Poetry
Provided below is a list of all Collingswood Book Festival poetry events . Also available is a downloadable and printable PDF of all festival events this year. Please note that the event schedule is subject to change as necessary.
Writing for Survival: A Workshop - Thursday, September 30 from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
Workshop Leaders: Shawn R. Jones and Jade Jones
How do you find the courage to speak after you are used to being silenced? Trauma, sickness, grief, and even people can keep us from sharing our stories.
Using generative writing prompts, we will examine poetry and fiction techniques like language and characterization.
In this supportive workshop environment, we will create space for all levels of writers.
Each of us has our own valuable story to tell and now our next step is to write it.
Mother/daughter writers Shawn R. Jones and Jade Jones will lead this free, virtual writing workshop from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 30.
RSVP to collingswoodpoetrytent@gmail.com and then join us here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85861218964?pwd=aDhwZkZwZXp3NFVSV3dyZ0NOTWsyZz09
Saturday, October 2
Location: Tent 6 - Haddon and Washington Avenues, Collingswood, NJ
10:00 a.m. — Walt Howat Youth Poetry Contest winners - a reading and awards ceremony hosted by Anna Evans
10:45 a.m. — Haiku Wake-Up Call hosted by Nick Virgilio Haiku Association
11:00 a.m. — Camden Mighty Writers - young writers share favorite poems
11:30 a.m. — A Tribute to Paul-Victor Winters, hosted by BJ Ward
11:45 a.m. — Willingboro's Todd Evans shares poems from "A Rose for Ruby''
12:00 p.m. — Pittsburgh to Palisades: A reading by Brett Rutherford
12:30 p.m. — Peter Murphy Writing: Past, Present and Future - A reading by Peter Murphy, Stephanie Cawley, and Emari DiGiorgio
1:00 p.m. — A reading by South Jersey poet and teacher Shawn R. Jones
1:30 p.m. — Edison Literary Review: A tribute to its founders on the occasion of its 20th and final annual issue
2:15 p.m. — The Night Heron Barks: A reading by recent contributors hosted by founding editor Rogan Kelly
3:00 p.m. — A reading by award-winning Collingswood poet Cynthia Dewi Oka
3:30 p.m. — Open Mic hosted by Slush Pile, the podcast companion of Painted Bride Quarterly, and host Kathleen Volk-Miller
Throughout the day: Wall of Haiku, Write the Town Poem, Haiku Interludes, book signings, and meet the poets.
View bios of our participating poets.