Join us as we kick off the 2025 Winter Festival of Poetry, The Winter Festival of Poetry, a program of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, is Wisconsin's longest continuously running poetry program of its size. Hosted by poet James P. Roberts, this 8-week series features six poets each week, reading for roughly 10 minutes each. The series runs from January 19 to March 9. The theme this year is PASSPORT TO POETRY, celebrating places we'd prefer to be, especially in the winter!

Schedule:

January 19, 2025
Steven Espada Dawson (Madison Poet Laureate)
Justin Festge Russell (Madison Youth Poet Laureate)
Shoshauna Shy
Marshall Begel
Marilyn L. Taylor
Breanna Grow

January 26, 2025
Sharon Rook Daly
Dominic Holt
Kimberly A. Blanchette
Kristian Iliev
Amanda Reavey
Rusty Russell

February 2, 2025

Martha Kaplan
Jeanne Tomasko
Marilyn Annucci
Andrew Yim
Guy Thorvaldsen
Janet Stutz

February 9, 2025
Katrin Talbot
Isaiah Janisch
Sara Perrell
Charles Edward Payne
Cristina Norcross
Joseph Lutz

Each week will have a sub-theme and will feature fun facts about our "travel" destinations. For more information, contact James P. Roberts at [email protected]  or call 608-242-7340.The Winter Festival of Poetry is supported by Mystery To Me, White Hawk Press, Avol's Books, WORT FM, American Family Insurance & Colleen Frentzel, Dennis Collier, Fran and Louis Rall, Robin Chapman, Gillian Nevers, A Place To Be, Apollo Poetry, Katrin Talbot, Kimberly A. Blanchette, Lisa Marie Brodsky, Donna Carnes, Christopher Chambers, Ron Czerwien, Sharon Daly, Araceli Esparza, Cristin Jacque, Martha Kaplan, Dana Maya, Andrea Musher, Sara Parrell, Andrea Potos, Jo Scheder, Carrie Voigt Schonhoff, Lynn Patrick Smith, Marilyn L. Taylor, Guy Thorvaldsen, Olga Trubetskoy, Jodi Vander Molen, Tim Walsh, and Beth Ann Workmaster.

Date: January 19 - February 9, 2025

Time: 2 PM

Location:
Arts + Literature Laboratory
111 S. Livingston Street #100, Madison, Wisconsin, 53703.

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