2026 Conference Schedule

Poems reward patience. Reading one deepens with time. Writing one may take weeks, months; publishing even longer. Yet poets feel intense pressure to rush—deadlines, professional reviews, a hyperactive scrutiny on social media. Our panel considers the paradox of colliding tempos, relating poetry the art to poetry the career. (Is it a career?) We offer professional guidance, publishing strategies, and our own testimony in examining how we read, how we write, how we work alone and in community.