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Sunday, May 6 • 10:15am - 11:15am
Building an Online Writing Community: Lessons from the Poetry Cleanse FILLING

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All writers need community. For the last two years, a group of 20+ poets from Massachusetts and beyond have participated in a monthly online Poetry Cleanse: a week-long sprint where each member commits to writing something (a new poem, a revision, even just a line) and sharing it with the group each day. Poems from the Cleanse have been widely published and the exchange has provided inspiration and the opportunity to practice and take risks in a safe and supportive environment. Five participants read work that arose from the Cleanse, discuss how the community and the accountability it fosters has affected their poetry practice, and share lessons learned in order to help participants create their own online writing communities.
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K. T. Landon

K. T. Landon is the author of Orange, Dreaming (Five Oaks Press, 2017) and received her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her poems have appeared in The Sun, The Southern Review, New Ohio Review, Nimrod, Spillway, North American Review, Narrative, and Best New Poets. She is... Read More →

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Jennifer Martelli

Co-Poetry Editor, MER
Jennifer Martelli is the author of The Queen of Queens, selected as a “Must Read” by the Massachusetts Center for the Book, and My Tarantella, also selected as a “Must Read,” awarded an Honorable Mention from the Italian-American Studies Association and named as a finalist... Read More →
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Rebecca Hart Olander

Writing Teacher / Editor & Director, Perugia Press
Rebecca Hart Olander’s poetry has appeared recently in Bracken, Crab Creek Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Jet Fuel Review, The Massachusetts Review, and others, and her collaborative visual and written work has been published in multiple venues in print and online and in They... Read More →

Sunday May 6, 2018 10:15am - 11:15am EDT
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