Poetry Readings and Workshops

Name: Poetry Readings and Workshops
Start: 2024-10-05T10:00:00-04:00
Location: 771 Haddon Ave., Collingswood, NJ, United States, New Jersey 08108

Schedule

Sat Oct 05 2024 at 10:00 am

UTC-04:00

Location

771 Haddon Ave., Collingswood, NJ, United States, New Jersey 08108 | Collingswood, NJ

FREE! (Tent #6/7) Haddon Ave. at Washington Ave.
Poetry Events
10 a.m.: Walt Howat Memorial Youth Poetry Competition winners
Children’s reading hosted by contest judge and South Jersey poet Anna Evans
10:40 a.m.: Poetry Out Loud regional winners
Teen poetry reading hosted by former Poetry Out Loud winner & Collingswood poet Lauren Hilger
11 a.m.: Town Book Author Phillip B. Williams
Award-winning poet and novelist, author of “Ours’’ and “Mutiny,’’ and the poetry collection “Thief in the Interior’’
11:25 a.m.: Anna Evans
Hainesport poet, professor and publisher from Burlington County reads from latest work
11:45 a.m.: Elinor Mattern
Collingswood poet, workshop leader reading new and favorite works
Noon: Midnight Poetry at Noon hosted by Reet Starwind
Camden poet offers sampler of poems written in Midnight Poetry workshop series
12:30 p.m.: Haiku for Lunch hosted by Nick Virgilio Haiku Association
Discussion and reading focused on haiku/short form poems for healing featuring former program director Sean Lynch
12:50: Helen Lanier
Pitman poet, essayist and Rowan faculty member reading
1:05: Peter Murphy
Ventor poet, memoirist, teacher and founder of Murphy Writing reading
1:20 p.m.: Jin Cordaro
Jackson poet and Stockton University professor reading
1:35 p.m.: Grant Clauser
Landsdale, PA, poet, fly fisherman and editor for NYT’s Wirecutter reading
1:50 p.m.: We Remember: A poetry remembrance hosted by Cassie MacDonald
Group reading in honor of poets we lost last year, in the tradition of the Mexican ofrenda
2:15 p.m.: Baseball poetry, hosted by BJ Ward
Hunterdon County poet, professor, workshop leader celebrates our National Pastime
2:35 p.m.: Marcia LeBeau
Essex County poet Marcia LeBeau reading from her new collection
2:50 p.m.: Ophelia Hostetter
Collingswood poet and Rutgers-Camden professor of medieval literature sharing hip-hop poetics and other elements into thousand-year-old verse
3:05 p.m.: Karen ‘’Magic Fingaz’’ Smith
Philadelphia poet, playwright and percussionist performing favorite works
3:30 p.m.: Open Mic with Kathleen Volk Miller
Sign up to share your poem, hosted by the Slush Pile podcast/Painted Bride Quarterly

ALL DAY: Wall of Haiku, Refrigerator Magnet Poetry, Town Poem Interactive, Guerrilla Poetry Mural

WORKSHOP TENT (Located on Haddon Ave. across from Washington Ave. Main Poetry Tent)
10 a.m.: Found Poetry Workshop
Workshop leader Poet Nancy Reddy of Stockton University
11 a.m.: Exploring Sound in Poetry
Workshop leader Ophelia Hostetter, Collingswood poet and Rutgers-Camden professor of medieval literature
Noon: How to Get Published
Round table discussion facilitated by publishers/editors and poets
1 p.m.: Developing an Attitude of Gratitude
Workshop leader Kathleen Volk Miller, essayist, poet, Drexel University professor, co-editor of Painted Bride Quarterly and co-host of the Slush Pile podcast
Gratitude has been scientifically proven to improve both physical and psychological health. Learn how to get the most out of your gratitude journaling practice, or how and why you should begin one.
2 p.m.: Poetry Workshop
Workshop leader Elinor Mattern, Collingswood poet and visual artist
Metaphors in Magenta and Mulberry
Conjure a poem vivid with color, sensory detail, and original zing!
https://www.collingswoodbookfestival.com/author/poets