The Summer Writers Institute Poetry Workshop welcomes poets at all stages of development, writing in all styles: formal or free-verse, lyric or narrative. The instructor for 2009 was Kerri Webster, Visiting Writer-in-Residence at Washington University.  Click here for faculty bio.

If you are applying to the Poetry Workshop: Click here for the Summer Writers Institute application form (available in Feb. 2010).

Enclose your completed application form, a $35 check for the application fee, and 10 unpublished poems which are typewritten in a standard typeface, one poem per page. Please put your name on each page. This material will be read and workshopped by your instructor and class during the first week of the Institute. 

• -Your writing sample should be work in progress -- writings for
  which you are seeking reader responses and suggestions for improvement.
• -Checks should be made out to Washington University.
• -Application deadline is May 1, 2010.
• -Address your envelope to:

Summer Writers Institute
Attention: Erin Presson
Campus Box 1085
Washington University
1 Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130