In celebration of National Poetry Month, the Broadleaf Writers Association is proud to welcome three phenomenal poets for Write Now: The Poetry of Place!

Join us on Thursday, April 22, at 7pm ET via Zoom as poets Andrea Jurjevic, Donney Rose, and Olatunde Osinaike come together to break down their processes for writing poems and then getting them published – both in print journals and online – including the crafting and pitching of their own chapbooks and larger collections of poems.

We'll also be discussing the topic of “The Poetry of Place” in consideration of Covid’s shelter-in-place requirements, not being able to travel, and having strong ties to another city/country that differs from where we currently live and write.

Finally, we'll have each poet read a sample of his/her poetry that’s relevant to the topic at hand so we can experience the greatness of their work directly from them.

A clickable link for this program can be found in the description, or you can simply copy and paste https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82045729490 into your browser.

We encourage you to purchase copies of our speaker from the Broadleaf Writers Bookshop page. Proceeds from your purchase go directly to Broadleaf Writers and Independent bookstores! Support the writing and bookselling communities!

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ANDREA JURJEVIC was born and raised in the Croatian port town of Rijeka, in former Yugoslavia. Her debut collection, Small Crimes, won the 2015 Philip Levine Poetry Prize, and her book-length translations from Croatian include Mamasafari (Diálogos Press, 2018) and Dead Letter Office (The Word Works, 2020). Her chapbook Nightcall, selected for the ACME Surrealist Poetry Series, is forthcoming from Willow Springs Books. (www.andreajurjevic.com)

DONNEY ROSE is a poet, essayist, teaching artist and community advocate from Baton Rouge, La, currently residing in Hyattsville, MD. He is a Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Fellow and the Chief Content Editor at The North Star Media Group. Donney is married, with two cats. (www.donneyrosepoetry.com)

Originally from the West Side of Chicago, OLATUNDE OSINAIKE is a Nigerian-American poet and software developer. He is the author of the chapbooks Speech Therapy, a winner in the Atlas Review’s 2019 Chapbook Series, and The New Knew (Thirty West). His first full-length collection was selected as a finalist for the 2021 Alice James Award. (www.olatundeosinaike.com)