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Fickett Farmstead

Our Maine Poetry Conference, offered in a two-day, intimate, private setting at historic Fickett Farm, is for small groups of poets who are dedicated to growing their work by leaps and bounds.

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Give yourself a weekend to privilege your poetry, bring five poems and leave ready to submit them or with all the tools to revise them for submission. Your poems will form the basis of examining advanced concepts in writing. Poets who attend Jeffrey’s conferences find a new confidence in their voices and a life-changing, refreshed approach to their writing.
Our supportive alumni group boasts publication success and nationwide (and international) community.

 

 



Enrollment and Logistics 

Each two-day conference meets daily from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. Lodging is not included in the conference fee.


Who

Limited to first 8 participants who enroll.

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When

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Fee

$650


Editorial Reviews of Full-Length or Chapbook Manuscripts

Participants in either session may sign up separately with Jeffrey Levine for an one-on-one review of your full-length or chapbook manuscript. Cost: $400 for chapbook length (up to 32 page), $800 for full-length (up to 54 page) manuscripts. (This represents a substantial discount for workshop attendees.)


Participant Comments

“I do feel that my editor’s eye has been trained in both the close read and the over-all picture. Being invited to questioning the strategy and the moment of a poem were very helpful techniques to me. Also, the emphasis on finding the place where a poem is hiding from itself, or where the speaker is hiding from where the poem wants to go–thinking in that way in those terms was revelatory. Thank you for a very valuable learning experience.”  –Renee Schell

“The conference was out of this world wonderful!  I loved having the sessions in homes.”  —Jill Murray

“I could go on for days about what I learned, but to sum it up I walked away with a valuable tool box much needed for improving my craft and tapping into more creativity; and how to dissect at poem as if it were a science project! I have experience with those helping my kids in science fair for so many years!  I learned to make each word a poem! I also benefited immensely from the list of journals for submissions and advice on submitting a full manuscript and names of publishers.”  —Lorene Zouzounis

“I’ve attended three conferences with Jeffrey and each one opens new doors to my writing. His editor’s eye teaches how to stand back from one’s work, with a positive attitude, and find just the right next step to take, whether a subtle tweak or radical revision. He engages all the senses, keeps a varied and respectful pace that demands your full engagement but does not exhaust you. His reading is incisive, his interactions generous, and his passion for the art infectious.”  —Nancy Meyer


Jeffrey Levine is the author of three books of poetry: Rumor of Cortez, nominated for a 2006 Los Angeles Times Literary Award in Poetry, Mortal, Everlasting, which won the 2002 Transcontinental Poetry Prize. A third book At the Kinnegad Home for the Bewildered is forthcoming from Salmon Press in February 2019. His many poetry prizes include the Larry Levis Prize from the Missouri Review, the James Hearst Poetry Prize from North American Review, the Mississippi Review Poetry Prize, the Ekphrasis Poetry Prize, and the American Literary Review poetry prize. His poems have garnered 14 Pushcart nominations. A graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, Levine is founder and Publisher of Tupelo Press, an award‐winning independent literary press located in the historic Eclipse Mill in the Berkshire Mountains of Western Massachusetts. In addition, he has served for several years on the core faculty of the Colrain Manuscript Conferences and is Director of the esteemed Tupelo Press Writing Conferences.


Contact Information

Email: conferences@tupelopress.org
Phone: 413‐664‐9611


Refund Policy: Refund up to 4 weeks prior each conference, less 15% processing fee.

 

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