Need to get away for awhile? Try the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
The Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship is one that falls through the cracks sometimes at it’s deadline of October 15th, and not as many people seem to know about it, as should. So here’s what the deal is: Poets who want to live abroad as some sort of writing fodder, for an entire year (costing in the ball park of $49,000) should apply for this scholarship. Past Lowell Scholars are Nick Flynn, Robert Bly, Phillis Levin, Galway Kinnell, Edward Hirsch, and even Stanley Kunitz (in 1954). To apply you send either a published work and 20 pages of recent work, or if you haven’t published a book, up to 40 pages, as well as a simple application, including a brief travel synopsis. I’m applying, anyone else?