Stonecoast at San Miguel Poetry Week

Each January, students enrolled in the Stonecoast MFA program have the opportunity to participate in Stonecoast at San Miguel Poetry Week in the extraordinary and inspiring city of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.  Any student in the program who meets the qualifications to enroll in a workshop in poetry (whether through having originally been accepted in poetry, or through having a current poetry faculty member certify that their poetry is ready) is eligible to participate in this poetry-only program. 

Students in Stonecoast at San Miguel will participate in an intensive and inspiring seven-day program, including morning workshops, afternoon lecture/discussion classes on literature, evening readings, and a special two-day intensive on Rhythms of Poetry.  

Previous faculty at San Miguel Poetry Week have included Marjorie Agosín, Simon Armitage, Anthony Barnstone, Willis Barnstone Alfred Corn, Mark Doty, Stephen Dunn, Cornelius Eady, Forrest Gander, Reginald Gibbons, Kathy Graber, Linda Gregg, Kirsty Gunn, Robert Hass, David Harsent ,Tony Hoagland, Marie Howe, Michael Hulse, X.J. Kennedy, Carolyn Kizer, Yusef Komunyakaa, Paul Lisicky, Glyn Maxwell, Richard Maxwell, Eric McHenry, Sandra McPherson, Christopher Merrill, W.S. Merwin, Stanley Moss, Paul Muldoon, Ruth Padel, Walter Pavlich, Robert Phillips, Francine Ringold, Jerome Rothenberg, Alastair Reid, David St. Tomaz Salamun, John, Grace Schulman, Owen Sheers, Naomi Shihab Nye, W.D. Snodgrass, Matthew Sweeney, Leslie Ullman, Reetika Vazirani, C.K. Williams, C.D. Wright, Carolyne Wright, and Robert Wrigley.

Each residency will also include a Stonecoast poetry faculty member who will teach the Rhythms of Poetry intensive. Stonecoast at San Miguel students will choose their mentor preferences for the following semester from the full roster of Stonecoast faculty.

Watch a video about San Miguel Poetry Week, "My San Miguel Allende Poetry Week" by Lois P. Jones.

For more information about The San Miguel Poetry Week visit http://www.sanmiguelpoetry.com