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Ars Poetica

Virtual Poetry Salon with City of Rockford Poet Laureate

Explore the art of poetry during National Poetry Month with special guest presenter, poet Susan Porterfield, City of Rockford Poet Laureate, Christine Swanberg, and Youth Poet Laureate Jocelyn Kuntz.

Join us for a unique view of poetry to celebrate National Poetry Month.

Ars Poetica is a salon that will look at writing about poetry, poets, and why we write. We welcome our first salon guest, Susan Azar Porterfield, who will share her insights on the art and practice of poetry. Susan Azar Porterfield has three books of poetry: In the Garden of Our Spines, Kibbe (Mayapple Press) and Dirt, Root, Silk, which won the Cider Press Review Editor’s Prize.  Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Barrow Street, Mid-American Review, North American Review, Crab Orchard Review, Nimrod, Rhino, Puerto del Sol, Poetry Ireland Review, Slipstream, Room, Ambit, and elsewhere.  She's the editor of Zen, Poetry, the Art of Lucien Stryk (Ohio UP) and has written on poetical subjects for Poets & Writers, The Writer’s Chronicle, Translation Review, The Midwest Journal of the Modern Language Association.  She is the recipient of an Illinois Arts Counsel Award for Poetry and a Fulbright grant to Lebanon.

Poet Laureate of Rockford, Christine Swanberg, and Youth Poet Laureate, Jocelyn Kuntz will discuss their poetic journeys and will share some of their poetry. Christine will provide a few mini-prompts for inspiration.

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