Create. inspire. support.
The LOFT offers an ongoing venue of support for both developing and established writers. While the main focus is on the creation of new works, LOFT workshops encourage the exchange ideas on craft, publishing and other literary topics. Our members have received local and national recognition for their poetry and literary works -- a wonderful byproduct of our creative journey together.
Workshops
Stay engaged and creative with our virtual workshops via Zoom until the Covid threat is over. Ongoing workshops offer a welcoming and supportive environment for poets and writers to develop their craft and share new works in progress. Group size is limited to allow for effective feedback and discussion.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
LOFT friends and members: Feel free to SHARE your good news or upcoming event with us at: info@thepoetryloft.org
James Cronin's full length book, World of Shadows (Poetry Loft Press), is available for sale on Amazon.
Diana Cole's chapbook, Songs by Heart, is available to purchase from Iris Press.
Ira Schaeffer won the Loft Chapbook Award for Summer Drowning (Poetry Loft Press, 2015) judged by Jane Lunin Perel. Schaeffer won first place in the 2016 Galway Kinnell poetry contest sponsored by the Pawtucket Arts Panel for his poems "Basic Training" and "Walking the Steere Hill Preserve." Ira's poem "Primavera" was nominated for a Pushcast prize by The Poetry Loft in 2014.
Adele Bourne's book Tide Roaring In has been published by Kelsay Books, 2016. Available on Amazon.
Karen Haskell won second place for her poem in the 2015 Galway Kinnell poetry contest judged by RI State Poet Laureate Rick Benjamin, and Lisa Starr. Her chapbook, Sixty Years, was published by Finishing Line Press.
Judy Gamble's ekphrastic poetry has appeared in the Poetry and Art book published by the Wickford Art Association.
Beatrice Lazarus was honored to read from Lay Bare the Canvas, a New England Poetry and Art Anthology, (Beatrice Lazarus, editor; Poetry Loft Press) at the Longfellow House, Boston, hosted by the New England Poetry Club.
"Poets and Players" : A reading and book launch sponsored by The Poetry Loft to celebrate the publication of chapbooks by Karen Haskell (Sixty Years, Finishing Line Press) and Sandra Moran (Caught in the Open, Poetry Loft Press). Featuring a staged reading of Analgesia, (Ars Medica, University of Toronto Press) a one act play by James Celenza, at the William Hall Library, Cranston RI.
Sandra Moran's chapbook Caught in the Open, a finalist for the LOFT Chapbook Award, was published by the Poetry Loft Press, 2016. Caught in the Open is elegant and edgy, and Moran a master of poetic slippage as she explores the lives of the forgotten and disenfranschised, the violated and the vulnerable." ~Catherine Imbriglio, Brown University instructor.
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