Chautauqua Writers’ Center

In Final Workshops, Adrian Matejka and Beth Loffreda to Explore Voice and Inheritance

by Amy Guay on August 16, 2019

Matejka Loffreda No matter how integral the concept of voice is to Adrian Matejka, Indiana’s poet laureate is grateful that there is a difference between his voice “in the world” and the voices that animate

Sony Ton-Aime, Authors’ Hour Poet, Builds Homes in Language

by Amy Guay on August 7, 2019

Ton-Aime When Sony Ton-Aime writes poetry, he is devoted to the stanza’s literal definition. In its original Italian, stanza means

In Brown Bag on Inspiration, Nicole Cooley to Discuss Life of Objects

by Amy Guay on August 5, 2019

Cooley A pillow from high school, a fax machine and a glue stick — all ordinary things suggestive of a

Roy Hoffman to Enliven History in Literature in Brown Bag Evening Lecture

by Amy Guay on July 30, 2019

Hoffman Roy Hoffman thinks stories have the capacity to reverberate across eras. During his Week Six writer-in-residence reading on Sunday

Poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil Talks Dusk and Dawn in Brown Bag Lecture

by Amy Guay on July 29, 2019

Aimee Nezhukumatathil In “The Woman Who Turned Down a Date with a Cherry Farmer,” a poem from Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s 2003

Week Six Writers-in-Residence Roy Hoffman, Dustin Parsons and Aimee Nezhukumatathil Talk Curiosity and Collaboration

by Amy Guay on July 27, 2019

A workshop, according to Roy Hoffman, is “not only a round-robin of texts, but also a circle of creative souls.” The author of three novels will teach an advanced prose workshop at the Chautauqua

Abraham Smith to Link Writing Poems to Life Spent Farming in Brown Bag Lecture

by Amy Guay on July 22, 2019

Abraham Smith When he was a “squirmy, shouty” grade school student, Abraham Smith entered an environmental speech contest. “I’ve always

Week Five Writers-in-Residence Talk Politics, Bodies and Rule-Breaking

by Amy Guay on July 19, 2019

The personal is indeed political for Shara McCallum, a Week Five poet-in-residence at the Chautauqua Writers’ Center. However, within the

Trio of Institution Staff to Discuss Reading Trends and Changes at Chautauqua

by Deborah Trefts on July 9, 2019

Heads-up all book lovers and porch sitters: “Porch Reads 2019” is the topic for this week’s Chautauqua Speaks program

Writer-in-residence Lenore Myka to talk rules, why to break them in final Brown Bag of season

by Emma Francois on August 23, 2018

Lenore Myka has always loved rules. Lenore Myka But today, she is going to talk about breaking them. “I was

Chautauqua Literary Arts Friends Annual Writing Contests a success with record-breaking numbers

by Emma Francois on August 23, 2018

The winners of the record-breaking Chautauqua Literary Arts Friends’ annual writing contests were announced Thursday, Aug. 16, on the porch of the Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall. After a warm welcome from president of

Poetry writer-in-residence Neil Shepard to talk poems that reveal, conceal in Brown Bag

by Emma Francois on August 20, 2018

The topic of Neil Shepard’s Brown Bag takes its inspiration from the “great-grandparents” of American poetry — Emily Dickinson and

In season’s final week of workshops, writers-in-residence Neil Shepard, Lenore Myka to tackle revision

by Emma Francois on August 17, 2018

In the final week of the Chautauqua Writers’ Center, workshops will take a step back and focus on revision. Lenore

Prose writer-in-residence Toni Jensen to discuss risk-taking in Brown Bag lecture

by Emma Francois on August 16, 2018

When people read or listen to Toni Jensen’s writing, they seem to always ask her about risky business. Toni Jensen

Poet-in-residence Lillian-Yvonne Bertram to discuss art of surprise, ‘bizarre’ in Brown Bag

by Emma Francois on August 13, 2018

For a Brown Bag on “surprise,” Lillian-Yvonne Bertram takes inspiration from a fairly familiar poet: Robert Frost. Bertram is the Chautauqua Writers’ Center Week Eight poet-in-residence.

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Toni Jensen to explore the forgotten in Writers’ Center workshops

by Emma Francois on August 10, 2018

Both of the Chautauqua Writers’ Center writers-in-residence for Week Eight were similarly inspired by the overarching theme: “The Forgotten: History and Memory in the 21st Century.” Poet-in- residence Lillian-Yvonne Bertram will lead a workshop titled

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