Through our Special Events page, students, faculty, and the lager SUNY Poly community can find opportunities to come together to interact and engage in lively discussions. WCC special events focus on our students’ intellectual growth, but we also aim to provide cultural opportunities that will bring the student body together. These opportunities are always, naturally, extended to faculty and staff as they become part of our student’s development in ways they may not have imagined.
Spring 2024 Special Events
National Poetry Month Celebration
During April, National Poetry Month (NaPoMo), the WCC will proudly host Mobile, Alabama's Inaugural Poet Laureate, Charlotte Pence when she conducts a poetry lecture/workshop and headlines our inaugural NaPoMo reading in the Gannett Gallery at SUNY Poly.
Charlotte is an accomplished poet coming to us from the University of South Alabama, and among her many achievements, her newest book, Code, has received the 2020 Book of the Year from Alabama State Poetry Society. As Charlotte fuses science and art in her acclaimed work, she offers an excellent foray for SUNY Poly to explore the linkages and relationships that exist between the sciences and the arts.
Charlotte will conduct a poetry lecture/writing workshop on April 10th from 1 pm to 3 pm with a reception and refreshments at 6 pm. Charlotte will also read selections from her most recent work Code as well as other collections, and afterward, beginning at 8:30 pm, we will hear from readers selected through our call for submissions (see below).
Registration for Charlotte’s workshop is FREE, but will be limited to 35, and is a first come, first-served basis, so register early! Registration begins February 5th, 2024, with the link below.
Free Poetry Writing Workshops
As part of our National Poetry Month celebration, the WCC will also host FREE weekly poetry writing workshops to help SUNY Poly students shape, invent, or develop their poetry or flash fiction works.
We hope some of our SUNY Poly students and their submissions to our NaPoMo call (below, right) will be selected to read following Charlotte Pence’s formal reading on April 10th.
Attend these weekly workshops to get ideas for new work or to help you refine works-in-progress. We will offer lectures, readings, and prompts for your creative explorations.
Seeking Poetry/Flash Fiction Submissions
Who: SUNY Poly and MVCC seek poetry and flash fiction submissions for their inaugural poetry reading. Poets whose work is deemed exemplary will be offered an opportunity to read their works at our Poetry reading on April 10th, 2024, in the Gannett Gallery following our guest, poet, Charlotte Pence.
What: We seek ONLY student works for our contest, and we cannot consider previously published works, including those posted online. We will only accept single submissions of no more than two pages in length.
Where: Send your submissions to wccas@sunypoly.edu with subject heading “2024 WCC Submission.” Please submit works with no identifiable markings.
When: Submissions will be accepted between Feb 1st through March 13th, 2024. Poets selected for our reading will be notified via e-mail by April 3rd, 2024.
We look forward to reading your works!
