Announcing the Recipients of the 2022-2023 WPR Creative Fellowship & Grant
The Woodberry Poetry Room is pleased to announce that the recipient of this year’s WPR Creative Fellowship is Jonah Mixon-Webster for his project “Promise/Threat.” He will receive a $4,500 honorarium and a one-week residency at the Eliot House in Gloucester, Massachusetts. It also gives us immense pleasure to announce that Will Dowd has been selected as the recipient of this year’s WPR Creative Grant for his project “Dreamfall.” He will receive a stipend of $2,000. The Poetry Room’s fellowship and grants program offers financial support and research assistance to poets, artists, and scholars interested in undertaking creative projects that would benefit from the resources available at the WPR archive, as well as from time spent at Harvard University as a whole. Past fellowship recipients have included Diana Khoi Nguyen & Jane Wong, Jared Stanley & Sameer Farooq, Sawako Nakayasu, Tracie Morris, Kate Colby, Dan Beachy-Quick, Erin Moure, Eileen Myles, and Fanny Howe. Past grant recipients have included: Harmony Holiday, Lindsay Turner, Tess Gallagher, and Tongo Eisen-Martin. About the Project: During his fellowship year, Mixon-Webster will work toward the …