Taking a workshop with Leatha Kendrick is a right of passage! Not only that, but also the news is begging to be written about.

Hope to see you to this two-hour workshop, brought to you by Accents Publishing and the Carnegie Center for Literacy & Learning!

The News from Poetry

It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there.

–William Carlos Williams
“Asphodel that Greeny Flower”

Poetry is news that stays new, Ezra Pound said. What is it of our own lives that will stay new? How do we give voice to this moment in time? It is not so much the what as it is the how of our poems—the line and its mystery, our images and diction, the unexpected metaphor—that cause poems to remain fresh.

In this session, we will consider how poems convey both the timely and the timeless. Using prompts we will explore how we might craft poems that stay new, poems to surprise a future reader with a sense of our particular time.

Leatha Kendrick’s poetry, essays, and articles appear in journals and anthologies, including the Red Branch Review, Good River Review, Kansas City Review, Appalachian Journal, the Anthology of Appalachian Writers (Volume XVII); The Southern Poetry Anthology (Volume 3); and What Comes Down to Us – Twenty-Five Contemporary Kentucky Poets. In 2025, Kendrick was awarded the 10th annual Judy Gaines Young Award by Transylvania University, “recognizing exceptional works of Appalachian writers.” And Luckier, from Accents Publishing (2020), is her fifth collection of poems.

The News from Poetry with Leatha Kendrick
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/e3E_3SzCQjuTcMzzGUIUlA
https://bit.ly/news_poetry
Thursday, April 9, 6-8pm
Online
$40