Announcing the Results of the 2024 Foster-Stahl Chapbook Series  

Thank you all for submitting your manuscripts to us for the Foster-Stahl Chapbook Series. We apologize for the delay in making this announcement, and we appreciate your patience. We are grateful to everyone who gave us the opportunity to read and consider their work. The excellence and range of the manuscripts we read made the selection process at once terrific and extremely difficult. 

What a Poem Wants: New Poetry Critique Group at MWC, facilitated by Ryan Collins  

The Midwest Writing Center is hosting a pay-what-you-can poetry critique group for “serious poets” — the next meeting is Wednesday, November 19 at 5:30 p.m. at their office in the Rock Island Public Library – Downtown branch. The group will be facilitated by poet and MWC Executive Director Ryan Collins.  

The group is open to poets who are actively working toward publishing their work and/or developing a new book or chapbook project, who have “a broad conception and appreciation of what a poem can be.” Collins said he hopes the group will be “an opportunity for poets writing adventurous work to engage and help each other find their poems’ most successful shapes.”