A few years ago, Teresa Carson had an idea. What if a few far-flung poet friends met regularly on Zoom, maybe to talk about books, maybe to share writing prompts, maybe just to spend unstructured time together? She invited Jeanne Marie Beaumont and Dawn Potter to join her experiment, and Poetry Lab came into being.
Now the three of us meet once a month to discuss shared reading projects, new poem drafts, teaching and publishing experiences, museum exhibitions, aging . . . whatever strikes our fancy. As we’ve become more comfortable in this realm, both our conversations and our drafts have become richer and more entwined.
Poetry Lab Notes is a collaborative Substack journal that will revisit some of our conversations, share writing prompts we’ve used together, and publish small sheafs of poems we’ve written under one another’s influence. It will likely include recordings, photos, links to exhibits, discussions of our other projects, and features on artists and thinkers who are affecting our own trajectory in some way.
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