Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway

Registration for the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway
January 17-20, 2025
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Seaview Hotel, Atlantic City area

Getaway Reads: “Face to Face” by Anndee Hochman

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This entry is part of Getaway Reads, a weekly e-mail series curated by Stephanie Cawley that features the writing of the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway faculty.     Face to Face: Loss and Homecoming at the 25th Reunion by Anndee Hochman   I didn't expect to cry after just two hours on the Old Campus. Then again, I had few expectations for my 25th college reunion. For the previous four months, thoughts of returning to New Haven had been eclipsed by a more urgent matter: the rapidly declining health of my 77-year-old ... Read More...

Getaway Reads: Two Poems by Stephen Dunn

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This entry is part of Getaway Reads, a weekly e-mail series curated by Stephanie Cawley that features the writing of the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway faculty.     The Imagined by Stephen Dunn If the imagined woman makes the real woman seem bare-boned, hardly existent, lacking in gracefulness and intellect and pulchritude, and if you come to realize the imagined woman can only satisfy your imagination, whereas the real woman with all her limitations can often make you feel good, how, in spite of knowing this, does the imagined ... Read More...

Getaway Reads: “The Book of Roger” by Richard K. Weems

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This entry is part of Getaway Reads, a weekly e-mail series curated by Stephanie Cawley that features the writing of the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway faculty.     The Book of Roger by Richard K. Weems Of course, near this tale’s end, the Book of Roger—that nar­ra­tive of third per­son lim­ited omniscience—is suf­fer­ing an unex­pected twist, isn’t it, Roger? Thus far, the tale of hard­work­ing, bring-home-the-bacon Roger and his dar­ling, quiet Rhonda, who expe­ri­enced loss and more than their fair share of tur­bu­lent times in their ... Read More...

Getaway Reads: “The Ripple in Your Day” & Prose by Douglas Goetsch

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The Ripple in Your Day by Douglas Goetsch I’d like to pull back the hair from your face and ask how you get through the ripple in your day, the one that comes unannounced like a feral animal sitting on the lawn facing your windows—you’d think you’d be used to it by now. It stays maybe a minute, maybe an hour, and doesn’t go away until it does. Do you settle into your favorite chair with the universal remote, spend an hour in the shower, bury your head in crosswords, sleep in your clothes? Do you buy crap on eBay, Google people from your old ... Read More...

Getaway Reads: Bulldog by Paul Lisicky

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Bulldog By Paul Lisicky The bulldog kept the woman alive, but the woman didn’t know that. She had other problems on her mind, such as where did she put her keys, and what was her car doing in Florida when she’d parked it in Tennessee? The bulldog got very still when the woman started shoving her fingers into bowls. He figured he could make the earth spin a little slower if he were sitting on its axis, so he’d quiet his panting. He’d look straight ahead, neither left nor right. The woman would trip on him, wince at him for being in her way, then lean down ... Read More...

A hurricane-inspired writing prompt

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"...Love, if you love me, lie next to me. Be for me, like rain..." From “The Rain” by Robert Creeley Writing Prompt Drive a storm into a poem that explores a devastating romantic relationship, current or past. Requirements Begin with a line or two of pure description of Hurricane Sandy or its aftermath. Argue for or against one of Dr. Phil’s "Ten Relationship Myths." Tell a secret, tell a lie and never tell anyone which is which. Surprise yourself! Fiction Alternative Write a dialogue-driven story about a chance encounter between two ... Read More...

How “true” is your fiction?

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I have a journalist friend who does not read novels. "Why should I waste my time," he told me, "reading about something that never happened. "I've heard this before. Over my 30 years teaching literature to high school students, I always had a few who mistakenly believed that fiction is "fake." Having them read works like Of Mice and Men, The Sun Also Rises and Romeo and Juliet helped convert them, but there were those students that would not succumb to my charms. No matter what they read, they would not allow what Coleridge described as the "willing ... Read More...

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