Below you'll find the complete guide to everything Poetry at Lit Fest 2022, including craft seminars and readings from headliners Jericho Brown, Victoria Chang, and Edward Hirsch. Choose intensives, seminars, and events á la carte or sign up for one of our festival passes for the full experience.
Two-Weekend Intensives
Two-weekend intensives take place the weekends of June 10-11 and June 18-19
- Two-Weekend Intensive: Poem as Spiritual Autobiography (Zoom) with Elizabeth Robinson (afternoon)
Craft Seminars
To view all of the Lit Fest craft seminars, visit this page.
Friday, June 10
Morning
- The Body Electric (Denver)* with Leslie Jamison
- Real People, Real Problems (Denver)* with Erika Krouse
Afternoon
- Contemporary Visual Poetry (Zoom) with Toby Altman
- Stop Making Sense: The Unconscious Necessity of Writing (Denver) with BK Loren
Saturday, June 11
Morning
- There Is No Other Way to Say This: On “Finding Something” and The Thing That Can’t Not Be Said (Denver) with Peter Markus
- Writing the Erotic (Denver) with Courtney E. Morgan
Early Evening
- On Writing through the Lens of Not, Don’t, No (Denver) with Peter Markus
Sunday, June 12
Afternoon
- Be the Tree: Persona Poems (Zoom) with Abigail Chabitnoy
- Creating Art in Dark Times (Denver) with R. Alan Brooks
- Place-Based Writing in the Time of Climate Change (Denver)* with Rachel Walker
- Writing About Love Without Blushing (Zoom) with Alyse Knorr
- Writing the Body (Zoom) with Karen Auvinen
Early Evening
- Contemporary American Women Poets (Denver) with Lynn Wagner
Monday, June 13
Morning
- Beginning Again (Zoom) with Cass Eddington
Afternoon
- The Poem as a Single Sentence (Zoom) with Elizabeth Robinson
- Reading and Writing Displacement (Zoom) with Poupeh Missaghi
Early Evening
- Building the Writer's Notebook (Denver) with Jenny Shank
- The Aesthetic (Zoom) with Sarah Elizabeth Schantz
Tuesday, June 14
Morning
- Let’s Learn Writing from Translators (Zoom) with Poupeh Missaghi
- Online Privacy for Writers (Zoom) with Erika Krouse
Afternoon
- Creating Emotion, Avoiding Melodrama (Denver) with Paula Younger
- Pronoun Play (Zoom) with Elizabeth Robinson
- Writing the Hard Stuff (Denver) with Erika Krouse
- Writing Wrongs (Zoom) with Ellen Blum Barish
Wednesday, June 15
Afternoon
- Choose Your Words (Denver) with Erika Krouse
- Prompt Party (Denver) with Joy Roulier Sawyer
- “Words, words, words!”: Poems About Language (Denver) with Nicky Beer
Early Evening
- Getting Published: Stories, Essays, Articles, and Books (Denver) with Jenny Shank
- Hauntings and Divinations: Writing the Haunted Past and Flickering Future (Zoom) with Hillary Leftwich
- Syntax in Poems: Exploring Parataxis, Hypotaxis, and Inverted Syntax (Denver) with Victoria Chang
Thursday, June 16
Afternoon
- Cut-Up and Remix (Denver) with Teow Lim Goh
- How to Break (Zoom) with Abigail Chabitnoy
- Poetic Grief (Denver) with Edward Hirsch
Early Evening
- Maintaining a Consistent Writing Practice (Denver) with Steven Dunn and Suzi Q. Smith
Friday, June 17
Afternoon
- Difficult Personas (Denver) with Teow Lim Goh
- Performance Art and Writing (Denver) with Andrea Rexilius
- Promptapalooza: The Most Fun You'll Have Doing Writing Exercises EVER (Denver) with Emily Rapp Black
- Show Don't Tell: Privileging the Reader's Experience (Denver) with Sarah Elizabeth Schantz
Early Evening
- Meta that Matters (Denver)* with Jennifer Wortman
- Poems as Teachers (Denver) with Lynn Wagner
Saturday, June 18
Morning
- An Intro to Speculative Poetry (Denver) with André O. Hoilette
- Muscle Memory: When Writing Goes on Autopilot and How We Can Jumpstart Our Writing (Denver) with Hillary Leftwich
- Unfortunately, This Piece Isn’t For Us: Dealing With Literary Rejection (Denver)* with Liz Breazeale
Afternoon
- Pandemic Lit (Zoom) with David J. Rothman
- Narrative Poetry: Telling Your Story Through Poetry (Zoom) with Jodie E. Hollander
- Sounds + Visions: How We Work Together (Zoom) with Maw Shein Win
Business Panels
Business panels take place every day from 12:00pm-1:00pm
Friday, June 10
Saturday, June 11
Sunday, June 12
Monday, June 13
Tuesday, June 14
- Lunchtime Business Panel: Story of a Book (Denver) and on Zoom with Vauhini Vara
Wednesday, June 15
Thursday, June 16
Friday, June 17
Saturday, June 18
Sunday, June 19
Evening Events
Friday, June 10
- Happy Hour Reading: An Uncertain Age Anthology Reading, 4:30-5:30pm
- “Turn the Page” with Ryan Warner and Erika Krouse, 5:30-7:00pm
- The Kickoff Party, 7:00-8:30pm
Saturday, June 11
- Happy Hour Reading: Writing in Color, 4:30-5:30pm
- Lit Fest at Night Reading: Faculty, 7:30-8:30pm
Sunday, June 12
- Happy Hour Reading: Faculty, 4:30-5:30pm
- Inspiration Tour, 6:00-7:00pm
Monday, June 13
- Happy Hour Reading: Lit Fest Fellows, 4:30-5:30pm
Tuesday, June 14
- Happy Hour Reading: Book Project Edition, 4:30-5:30pm
- Lit Fest at Night Reading: Lighthouse Faculty, 7:30-8:30pm
Wednesday, June 15
- Happy Hour Reading: Book Project Edition, 4:30-5:30pm
- Denver Noir Reading, 7:30-8:30pm
Thursday, June 16
- Happy Hour Reading: Queer Creatives, 4:30-5:30pm
- 25th Anniversary Gala, 6:00pm
Friday, June 17
- Happy Hour Reading: Faculty, 4:30-5:30pm
- Salon: Art Friends—The Pleasures and Perils of Writers’ Groups, 6:00-7:00pm
- Lit Fest at Night: Faculty, 7:15-8:15pm
Saturday, June 18
- Happy Hour Reading: Poetry Collective, 4:30-5:30pm
- Closing Party + Chris Ransick Celebration/Reading, 6:00pm
Visiting Author Readings
Saturday, June 11
Monday, June 13
- Visiting Authors Reading and Conversation: P. Carl, Dan Chaon, Alissa Nutting, Nadia Owusu, Laura van den Berg, 6:00-7:15pm
Tuesday, June 14
- Visiting Authors Reading and Conversation: Dean Bakopoulos, Victoria Chang, Melissa Febos, Ed Hirsch, 6:00-7:00pm
