Newport MFA craft talk with Charles Coe

Best-selling authors and award-winning writers will present guest readings and craft talks during a week-long winter workshop being hosted by Newport MFA, Salve's master of fine arts in creative writing program. All events are free and open to the Salve Regina community as well as the general public, and anyone interested is encouraged to attend.

Charles Coe is the author of three books of poetry: "All Sins Forgiven: Poems for my Parents," "Picnic on the Moon" and "Memento Mori," all published by Leapfrog Press. He is also author of "Spin Cycles," a novella published by Gemma Media. Selected as a Boston Literary Light by the Associates of the Boston Public Library, Coe is a former artist fellow at the St. Botolph Club in Boston and a current artist in residence at the Manship Artists Residency in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He is an adjunct professor at Salve Regina and Bay Path University, teaching in both MFA writing programs. "Peach Pie, a short film by Roberto Mighty, was based on Coe's poem "Fortress" and has been shown at film festivals nationwide. Another short film, "Charles Coe: Man of Letters," also by Roberto Mighty, was named Outstanding Documentary Short at the 2020 Roxbury Film Festival. Coe was a 2017 artist in residence for the city of Boston, where he created an oral history project focused on residents of Mission Hill. He is poetry editor of "Multiplicity," an online literary journal published by Bay Path University, and associate editor of "About Place," an online literary journal published by Black Earth Institute. He serves on the steering committee of the Boston chapter of the National Writers Union, a labor union for freelance writers and editors.