We are now accepting applications for attendance at the 2019 festival workshops. Please visit our Faculty and Workshops page to see the full offerings from our faculty, which includes: Ellen Bass, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Stuart Dischell, Aracelis Girmay, Campbell McGrath, Gregory Pardlo and Eleanor Wilner. Applications open June 15, 2018 and will be accepted through the deadline November 12, 2018. Apply online using Submittable or download a 2019_Application pdf to apply by mail. Read more >
The Palm Beach Poetry Festival invites all Palm Beach County High School Students to send in one original poem. The winner will receive $200 and a pair of tickets to the Friday night Reading Event featuring Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet, Tyehimba Jess The four runners up will each receive $100 and a pair of tickets to Friday night Reading Event All winners receive a one-year subscription to Poets and Writers Literary Journal All of the prize-winning poems will be posted on the festival website: palmbeachpoetryfestival.org and will be included in press releases Prize winners will be invited to participate in … Read more >
Join us October 17th us for a round-robin poetry reading in the beautiful Green Cay Wetlands Nature Preserve. We will spend a lovely afternoon reading poetry informally around the circle in the Green Cay Club House Community Room. Please bring up to four poems (favorites, or your own) to share with the group. Non-poets are welcome to join us, we love and audience! *Please bring a light wrap or jacket as the room may be cold. **Please be prompt as we will start to read at 1:00 pm. Read more >
Love has been the motivation for writing poems from the earliest known poets to poets writing today. There probably isn’t a poet who hasn’t written a love poem. Through close analysis workshop participants will examine the use of poetic techniques in selected poems and try their hand at writing a love poem. Bio: Sarah Brown Weitzman, a past National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in Poetry and Pushcart Prize nominee, is published in hundreds of journals and anthologies including The New Ohio Review, The North American Review, The Bellingham Review, Rattle, Mid-American Review, Poet Lore, Slant, and Miramar. She was … Read more >
Cara Nusinov will show PoJo Collage participants how to combine collage, poetry, and journaling to create mixed media art. Participants will design their own collage cover art, generate writing in their personal journals/notebooks, and draft poems inspired by their own words. Participants should bring the following supplies: a notebook/journal for writing, a favorite photograph of themselves (at any age), 8-10 small magazine images, scissors, glue (Elmer’s or a stick), and any other desired materials to incorporate into their collages. Certified in art journaling, Cara Nusinov facilitates workshops of self-discovery and expressive thought to help her participants to connect, … Read more >
Participants should bring up to four poems, original or not, to share with the group. Non-poets are welcome to attend. Read more >
Spread the joy of poetry and music at this special holiday event, where attendees will share their favorite holiday poems and songs of the season. All ages welcome. Read more >
Participants will learn the basics of the Japanese literary form of haiku and haibun, which is a combination of prose and haiku. Participants will look at a brief history of the haibun and examine various examples, with a focus on the work of haiku master Kobyahsi Issa. Workshop participants will learn about the history of the forms, examine various examples, past and present, and then head to Morikami’s beautiful gardens to generate their own haiku and haibun. Participants need to bring a pen and writing pad, snippets of prose, dreams, found poems, journal entries, observations, memories, or a few lines from their own … Read more >
Participants will learn the basics of the Japanese literary form of haiku and haibun, which is a combination of prose and haiku. Participants will look at a brief history of the haibun and examine various examples, with a focus on the work of haiku master Kobyahsi Issa. Workshop participants will learn about the history of the forms, examine various examples, past and present, and then head to Morikami’s beautiful gardens to generate their own haiku and haibun. Participants need to bring a pen and writing pad, snippets of prose, dreams, found poems, journal entries, observations, memories, or a few lines from their own … Read more >
Registration packets will be made available to workshop faculty, participants and auditors for pick up. Read more >
