Poetry will bring us together once again for the 8th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival, January 16-21, 2012! Tickets to all festival events are on sale now. You may order tickets online, (subject to handling charges) or call or visit the Crest Theatre Box Office: 51 North Swinton Avenue, Delray Beach, FL 33444; 561-243-7922, extension 1. Tickets are on sale now.
In partnership with Old School Square Cultural Arts Center, in the heart of Delray Beach, Florida, the festival features six days of reading events, craft lectures, and poetry workshops, with some of the most extraordinary and engaging poets in America. Featured poets include: Kim Addonizio, Cornelius Eady, Claudia Emerson, David Kirby, Thomas Lux, Gregory Orr, Chase Twichell, and Eleanor Wilner.
See the Upcoming Festival page for full biographies of faculty and featured poets, and the schedule. We promise you an experience you will never forget!
THE FESTIVAL IN THE NEWS!
Palm Beach Daily News - Feature by Jan Sjostrom
Palm Beach Arts & Culture Magazine, Fall 2011, see pages 28-30
The Palm Beach Poetry Festival is generously sponsored by Morgan Stanley, Smith Barney, the Windler Group of Morgan Stanley, Smith Barney’s Atlanta Office, the Palm Beach County Cultural Council and the Board of Commissioners of Palm Beach County, The Palm Beach Post, WXEL TV & FM, and Murder on the Beach, Delray Beach’s independent bookseller. All events take place in the Crest Theatre and Vintage Gymnasium of Old School Square in Delray Beach. The 7th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival was underwritten, in part, by an Arts Challenge Grant in 2010 from The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. For its support, we are eternally grateful.
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