Find Us at #AWP19 in Portland, plus a Free Digital Issue

In celebration of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference this week, we have a collection of special offers for you, dear reader (whether you’re attending AWP or not)!

For those in Portland for the conference, stop by booth 4026 for special subscription deals, enamel pins, recent issues of Poetry, prints of our 2018 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows, and more. The first 100 subscribers will receive a free tote, so be sure to get there early. Come say hello to Poetry Foundation staff at the booth or at their panels, and join us for a special VS Live! event on Thursday night, where you can score a free VS mug (details below). We’re also sponsoring a talk by Martín Espada called “Filthy Presidentiad: Walt Whitman in the Age of Trump.”

Not at AWP? You can still get our special subscription offer by clicking here! We also have a free digital issue for download in the Poetry magazine app: a collection of the last five years of Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows. In the fellowship’s thirty-year history, recipients have included Kaveh Akbar, Fatimah Asghar, Jos Charles, Ilya Kaminsky, Roger Reeves, Erika L. Sánchez, Natalie Shapero, Solmaz Sharif, Danez Smith, Ocean Vuong, Christian Wiman, and many others. If you’re a poet between the ages of 21–31, you have until April 30 to apply.

Poetry Foundation Events at AWP

Thursday, March 28, 2019, 9:00 am to 10:15 am
R134. How to Build a Poetry Library
E143-144, Oregon Convention Center, Level 1
Featuring Maggie Queeney, Poetry Foundation library coordinator

Thursday, March 28, 2019, 1:30 pm to 2:45 pm
R247. Dear Lit Mag Editors: Now What?
Portland Ballroom 255, Oregon Convention Center, Level 2
Featuring Lindsay Garbutt, associate editor of Poetry

Thursday, March 28, 2019, 10:00 PM to 12:00AM
VS Live! AWP Crossover Edition with Poetry Magazine Podcast
p:ear gallery, 338 NW 6th Ave., Portland, OR 97209
Hosted by Danez Smith, Franny Choi, and Lindsay Garbutt
Featuring Poetry contributors Kazim Ali and Brenda Shaughnessy
(Free VS mug for the first 75 guests)

Friday, March 29, 2019, 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm
F212. Filthy Presidentiad: Walt Whitman in the Age of Trump, Sponsored by the Poetry Foundation
Portland Ballroom 253-254, Oregon Convention Center, Level 2
Featuring Martín Espada, 2018 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize recipient

Saturday, March 30, 2019, 10:30 am to 11:45 am
S175. 2019 Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards Reading
Cody D. Todd Memorial Stage, Exhibit Hall, Oregon Convention Center, Level 1
Moderated by Don Share, editor of Poetry

See you soon!