2025 STA PoetFest - Day Three of Three
Schedule
Sat Apr 12 2025 at 09:00 am to 05:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
50 Sevilla Street, Saint Augustine, FL, United States, Florida 32084 | Saint Augustine, FL
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Saturday, April 12, 2024Day Three of Three
9 AM – 5 PM
Flagler College campus
The festival continues during the day with a student showcase and a faculty panel, tabling by St. John County Book Mobile, the PoetFest Book Bazaar, dramatic play reading, and author talks and panels at the historic downtown campus of Flagler College. Events conclude in the afternoon with an awards ceremony for the winners of the St. Johns Cultural Council Haiku Contest, followed by a reception.
Registration, Book Bazaar, and Festival Contact Center
9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Ringhaver Student Center, 1st Floor, located at 50 Sevilla Street
Featuring author recordings and publications, as well as displays by FLARE: The Flagler Review (Flagler College).
Typewriter Poets
11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Ringhaver Student Center, 1st Floor, located at 50 Sevilla Street
Become captivated by the allure of pounding typewriters keys. Poets will compose poems on the spot with their vintage typewriters.
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Virginia Room
Located Flagler College's Ringhaver Student Center
Second Floor
50 Sevilla Street
St. Augustine, FL 32084
9:45 am to 10:50 pm Virginia Room
Live staged reading of “Happier Than Madness” by Philip Butera.
Featuring actress H.D. Eggleston. Presented by Rising Tide Productions.
11:00 am to 11:50 am Virginia Room
Flagler College English Department
Featured Flagler College Students
Indigo Carter, Marissa Kempf, Annella Rizzuto, Jaden Rudd
12:00 pm to 12:50 Virginia Room
Panel: Poets + Artists as Educators
Inspired by recent interviews for the FSPA Journal Of Poets and Poetry, this is a panel with mini-presentations and an interactive session with Poet-Educators and Artist-Educators. Moderator: Nikki Fragala Barnes (Poet/UCF)
Panelists: Vidhu Agarawal (Poet/Rollins), Tamara J. Madison (Poet/Valencia), Laura Mongiovi (Artist/Flagler), Jacob Z. Wan (Artist/UNF)
1:00 pm to 1:50 pm Virginia Room
"More Snakes Than People: Southern Gothic Florida Poetry"
Many see Southern Gothic literature as just recalling the "bad old days." This is not the case. There are still those places in Florida where you get hookworms by walking barefoot after an afternoon thunderstorm.
Poets: Ma Bones, Nick Dunkenstein, Cheri Eagerton Royal, Damon Thomas
2:00 pm to 2:50 pm Virginia Room
Traveling Poet Presentation by Tom Murphy,
Poet Laureate Corpus Christi (2021-2022), Texas
3:00 pm to 4:30 pm Virginia Room
Closing Event
Words from Festival Chair Chris Bodor
Florida Beat Poet Laureate (2023-2025)
Words from Norma Sherry
Past City of St. Augustine Poet Laureate
Presentation by Ann Browning Masters,
Present City of St. Augustine Poet Laureate
3:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Presentation by St. Johns Cultural Council
“Winners of 5th Annual Haiku Contest”.
Followed by Celebratory Reception on the Tinlin Landing
2nd Floor lobby
Ringhaver Student Center
50 Sevilla Street
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Where is it happening?
50 Sevilla Street, Saint Augustine, FL, United States, Florida 32084Event Location & Nearby Stays:
