J. Bailey Hutchinson chats with John LaPine, attendee of the 2018 Open Mouth Poetry Retreat, about process, editing, and caterpillar sex. 🐛🐛🐛

John LaPine has an MA in Creative Writing & Pedagogy from Northern Michigan University (NMU), and volunteered as Associate Editor of creative nonfiction & poetry at Passages North, NMU's literary journal, for three years. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in: Foliate Oak Literary Journal, Rhythm & Bones, The Rising Phoenix Review, yell/shout/scream, Hot Metal Bridge, Glint Literary Journal, Apofenie,The /Temz/ Review, Petrichor: A Journal of Text & Image, Glass: A Journal of Poetry's "Poets Resist" series, & Midwestern Gothic. He is a "Best of the Net" nominee for 2018, editor of the podcast Queer Americans, and currently teaches English at Butte College. For more info, visit johnlapine.wordpress.com.

Read a full, finalized version of LaPine's poem here: https://www.thetemzreview.com/john-lapine.html

Thanks to John Burcham Erwin of At Home Pictures (https://www.athomepictures.com/) for our theme song!

Retreat 2018: John LaPine

Molly Bess Rector and J. Bailey Hutchinson sit down with Hanif Abdurraqib and Eloisa Amezcua, faculty at the 2018 Open Mouth Poetry Retreat, and Geffrey Davis, creative writing faculty at the University of Arkansas Fayetteville. 🌟🌟🌟

Thanks to John Burcham Erwin of At Home Pictures (https://www.athomepictures.com/) for our theme song!

Retreat 2018: Hanif Abdurraqib, Eloisa Amezcua, & Geffrey Davis

J. Bailey Hutchinson chats with p.e. garcia, attendee of the 2018 Open Mouth Poetry Retreat, about poetic revision, Lorca, and St. Sebastian. 🌌🌌🌌

Thanks to John Burcham Erwin of At Home Pictures (https://www.athomepictures.com/) for our theme song!

Retreat 2018: p.e. garcia

Molly Bess Rector and J. Bailey Hutchinson chat with Aidan Forster, attendee of the 2018 Open Mouth Poetry Retreat, about poetry, sensuality, and Britney Spears. 👸👸👸

Thanks to John Burcham Erwin of At Home Pictures (https://www.athomepictures.com/) for our theme song!

Retreat 2018: Aidan Forster

J. Bailey Hutchinson chats with Juliane Tran, attendee of the 2018 Open Mouth Poetry Retreat, on poetics and time-effective masturbation techniques (which, let's be honest, are kind of the same thing, right?). 💕💕💕

Retreat 2018: Juliane Tran

Open Mouth Reading Series is a community-based poetry series located in Fayetteville, Arkansas, co-curated by poets M. D. Myers, Molly Bess Rector, Peter Mason, and J. Bailey Hutchinson.

​We host a monthly reading featuring one* poet whose work we love. The featured reading is preceded by readings from roughly ten members of our community, who read a single poem each in rapid succession.

We also host an annual fall festival, workshops, and a summer poetry retreat featuring visiting faculty.
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We're a federal 501(c)(3) non-profit, and all funds we raise go toward additional programming and toward paying readers.

Thank you to John Burcham Erwin of At Home Pictures (https://www.athomepictures.com/) for the use of our theme song!