We had several updates at Happy Hour this month, and, as promised, here they are…
Dialogue and the Memoir with Laura Kalpakian (online)

Can you possibly remember precisely what was said in the past? Does it matter? The memoir isn’t a vehicle for the author to testify in court. The memoir evokes the elusive past and animates the people in it. Dialogue in the memoir should convey the richness and ripple of these voices. Dialogue is artificial. Voice is authentic. How to use the artificial to convey the authentic? This class explores the answers, the content and portrayal of dialogue to help writers reveal character, develop tension and deepen their stories.
Date: (Online Class) May 15, 2022
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Building an Arc Into Your Poem with J.L. Wright (virtual classroom)
Dates: April 24, 2022, 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom Classroom 1
Registration Fee: $29.00
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Precision of Poetry with J.L. Wright (virtual classroom)
Dates: May 1, 2022, 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom Classroom 1
Registration Fee: $29.00
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Our call to submission went out with a reference to the William Carlos Williams’ poem Spring and All. Here is the poem in its entirety:
Spring and All
by William Carlos Williams
From the book Spring and All, published in 1923.
By the road to the contagious hospital under the surge of the blue mottled clouds driven from the northeast-a cold wind. Beyond, the waste of broad, muddy fields brown with dried weeds, standing and fallen patches of standing water the scattering of tall trees All along the road the reddish purplish, forked, upstanding, twiggy stuff of bushes and small trees with dead, brown leaves under them leafless vines— Lifeless in appearance, sluggish dazed spring approaches— They enter the new world naked, cold, uncertain of all save that they enter. All about them the cold, familiar wind— Now the grass, tomorrow the stiff curl of wildcarrot leaf One by one objects are defined— It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf But now the stark dignity of entrance—Still, the profound change has come upon them: rooted, they grip down and begin to awaken
For complete guidelines, click here.
Where can i find a copy of the call for submission for the new anthology?