Community Outreach
Thursday, January 13th, 2022 11:00am - 1:00pm

Participants will learn the basics of the Japanese literary form of senryu, the lighthearted cousin of haiku. Consisting of three lines of approximately 17 syllables, the senryu focuses on humans and human emotions, the good and the bad, from a humorous perspective. Following the workshop, in which participants will learn about the history of the senryu and haiku, they will examine and discuss various examples before touring the Morikami’s beautiful gardens to generate their own senryu. Yaddyra Peralta, MFA, is the former Assistant Director of the Palm Beach Poetry Festival. Her works have appeared in Sliver of Stone, Ploughshares, Jai-alai, Abe’s Penny, Tigertail, The New … Read more >

Thursday, October 15th, 2020 - Tuesday, December 1st, 2020

The 17th Annual Virtual 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 virtual Friday night reading event featuring Poet At Large Brian Turner The four runners up will each receive $100 and a pair of tickets to the virtual 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 … Read more >

Tuesday, May 12th, 2020 1:00pm - 3:00pm

  Open-Mic Round Robin Poetry Reading Participants should bring up to four poems, original or not, to share with the group. Nonpoets are welcome. FREE Read more >

Monday, April 6th, 2020 7:00pm - 9:00pm

The Wife   After nearly 40 years of marriage, Joan and Joe Castleman (Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce) are complements. Where Joe is casual, Joan is elegant. Where Joe is vain, Joan is self-effacing. And where Joe enjoys his very public role as Great American Novelist, Joan pours her considerable intellect, grace, charm, and diplomacy into the private role of Great Man’s Wife. Joe is about to be awarded the Nobel Prize for his acclaimed and prolific body of work. Joe’s literary star has blazed since he and Joan first met in the late 1950s. The Wife interweaves the story of … Read more >

Tuesday, February 18th, 2020 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Open-Mic Round Robin Poetry Reading Participants should bring up to four poems, original or not, to share with the group. Nonpoets are welcome. Read more >

Monday, December 2nd, 2019 - Friday, February 28th, 2020

The Palm Beach Poetry Festival invites you to submit an original poem inspired by the Art Couture Exhibition at Old School Square’s Cornell Art Museum. Five cash prizes and five honorable mentions will be selected by contest judge, Stephen Gibson. First Prize: $100.00; Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth Prizes: 4 awards of $25.00 each; Five Honorable Mentions. Entries that win cash prizes will be published in the May issue of South Florida Poetry Journal, while all top 10 poems will be published online and announced in press releases. The works in Art Couture: The Intersection of Fashion and Art focus on … Read more >

Saturday, November 2nd, 2019 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Stacie M. Kiner will facilitate her workshop: With Nothing to Regret, Nothing to Wish Reversed, as Walt Whitman beseeched, it is time to pay homage to lights that still shine—from John Donne to Elizabeth Bishop, James Wright to Anne Sexton, the 17th Century through the 20th; let’s leave Auden’s The Age of Anxiety at the door—and sing the body electric.       Read more >

Thursday, October 17th, 2019 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Open-Mic Round Robin Poetry Reading Participants should bring up to four poems, original or not, to share with the group. Nonpoets are welcome. Read more >

Tuesday, October 15th, 2019 - Sunday, December 1st, 2019

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 2018 NAACP Image Award Winner and Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award recipient, Patricia Smith 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 … Read more >

Saturday, October 5th, 2019 1:00pm - 3:00pm

  This workshop will focus on reading examples of poetry that convey a strong sense of wonder about the world. Through generative writing exercises, participants will use a tool box of poetic devices: images, syntax, tone, rhyming, repetition, form, etc. to find their own wondrous moments in their poems. This workshop aims to explore how we use poetry as a vehicle of meaning and self-discovery. Guillermo Cancio-Bello is a poet and psychotherapist living in Miami. He has an MS in Counseling from Barry University, and is a director of The November Institute.     Read more >