Poetry & Hybrid Consultations with Kristina Marie Darling
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Kristina Marie Darling is the author of over thirty volumes of poetry, essays, and fiction. An expert consultant with the United States Fulbright Commission and a twice-awarded Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Darling’s work has also been recognized with three residencies at Yaddo, where she has held the Martha Walsh Pulver Residency for a Poet and the Howard Moss Residency in Poetry, a 2024 Villa Lena Foundation Fellowship, a 2024 Civita Institute Fellowship, and eleven juried residencies at the American Academy in Rome. Dr. Darling has taught at Yale University, the American University in Rome, Stanford University, where she leads a workshop in professional empowerment through their Continuing Studies Division, the New School, the University of Cyprus, The Los Angeles Review of Books Publishing Workshop, Cedar Crest College’s Pan-European M.F.A. Program, and Webster University’s Geneva, Switzerland Campus, where she leads a biannual writing workshop for diplomats. She will serve as Visiting Researcher at Universidade do Porto and Visiting Fellow at the European Law and Governance School in Spring 2025, as well as Visiting Faculty at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid for the 2025-2026 academic year. She has served on juries for the Fulbright Specialist Award, the Corporation of Yaddo’s artist-in-residence program, the literature fellowship program at Millay Colony for the Arts, the Helene B. Wurlitzer Foundation’s artist-in-residence program, and many other awards in the United States and abroad. Born and raised in the American Midwest, she now divides her time between Greece, Rome, and the Amalfi Coast.
Kristina is accepting everything from individual poems to full-length collections. The fees and parameters for each of these categories are as follows:
- Single poem or hybrid piece of up to 2 pages: $25
- Folio of five poems/short hybrid work of up to 7 pages: $55
- Chapbook of up to 40 pages: $275
- Manuscript of up to 80 pages: $425
- Manuscript of up to 200 pages: $625
Kristina will provide detailed comments on your manuscript as well as a cover letter. After receiving these files, participants who submit chapbooks and full-length manuscripts may also book phone/video conferences with Kristina at no additional charge.
All manuscripts should be formatted in 12-point font. The deadline to submit work for this consultation program is May 31. Kristina will complete her work and respond to all participants by June 30.
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Kristina Marie Darling's Statement of Purpose
Most of my work as a teacher and an editor attempts to expand what is possible within received forms of writing. For many writers, the question of genre is inherently a question of power. These beliefs about what texts are legible, what texts are considered legitimate, reflect larger structures of authority in the literary community and in the academy. Poet and critic Sarah Vap writes, “I am extremely interested in what is often called hybrid or conceptual within the outstandingly elastic abilities of poetry-- these efforts that pose a challenge to the categories of writing (scholarship, journalism, coding, etc.), asking them to also expand their abilities and considerations and concerns and ways. To democratize.” What Vap is suggesting is that dismantling the categories of writing is a larger ontological and metaphysical challenge to the social order – it calls into question the values and hierarchies that we impose upon language. So when she’s saying that hybridity is a democratization, this is what she means. Hybridity – placing disparate forms and or types of language in conversation – is a way of challenging rules but also the people and institutions in power who make those rules. When working with writers, I welcome unruly texts, unclassifiable texts, the innovative and the experimental. After all, a new message -- and a challenge to the status quo -- often requires new forms of discourse.