Poetry Walk 2025

Calling All Poets!

The RWU University Library and the Writing Center are hosting the 3rd annual outdoor Poetry Walk to celebrate National Poetry Month in April 2025.  All members of the campus community—students, faculty, staff, administrators—are encouraged to submit poems for display. 

Bringing together students, faculty, and the RWU community, the Campus Poetry Walk will include:

• An outdoor walking route through campus that exhibits original poetry by RWU students, faculty, staff, and alumni  
• A Community Event & Reception, featuring Keynote Speaker Elisa Gonzalez, will be held on Thursday April 3 at 5:00 pm in the Mary Tefft White Cultural Center, University Library 
• A virtual exhibition that preserves and highlights the Campus Poetry Walk 

Submission Guidelines:

• Poems must be unpublished, original works
• Poems should be appropriate for all ages to enjoy
• One submission per individual

Theme: "The Corner of Lost and Found"

Sometimes in life we lose things, but we also find new things. Poems can explore what it means to lose things in life and/or find the new. There are interesting paths to explore about the serendipity of the tw forces. Losing and finding can also be a cycle--they can forge a connection between the past, the present, and the future. Your poems can explore any place along the cycle.

Poems due: February 10 - March 5, 2025.

Questions? Contact Karen Bilotti at kbilotti@rwu.edu for more information.

Celebration Reading will be with award-winning poet Elisa Gonzalez on Thursday April 3, 2025. 

The Poetry Walk is sponsored by The Center for Student Academic Success and the University Library. The Keynote Address is sponsored by the Mary Tefft White Talking in the Library Endowment Fund.