Join us for the sixth week of the 2024 Winter Festival of Poetry on Sunday, February 25, 2024 at 2 PM. The Winter Festival of Poetry, a program of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, is Wisconsin's longest continuously running poetry program of its size. Hosted by poet James P. Roberts, this 8-week series features six poets each week, reading for roughly 10-12 minutes each. This series runs from January 21 to March 10. The theme this year is UNDER THE BIG TOP, celebrating the history of the circus.
This week's readers are:
- Joe Lutz
- Olga Trubetskoy
- F. J. Bergmann
- Brenda Lempp
- Kimberly A. Blanchette
- J. Zachary Rothstein
Each week will have a sub-theme and will feature fun facts about the circus. For more information, contact James P. Roberts at JRob52162@aol.com or call 608-242-7340.
The Winter Festival of Poetry is supported by Mystery To Me, White Hawk Press, Avol's Books, WORT FM, American Family Insurance & Colleen Frentzel, Dennis Collier, Fran and Louis Rall, Robin Chapman, Gillian Nevers, A Place To Be, Apollo Poetry, Katrin Talbot, Kimberly A. Blanchette, Lisa Marie Brodsky, Donna Carnes, Christopher Chambers, Ron Czerwien, Sharon Daly, Araceli Esparza, Cristin Jacque, Martha Kaplan, Dana Maya, Andrea Musher, Sara Parrell, Andrea Potos, Jo Scheder, Carrie Voigt Schonhoff, Lynn Patrick Smith, Marilyn L. Taylor, Guy Thorvaldsen, Olga Trubetskoy, Jodi Vander Molen, Tim Walsh, and Beth Ann Workmaster.