Poetry Panel: How to Publish and Promote Your Work

Room: Career, Business, & Nonprofit Classroom, 2nd Floor | 10:00 AM- 11:00 AM

Moderator: Jake Grefenstette International Poetry Forum Director and Editor of CMU Press

Pre-registration is closing on Friday, 5/30, at 12 PM. Pre-registered attendees will receive priority seating. Walk-ins are welcome if capacity allows.

Description

You’ve written the work, edited, and workshopped it. Now you are ready to publish and share it with the world! Join us for an exciting panel discussion on where to begin.

Biography

Mike Good's poetry and book reviews can be found in Colorado Review, Foreword Reviews, Ploughshares, Waxwing, and elsewhere. He has received scholarships from The Sun, Aspen Words, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and he is at work on his first book. From 2018 to 2024, he served as managing editor at Autumn House Press. Find more at mikegoodwrites.wordpress.com.

M. Soledad Caballero is Professor of English and Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies at Allegheny College and a Macondo, CantoMundo, and StoryKnife fellow. Her collection, I Was a Bell (2021; Red Hen Press) was a 2022 International Latino Book Award winner. Her second collection, Flight Plan, is scheduled for publication with Red Hen Press in 2025. She’s an avid tv watcher and a terrible birder.

Michael Simms is a poet, novelist and publisher. He is the founding editor of Vox Populi and the founding editor emeritus of Autumn House Press. His novels include the YA fantasy series The Talon Trilogy. His recent poetry collections include Strange Meadowlark and Jubal Rising. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Scientific American and Poetry Daily published by the Academy of American Poets.

Maguerite Miller is an English and Journalism teacher in Pittsburgh. She is the Co-Founder and Editor of Lefty Blondie Press and a member of the Madwomen in the Attic. She has an MFA in Poetry from Chatham University where her poetry thesis was a finalist for Best Thesis in Poetry. Her poetry has appeared in Mangrove, IDK Magazine, The Labletter Notes, Perversion Magazine, and elsewhere.

Amy Lee Heinlen, poet and publisher based in Western Pennsylvania, is the author of All Else Falls to Shadow (Dancing Girl Press). Her recent poems appear in Literary Mama, MER, Feral, Pittsburgh Quarterly, Amethyst Review, and elsewhere. Heinlen is co-founder and co-editor of Lefty Blondie Press, an independent publisher promoting poetry by self-identifying women and non-binary poets.

Torli Bush is a poet from Webster Springs, WV. They hold a MFA in Creative Writing from West Virginia Wesleyan College. Torli is currently a poetry editor for Heartwood Literary Magazine. Their first collection, Requiem for A Redbird, is available from Pulley Press.