Listen and learn about regional poetry while learning how to write your own!

In celebration of Native Plant Week, poet Rose McLarney will present selections from her books informed by the flora of the region, and lead the group in reading and discussing examples of poems about native plants by other writers from A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia. Then Rose will provide creative writing prompts and observation exercises, give you time to draft some of your own writing, and invite you to share your work. Have a paper and pen ready and access to the outdoors or a view out a window. Forage and A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia are recommended texts, but not required. (Rose will share the poems referenced on-screen during the workshop.)

Rose McLarney’s collections of poems are Forage and Its Day Being Gone, both from Penguin Poets, as well as The Always Broken Plates of Mountains, published by Four Way Books. She is co-editor of A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia, from University of Georgia Press, and the journal Southern Humanities Review. Rose has been awarded fellowships by the MacDowell Colony and Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences; served as Dartmouth Poet in Residence at the Frost Place; and is winner of the National Poetry Series, the Chaffin Award for Achievement in Appalachian Writing, and the Fellowship of Southern Writers’ New Writing Award for Poetry, among other prizes. Her work has appeared in publications including The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, Missouri Review, and The Oxford American. Rose earned her MFA from Warren Wilson’s MFA Program for Writers. Currently, she is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Auburn University.

*This is a virtual event. You will be sent a link once you complete registration. Registration by donation; proceeds to benefit the Foxfire Museum.

Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/blooms-here-a-poetry-workshop-tickets-153847992487

Learn more about Rose McLarney at https://www.rosemclarney.com/