Rockvale Writers' Colony, situated on Giles Hill Road in College Grove, Tennessee, positions this retreat as a deliberate inquiry into the conditions that sustain poetic practice rather than a conventional craft seminar. The program, titled 'Poetry in Practice: building a sustainable writing habit,' convenes over a weekend to interrogate a familiar injunction—write regularly—and to ask what that actually means for the poet. Across four workshops, participants will consider the distinctions between honing craft, developing voice, and constructing the supporting structures that make a creative life possible. The colony's decision to frame the retreat around practice itself, rather than product, signals an institutional interest in the long arc of an artist's development. The curriculum draws on the reflections of established poets, using their accounts of practice as primary texts for discussion. This is not a workshop oriented toward generating polished poems for immediate publication; it is a space for generative activity, optional sharing, and the drafting of a personal poetry practice. By the end of the retreat, each participant will have produced a draft—not of a poem, but of a plan for sustaining their own work. The inclusion of ceramics among the listed genres suggests an openness to cross-disciplinary thinking about ritual, material, and routine, though the primary discipline remains poetry. Rockvale's choice to offer this program at no application fee and to welcome writers of all types—those new to poetry as well as experienced poets seeking refreshment—reflects a curatorial vision that values access and reinvention over hierarchy. The retreat is designed for those who understand that a sustainable practice is not a matter of inspiration alone but of intentional design. It is an invitation to treat one's creative life as a subject worthy of serious attention.