WCU Poetry Conference Poetry House
Director: Michael Peich
Coordinator: Jamie Smith
West Chester University
West Chester, PA 19383
610-436-3235 poetry@wcupa.edu
One-Day
Poetry
Workshops & Faculty
WILLIAM BAER
How to Submit Your Work to Journals: Editing and Revising Your Work for Publication
William Baer, currently a Guggenheim fellow, is the author or editor of fifteen books. His four poetry collections include The Unfortunates, recipient of the T.S. Eliot Poetry Award, and "Bocage" and Other Sonnets, recipient of the X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize. He was the founding editor of The Formalist (1990-2004), and is a former Fulbright scholar and the recipient of an NEA Creative Writing Grant. He currently serves as the director of the Richard Wilbur Poetry Series, is a contributing editor at Measure, and is the director of the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize.
DAVID SANDERS
Assembling Your First Manuscript
David Sanders has served as editor-in-chief at the University of Arkansas Press and director of the Purdue University Press. Director of the Ohio University Press and Swallow Press since 1996, his poetry has been collected in two chapbooks/fine editions. He received his BFA in Creative Writing from Bowling Green State University and his MFA from the University of Arkansas, where he also did post-graduate work in translation.
RICHARD WILBUR
Richard Wilbur on Poetic Craft: Conversation with Dana Gioia
Richard Wilbur has received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (2006), two National Book Awards, and the Bollingen Translation Prize. He has served as the Poet Laureate of the United States and is the only living American poet to have won the Pulitzer Prize twice, first for his third book of poetry, Things of This World (1956) and for New and Collected Poems (1989). Along with his award winning poetry, Wilbur spent forty years translating Moliere's major comedies, which have been staged across the country.