PB POETRY FESTIVAL to Host Poetry Workshop at Delray Beach Center for the Arts on 9/20

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. - Aug. 18, 2014 - PRLog -- PALM BEACH POETRY FESTIVAL

To Host Workshop at Delray Beach Center for the Arts
'Poems of If and When:
The Power of the Subjunctive & the Occasion'
Saturday, September 20 at 1 p.m.

(Delray Beach, FL – August 14, 2014)  The Palm Beach Poetry Festival is kicking of its 11th season with a special workshop for local poets and lovers of the literary arts: Poems of If and When: The Power of the Subjunctive and the Occasion.

Julie Marie Wade, MFA will teach this generative poetry workshop that will explore personal identity through both speculative and narrative writing prompts and example poets, including Lucille Clifton, Sharon Olds, Aaron Smith and Stacey Waite.

Ms. Wade earned a Master of Arts in English at Western Washington University, a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry at the University of Pittsburgh and, in 2013, a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities at the University of Louisville. She has received numerous prestigious honors including the Chicago Literary Award in Poetry (2004), the Gulf Coast Nonfiction Prize (2004), the Oscar Wilde Poetry Prize (2005), the Literal Latte Nonfiction Award (2006), two Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prizes (2006, 2010), the AWP Intro Journals Award for Nonfiction (2009), the American Literary Review Nonfiction Prize (2010), the Arts & LettersNonfiction Prize (2010), an Al Smith Artist Grant from the Kentucky Arts Council  (2010), the Thomas J. Hruska Nonfiction Prize (2011), the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir (2011), the Bloom Nonfiction Chapbook Prize (2012), a grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund (2012), and eight Pushcart Prize nominations.

Ms. Wade is the author of two collections of lyric nonfiction, Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures (Colgate University Press, 2010) and Small Fires (Sarabande Books, 2011); two collections of poetry, Without (Finishing Line Press, 2010) and Postage Due: Poems & Prose Poems (White Pine Press, 2013); the creative nonfiction chapbook Tremolo: An Essay (Bloom Press, 2013); and the newly released When I Was Straight: Poems (A Midsummer Night's Press, 2014).  She teaches in the creative writing program at Florida International University and lives with her spouse, Angie Griffin, in Dania Beach.

There will be a $10 per person fee collected at the workshop, and Ms. Wade’s poetry will be available for signing and purchase after the workshop. The Delray Beach Center for the Arts is located at 51 North Swinton Avenue. For more details about this workshop, please visithttp://palmbeachpoetryfestival.org/other/events/#WorkWade.

About the Palm Beach Poetry Festival 2015:
The 11th annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival will be held January 19-24, 2015 at the Delray Beach Center for the Arts. The Festival will once again feature about a dozen top poets at numerous ticketed public events, including readings, talks and a lively panel discussion.  In addition, workshop participants will read at several late-night open mics, free to the public. Tickets will go on sale to the public later this year through the festival website and at the Crest Theatre Box Office at the Delray Beach Center for the Arts.

The Palm Beach Poetry Festival is generously sponsored by The National Endowment for the Arts, Morgan Stanley, the Windler Group of Morgan Stanley’s Atlanta Office; the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County (http://www.palmbeachculture.com/) , the Palm Beach County Tourism Development Council and the Board of Commissioners of Palm Beach County; The Palm Beach Post (http://www.palmbeachpost.com/); Visit Florida; WLRN; and Murder on the Beach (http://www.murderonthebeach.com/), Delray Beach’s independent bookseller.

For more information about the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, please visit www.palmbeachpoetryfestival.org (http://www.palmbeachpoetryfestival.com/).

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