"The Palm Beach Poetry Festival was simply one of the best, most fun, and best-run poetry conferences I've ever been to—a very high level of student writers was one special feature; to be among all those sweet people brought together in the spirit of poetry, in the miraculously soft Florida salt air, was a sweet and very satisfying experience. "—Tony Hoagland
"Anyone can see you run an excellent program and you deserve the national success it has attained." —Nick Carbo
"This was a lovely and thoughtfully worked-out event, absolutely exhilarating fo be part of. I didn't want to delay any longer in thanking you for putting on such an outstanding festival/workshop and for including me in it. To you, Miles and Mimi, and all who made it such a great success, my gratitude and my warmest congratulations."—Jane Hirshfield
"What a perfectly organized conference, what truly superb readings, what a wonderful, warm and kind faculty....This is--by far--the best conference I ever particpated in....I loved the students, loved the whole ambience, all at once relaxed, but immensely motivating, in-depth and stimulating." —Laure-Anne Bosselaar
"Altogether a wonderful experience...In only your second year, you've managed to put yourself on the conference map in America." —Kurt Brown
"WHATTA festival!!! Applause must be ringing in your ears!” —Muriel Weinstein, Great Neck, NY
"A rewarding experience.” — Caroline Glen, Surfers Paradise, Australia
"The ‘big names’ delivered.” —Shelby Allen, Boston, MA
