Call for Submissions!

Calling all you poets! 

The Midwest Writing Center seeks poems: send us your battle cries and your prayers. 

Make us want to go out and fight another day. 

Give us a balm for our wounds. 

Poetry is medicine, so share some of yours with the people!

Selected poems will appear on this here blog, to be curated by The Midwest Writing Center’s 2013 Collins Writer in Residence, Aubrey Ryan.

We're accepting poems immediately and excitedly. 

Send 'em our way at medicinefortherevolution@gmail.com

The 2013 Collins poet-in-residence is Aubrey Ryan

Aubrey Ryan has been selected to serve as the 2013 Collins poet-in-residence for the Midwest Writing Center. Her poems have appeared in Best New Poets, Anti-, Phantom Limb, Quarterly West, Squat Birth Journal, DIAGRAM, Cellpoems, Pebble Lake Review, and The Iowa Midwives Association's "Born at Home" Calendar. She was also the winner of a Tupelo Press Poetry Project award, and the 2012 Booth Poetry Award. Aubrey serves as poetry editor at Sundog Lit and runs a (very) fledgling broadside press. She lives in Iowa with her sweet husband and sweet kid.

Collins 2013 poet-in-residence
Aubrey Ryan

During the poetry residency that begins in October, Aubrey will facilitate poetry workshops, a community poetry reading, and a poetry ezine. Through the residency, she will encourage community-based poets who are developing their craft outside of a formal academic setting, and to provide a forum to showcase their work through the residency’s online poetry journal and a public reading of their poems. She will also release a limited edition broadside of one of her poems produced by illustrator, Alex Iaccarino. The biannual Collins Poetry Residency is sponsored by 918studio of LeClaire.