rust-colored dress with gold circular earrings, a small gold nose ring, and a ring. She looks toward the viewer with a slight smile. Behind her, there is a large house plant and a purple backdrop.

Tatiana Johnson-Boria (she/her) is the author of Nocturne in Joy (Sundress Publications 2023),winner of the 2024 Julia Ward Howe Book Prize in poetry. She’s an educator, artist, and facilitator who uses her writing practice to dismantle racism, reckon with trauma, and to cultivate healing. She’s an award-winning writer who has received fellowships from Tin House, The Massachusetts Cultural Council, The MacDowell Residency, and others. Tatiana completed her MFA in Creative Writing at Emerson College and teaches at Emerson College, GrubStreet, and others. Find her work in or forthcoming at The Academy of American Poets, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, among others. She’s represented by Lauren Scovel at Laura Gross Literary.

The total cost of attendance is $75. We will be offering five full fellowships for this year’s retreat, at least three of which will go to support emerging writers of color.

To apply for a fellowship, please upload a packet of 5-8 pages of poetry along with a brief statement on why you would like to attend this workshop no later than April 1, 2025. Winners will be contacted mid-April.

Space at this workshop is limited, so reserve your place today.

All work published at Sundress or any of its publications retains the author's original copyright and may not be reprinted without the author's express written consent.

 

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