2013 AWP Conference & Book Fair
2013 AWP Conference & Book Fair
Academic Year:
2012 - 2013 (June 1, 2012 through May 31, 2013)
Funding Requested:
$1,516.00
Project Dates:
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Applicant(s):
Overview of the Project:
I'm requesting a grant to help fund my trip to the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference in Boston. The conference, which runs from March 6-10, 2013, will further my professional development in several key ways. First, my press (The Waywiser Press, with offices in London and Baltimore) will have a table at the conference, and the press's editors have asked me to be available for a book-signing and a poetry reading. (My poetry collection, Shuffle and Breakdown, was published by Waywiser in the fall of 2008.) Second, I plan to attend a number of panels that will encourage me to investigate both my practice (as a poet) and my pedagogy (as a Lecturer). Third, I'll have a chance to establish (or strengthen) ties with other poets and educators with whom I share interests. I've attended the AWP Conference the past several years, and I've found it to be wonderfully invigorating. A Lecturers' Professional Development Grant would be a boon and a blessing.