Workshop Opportunity with Award-Winning Poets
Chelsea Rathburn and James Davis May are teaching a
poetry workshop on Saturday, February 21, 10 am – 1pm, at Young
Harris College in Young Harris, GA. The widely published poets, who happen to be married, are both
assistant professors of English and creative writing at Young Harris College.
The workshop is geared to intermediate to advanced
poets, and the fee is $20 per person.
Reservations are on a first-come/first-served basis. Send your check, payable to Rosemary Royston, POB 694, Young Harris,
GA, 30582, along with your name, address, and email. The class will be held on the campus of Young
Harris College. Once
registration is received, further details will be provided.
Rathburn is author of two full-length poetry
collections, A Raft of Grief,
published by Autumn House Press in 2013,
and The Shifting Line, winner of the
2005 Richard Wilbur Award. Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic, Poetry, The New Republic, The Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, and New England Review, and her prose has appeared in Creative Nonfiction. In 2009, she
received a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
May's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Five Points, The Missouri Review, New
England Review, New Ohio Review, The New Republic, Pleiades, Rattle, The
Southern Review and elsewhere. The former editor of New South, he has received scholarships from The Sewanee Writers’
Conference, Inprint, and the Krakow Poetry Seminar. In 2013, he won the Collins
Award from Birmingham Poetry Review.
For more information, please contact Rosemary Royston at
706.897.6667 or rosemary28rr@gmail.com .
When the two poets read at Writers' Night Out last year, they were well-received and we were urged to have them teach a workshop. Here in our mountains, we are fortunate to have poets of their quality available for classes.