Poetry Retreat Planned for Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum in November

09/08/2025

JONESBORO - The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center (HPMEC) will host a poetry workshop on Saturday, Nov. 8. The museum is located at 1913 Museum Row in Piggott.

The event will honor novelist Ernest Hemingway who spent nearly a decade writing and living in Piggott at the site of HPMEC.

"The retreat offers writers the opportunity to work on personal creative writing, share their work, receive feedback, and interact with others interested in writing," said Shannon Williams, director of HPMC.

The cost for the retreat is $35 for members of HPMC and $40 for non-members.

"The retreat is structured to be interactive and a time when friendships are formed, craft is honed, and creativity is enhanced," Williams added.

The retreat is a one-day event that will start at 10 a.m. Participants will spend the morning writing short poems, using old-fashioned rhyme and rhythm, followed by a provided lunch. From 12:30 until 4 p.m. authors will work on composition of poems and collaborate with other attendees. A complimentary tour of HPMC will follow.

Those interested in attending may reach out to Williams at [email protected] or call 870-598-1637.

The typewriter in the barn at the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center.