Member Programs 2025-2026 Program Year

For your contest entry, please note the member meeting presentation/workshop applicable month, year, and topic/form to which you are responding. 
(Meeting replay links are available on your latest meeting notice.)
 
May 2025 Janisse Ray: At the Intersection of Poetry and Nature (the natural world as inspiration) 
June 2025 Generative Prompts with Jake Lawson (see replay for specific prompts)
July 2025 John Davis Jr: Allusion and IIlusions (Using the appropriate amount of literary and cultural influence on your poetry)
August 2025 Heather Dobbins: persona poems (examples and techniques for persona poems)
September 2025 Thomas Alan Holmes: the Lyrical "I" (how to use the lyrical "I" to create truth in autobiographically influenced poems without actual events getting in the way)
October 2025 Valencia Robin on lyric and narrative poems
November 2025 N/A (meeting on submitting poems)
December 2025 Celebration of member poems (for this contest, write a poem "after" a member poets' work)
January 2026 CHECK BACK FOR DETAILS
February 2026 CHECK BACK FOR DETAILS
March 2026 CHECK BACK FOR DETAILS


Miss a meeting? Members get access to replays of our monthly member programs. Links are included in meeting invites.