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Collins Poetry Residency
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Sal Marici |
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The 2010 Collins
Poetry Residency
poet is Salvatore
Marici of Port
Byron, Ill.
Sal will serve
as
poet-in-residence
at the Midwest
Writing Center
throughout the
month of October
and facilitate
two workshops,
two public
readings, and an
online poetry
journal. One of
his goals for
the residency is
to encourage
community-based
poets who are
developing their
craft outside of
a formal
academic
setting, and to
provide a forum
to showcase
their work
through the
residency’s online
poetry journal and
in a public
reading of their
poems at 7 p.m.
on October 27 at
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Sal began writing poetry in
2002 and has never looked back. Since then,
his poetry has seen print in numerous
literary journals and regional and national
publications. In 2009, he took second place
in MWC’s Iron Pen contest, and this year was
a national finalist in the Mississippi River
Valley Poetry contest. He is a member of the
Quint City Poets and the LeClaire Writers,
and is a regular participant in MWC’s Out
Loud monthly open reading.
Over the month of October, Sal will engage
the community in a variety of poetry events
that will inspire others to experience their
community (past and present) through poetry
and to share the experience of place through
poetry. Through his own work and original
poems from members of the larger poetry
community, Sal will facilitate a dialogue of
poems that speak to the larger theme of
experiential place. He is seeking poems for
the online journal on places encountered
that served as inspiration or muse.
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