Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets

In June 2013, the Stadler Center will conduct the twenty-ninth annual Seminar for Younger Poets. Held for three weeks in June, the Seminar provides an extended opportunity for undergraduate poets to write and to be guided by established poets. Staff and visiting poets conduct writing workshops and offer lecture/discussions, present readings of their own work, and are available for individual conferences. In the past, such poets as Linda Gregg, Terrance Hayes, Dana Levin, Mary Ruefle, Gerald Stern, David St. John, Arthur Sze, and Brigit Pegeen Kelly have served as visiting poets. Numerous readings provide the participants with the opportunity to hear and be heard by their peers. Applicants compete for ten places in the Seminar, all of which come with fellowships. Fellowships include tuition, housing in campus apartments, and meals. Accepted students are responsible only for their travel to Bucknell and a modest library deposit. A limited number of travel scholarships are available on the basis of need. The 2013 staff will include Seminar Director G.C. Waldrep, Associate Director Deirdre O'Connor, and Stadler Fellows Carolina Ebeid and Jamaal May. Visiting poets Jean Valentine and Dan Beachy-Quick will complete the lineup.

The 2013 Seminar will be held June 9–June 30. The application deadline is January 31, 2013. For eligibility and application requirements, and to submit an application, please use the SCP Application Portal page, at right. For Frequently Asked Questions about the application process, click here.

 

 

VISITING POETS, JUNE 2013

For the 2013 Seminar, visiting poets Dan Beachy-Quick and Jean Valentine will join director G. C. Waldrep and staff members Deirdre O'Connor, Carolina Ebeid, and Jamaal May.

Dan Beachy-Quick is the author of four collections of poetry, mostly recently This Nest, Swift Passerine, and two collections of essays. A graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, he has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Colorado State University. He lives in Fort Collins.

 

 

 

Jean Valentine's Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 won the 2004 National Book Award. Her first book, Dream Barker, won the 1965 Yale Younger Poets prize. Break the Glass, her eleventh book, was published in 2009. A longtime resident of New York City, Valentine has received many major honors and awards for her poetry.

 

 

 


STAFF POETS

G. C. Waldrep, Director

G.C. Waldrep is the author of Goldbeater's Skin (winner of the 2003 Colorado Prize for Poetry), Disclamor (2007), and Arichembalo (2009, Winner of the Dorset Prize from Tupelo Press). His fourth full-length collection, Your Father on the Train of Ghosts, in collaboration with John Gallaher, appeared in April 2011. His work has received awards from the Poetry Society of America, the Academy of American Poets, the Campbell Corner Foundation, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. He held a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature. Waldrep holds a Ph.D. in American history from Duke University and an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. At Bucknell, he is the Margaret Ley Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing, edits West Branch, and directs the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets. He also serves as Editor-at-Large for The Kenyon Review.

Deirdre O'Connor, Associate Director

Deirdre O'Connor's book, Before the Blue Hour, was the winner of the Cleveland State Poetry Prize for 2001. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Natural Bridge, and Painted Bride Quarterly, among others, and new poems are forthcoming in Crazyhorse and Pebble Lake Review. Her second manuscript of poems, "Mouth of the Sparrow" has been a frequent finalist and will annoy her until it finds a home. She is Director of the Bucknell Writing Center and Associate Director of the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets.


Jamaal May, Seminar Associate

Jamaal May was raised by two auto workers in Detroit, MI, where he eventually taught poetry in public schools. After making a living as a self-taught poet and musician, Jamaal went on to publish two chapbooks, earn an MFA from Warren Wilson, and be featured in Callaloo, Indiana Review, and Michigan Quarterly Review among other journals, films, and broadcasts. He's the recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, Callaloo, and Bucknell University, where he was named the 2011-2013 Stadler Fellow. His first full-length collection, Hum won the 2012 Beatrice Hawley Award and will be published fall 2013 by Alice James Books.

Carolina Ebeid, Seminar Associate

Carolina Ebeid holds a degree from the Michener Center for Writers, where she served as poetry editor for the Bat City Review.  Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, Poetry, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, Agni-online, H_NGM_N and other journals. She is currently at work on her first manuscript.