2022 Poets and Scholars Summer Writing Retreat Schedule of Events

Please refer to this page for the most up-to-date Retreat Schedule

Program Schedule

PLEASE NOTE: This is the public program schedule page containing general information for the retreat.

To access any of the talk and workshop campus locations, and in order to register for any of the workshops or to watch the recorded lectures, please apply to be an auditor.

Please note: we are not accepting participants at this time. If you have already applied and been accepted, please refer to the program schedule which was emailed to you for more retreat information. If you have any questions, please email: isgrjcamden@oq.rutgers.edu

Apply to be an Auditor

Monday, July 11 | Orientation

8:00 am	Delivery of Daily Newsletter (Asynchronous)
11:00 am	Registration – Campus Center Main Entrance
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm	Orientation Lunch (watch the recording here*) and Campus tour
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm	Keynote: Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens (Register here)

*Orientation is required for all participants and auditors. This will be an open forum to ask questions. If you would like to apply to be an auditor (we are not accepting applications for participants at this time), please click on the link at the top of this page to apply.

Tuesday, July 12

8:00 am	Delivery of Newsletter
10:00 am – 12:00 pm	Workshop A
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm	Lunch
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm	Workshop B
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm	Film Session (Register here)

Wednesday, July 13

8:00 am	Delivery of Daily Newsletter
10:00 am – 12:00 pm	Workshop A
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm	Lunch
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm	Workshop B
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm	Linda Villarosa in conversation with Samiya Bashir (Register here)

Thursday, July 14

8:00 am	Delivery of Daily Newsletter
	Jenna Le Ruth Madievsky
10:00 am – 12:00 pm	Workshop A
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm	Lunch
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm	Workshop B
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm	Airea Matthews in conversation with Gregory Pardlo (Register here)

Friday, July 15

8:00 am	Delivery of Daily Newsletter
	Podcast
10:00 am – 12:00 pm	Workshop A
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm	Lunch
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm	Workshop B
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm	Jean Jacques – Yoga session

Saturday, July 16

8:00 am	Delivery of Daily Newsletter
	Kimberly Mutcherson Reproductive Rights, Sex and Sexuality
10:00 am – 12:00 pm	Workshop A
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm	Lunch
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm	Workshop B
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm	Suzanne Kim in conversation with Kimberly Mutcherson (Register here)

Sunday, July 17

5:00 pm – 7:00pm

Group Dinner

Monday, July 18

8:00 am	Delivery of Daily Newsletter
	Cynthia Dewi Oka
10:00 am – 12:00 pm	Workshop A
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm	Lunch
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm	Workshop B
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm	Jessica Calvanico in conversation with Cynthia Dewi Oka (Register here)

Tuesday, July 19

8:00 am	Delivery of Newsletter
	Heidi Andrea Rhodes and Tala Khanmalek
10:00 am – 12:00 pm	Workshop A
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm	Lunch
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm	Workshop B
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm	Keith Green in conversation with Heidi Andrea Rhodes and Tala Khanmalek - Online only (Register here)

Wednesday, July 20

08:00 am	Daily Newsletter
10:00 am – 12:00 pm	Workshop A )
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm	Lunch
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm	Workshop B
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm	Open Mic

Thursday, July 21

08:00am	Daily Newsletter
10:00 am - 12:00 pm	Workshop A
12:00 - 2:00 pm	Lunch
2:00 - 4:00 pm	Workshop B
6:00 - 7:00 pm	A Conversation with the leaders of the Black Bodies Black Health Research Project* (Register here)

*Black Bodies, Black Health is a one-year research project led by Rutgers University professors Anna Branch (Sociology) and Michelle Stephens (English and Latino and Caribbean Studies), supported by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and using interdisciplinary research to explore and unpack structural racism in service of creating equitable health outcomes.