Events

Bring your blank pages or your current writing project to the Carnegie Center for a series of intensive and generative writing retreats. Leatha Kendrick will provide writing exercises and prompts designed to help you find the heart of the writing you want to do. Come to deepen your working draft or to find the spark […]

Where can you find journals and magazines to publish your poems, stories, and essays? How do you choose the right ones for work? How do you format your work for publication? What goes on behind the scenes on an editorial team? How do you keep track of your submissions? What can you expect from the […]

Write What You Don't Know: A Workshop in Immersion Poetics with Lynnell Edwards ***This class has been postponed. Please contact Accents with questions.*** Though we're rightly inspired to write about the things we know best, sometimes looking out and around to the worlds we don't know brings opportunities for expansive new poetry. Sustained attention and […]

The prose poem as we know it today was “invented” as a type of subversive activity; to escape the rules of strict meter and rhyme that defined most poetry in the 19th century. Today the prose poem, while not broken into lines of verse, uses other techniques unique to poetry such as image, metaphor, and […]