Listen and converse with established poets as they focus in on a variety of areas in the crafting of poery. Topics include poems/poets that shaped how they think about poetry, how they consider aesthetic issues and the composition of their own poetry, and/or the use of poetic techniques in their own and/or others' poems. Question and answer to follow talk and all are invited.

Sarah Ann Winn’s first full length poetry collection, Alma Almanac (Barrow Street, 2017), was selected by Elaine Equi as the winner of the Barrow Street Book Prize. She is the author of five chapbooks, the most recent of which is Exhibition Catalog Pamphlet to the Grimm Forest Open Air Museum (Yellow Flag, 2018). Her poems, prose, and hybrid works have appeared in Five Points, Kenyon Review Online, Massachusetts Review, Smartish Pace and Tupelo Quarterly, among others. She has been the grateful recipient of residencies and fellowships, most recently from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Inner Loop's Arcadia Residency at Woodlawn Plantation and Frank Lloyd Wright Pope Leighy House. She serves the reviews editor for Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and teaches writing workshops in Northern Virginia and at the Art Institute of Washington. Visit her at http://bluebirdwords.com or follow her @blueaisling.