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Off to the Write Start at the 2022 VA Festival of the Book

The Muse hosted the Moseley Writers Group for the second annual round of speed critiques as part of the Virginia Festival of the Book on Sunday, March 13th. This year, a record number of submissions was received, and the members of the Moseley Writers Group critiqued the first 100 words of the anonymous, unpublished manuscripts,…

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Changing the World, One Poem at a Time

What does it mean to be a poet today? Join The Muse and Virginia Poet Laureate Luisa A. Igloria for a three-part reading and conversation series featuring the 2021-2022 Virginia Young Poets in the Community. About the program: Virginia Poet Laureate Luisa A. Igloria and the Poetry Society of Virginia are pleased to announce the…

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Words Matter: Teen Poets on Poetry as a Tool for Survival

“These poems … remind us that when we are at the edge of any kind of precarity, all we have to consider is flight.” – Luisa A. Igloria, VA Poet Laureate, while hosting Words Matter. Our World Matters. On an unseasonably warm Sunday this December, eight youth poets joined The Muse for a virtual reading…

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Shoutouts and Celebrations: February 2022

This month’s exciting news from around the Muse community: The 2022 Muse Teen Fellows have been announced! Muse instructor Suzanne Rhodes was named Poet Laureate of Arkansas Longtime Muse student, volunteer, and instructor David Cascio’s debut novel FrogFlyer has been published Cover reveal for Muse instructor Erin Beatty’s upcoming novel Blood and Moonlight

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