News and Announcements

As we near the end of National Poetry month, here are some resources to keep you reading and writing poetry all year long.

There is so much to explore during Poetry Month and all year long at Poets.org.

The Sustainable Arts Foundation is a non-profit foundation supporting artists and writers with families. The Foundation launched a two-year pilot program to support residencies interested in making their programs more accessible to parent artists and writers.

An elegant monthly platform for notable authors who are also parents to present new creative work…

Tuesday, February 12 7pm Andaz Wall Street second floor 75 Wall, NYC Free   The Pen Parentis Literary Salon brings an exciting new literary venue to the very heart of the Financial District! The public is welcomed at these intimate events held on the second Tuesday of each month, September thru May. Join us for a drink […]

Show your support by midnight, November 13.

The National PTA’s grant program will award a minimum of $500, and up to $5,000, to PTAs in good standing in areas impacted by Superstorm Sandy.

Pen Parentis, New York City’s literary salon for writers who are parents, is hoping to open a branch in Los Angeles. Want to help? Vote for this idea via Good Maker. For seven successful seasons, Pen Parentis has held free, open literary salons in NYC where amazing authors like Jennifer Egan read from new works […]

Former United States Poet Laureate Billy Collins (2001-2003) created Poetry 180, a program for making poetry an active part of the daily experiences of American high school students. Poetry 180 offers one poem for each day of the 180-day school year. Check out one of his lists of poems here and the two anthologies he […]

Pen Parentis is now accepting applications for its 2012 Writing Fellow. Entry: $25 Deadline: April 18th, 2012 One winning author will be showcased for one year on the website as the “Pen Parentis Writing Fellow,” a new emergent author worthy of notice. The Fellow will receive a public showcase of the winning new work in […]

The Motherhood Initiative, formerly The Association for Research on Mothering, and Demeter Press–the first and still only feminist association, journal and press focused on motherhood–is engaged in a 2012 membership drive. From founder and director, Andrea O’Reilly: “We have just learned that we have been approved for publishing grants from the Canadian Government for long-term […]