Winter Poetry Festival

Warm your soul during the darkest days of winter at the first Winter Poetry Fest! We are crafting this event to be an inspirational refuge from the chaos of the holiday season. It will be full of diverse, local poets, chapbooks and broadsides for sale their authors; writing workshops and readings. In addition, there will be hands-on activities, writing games, a holiday card print-pull, cut-up poetry button making and more!

Buy last minute holiday gifts for all your artsy friends while directly supporting writers, hide from your in-laws, feed your creativity with writing prompts and games, feed your mouth with delicious snacks, write a poem to put on the Poetry Tree and celebrate the solstice with your creative family <3. Hosted by the Independent Publishing Resource Center.

Vendors and performers: Jon Boisvert, Bri. G, Angelica Brown, John Sibley Williams, Skyler Reed, Shannon Jones, Neil Aitken, Thick in the Throat, Honey (Claudia F. Saleeby Savage and John C. Savage), Jennifer Dawson, Bella, Rebecca Smolen, Laura (Lo) Houlberg, Missy Ladygo, Julia Laxer, Stephanie Strange, Julia Gaskill, Igor Brezhnev, Andrew Glackin, David Rutiezer, Jessica Mehta, Meghan Bell, Sage Lilac, Nathan Tompkins, Laedi Monte.

Workshops:
Friday (21st), at IPRC:
6:30 – 8:30 pm: Reading to Write Poetry by John Miller

Saturday (22nd), at IPRC:
10 – 11 am: Hip-Hop & Spoken Word: A Guide to Self-Care by Mike Firm
11 am – 12 pm: Healing the Fractures: Writing from Deep Experience by Neil Aitken
1 – 2:30 pm: Visibility and Book Sales: Marketing Your Small Press Poetry Book by John Sibley Williams
2:30 – 4 pm: Poetry for Dreamers: Exploring Myth & Archetype As We Uncover Ourselves by Julia Laxer
4 – 5 pm: Improv Rules for Writers: 3 Simple Rules Making More, Better, Faster, Writing by Skyler Reed
5 – 6 pm: Music Your Work New! by Claudia Saleeby Savage & John C. Savage

[see the official Winter Poetry Festival website]

[see also IPRC’s website]

[and the Facebook event page]