2013 Collins Poetry Residency - Now Accepting Applications

The Midwest Writing Center is currently seeking applications to be the 2013 Collins Poet-in-Residence.  The Collins Poetry Residency is established in honor of the Richard Collins family and their contributions to and encouragement of poets and poetry in the Iowa/Illinois Quad Cities and the Upper Mississippi River Valley.  The residency supports community-based poetry and a regional poet who has not yet published a full-length poetry collection and who resides in the six-county Quad City area (Rock Island, Henry, Mercer, Scott, Clinton, and Muscatine).  The residency is coordinated by the Midwest Writing Center and will take place over the month of October 2013.  Applications are being accepted January 1, 2013 through March 31, 2013.