At the Inkwell RVA Guest Workshop & $100 Poem A Day Competition with Derek Kannemeyer: Daily Poems for National Poetry Month

At the Inkwell RVA Guest Workshop & $100 Poem A Day Competition with Derek Kannemeyer: Daily Poems for National Poetry Month

Weekend Workshops (OLD) | This class is completed

1812 West Main Street Richmond, VA 23220 United States

Weinstein

All Levels

4/15/2017 (one day)

10:00 AM-12:00 PM EDT on Sat

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$25.00

We’ll discuss ways to approach the challenge of writing a new poem a day for a month. There will be model poems to consider, prompts to try on the spot, and a month’s worth of prompts to take away for later. Students will also be invited to join a Google Group to post and share daily poems until the end of the month to vie for a $25 prize.

  • $100 Poem of the Day Competition: Immediately after the workshop we will hold a free public reading at 12:15pm. Participants are limited to one poem each, and workshop attendees get dibs on the first reading slots. Poems read must have been written during the first 15 days of April. There will be cash awarded for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners for the Poem of the Day. For more details, click here.
Kannemeyer, Derek

Derek Kannemeyer was born in Cape Town and raised in London, and for thirty years he taught Creative Writing and French at St. Catherine's School in Richmond. His own work has appeared in a wide range of publications, including Fiction International, The Saint Ann’s Review, The New Virginia Review, Rattapallax, Smartish Pace, Poetry Motel, Wind, and Rolling Stone. 2017 will mark his eighth year of participation in an April Challenge group, whose members write daily poems in celebration of National Poetry Month.