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The Hampton Roads
Poetry Calendar
Your guide to When & Where all the poetry is happening. |
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Annual Events & Celebrations |
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The Chesapeake Poetry Fest |
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The Russell Memorial Library on Taylor Road in western Chesapeake hosts an annual poetry celebration featuring Thursday evening readings by two nationally-known poets who then spend Friday in Chesapeake Public Schools classrooms. A Friday night open-mic coffee house at the library concludes this oasis in the depths of cold, wet Winter. |
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Tidewater Community College |
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hosts an annual week-long Spring poetry festival with talks, panel discussions, workshops and readings at each of its 4 campuses in Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Virginia Beach. Rich with regional and national talent. |
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Christopher Newport University |
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welcomes Spring the first week in April with an intense weekend of talks, pannel discussions, readings and workshops. This a high-power weekend is a MUST. Don't let it get away. Click here for more, or check the website for more information: http://lifelonglearning.cne.edu |
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Gaia Fest/Earth Day |
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Look for events popping up all over the Hampton Roads community in Virginia Beach, Williamsburg, Newport News, Norfolk... Celebrate the sacredness of Life and the Earth, regardless of your religious points of view. |
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AFRAM FESTIVAL |
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This intense week-end of celebration of African culture and roots takes place at Town Point Park downtown Norfolk. It includes live music, art, displays, and a SLAM. |
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HOPE HOUSE SLAM |
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is a significant fund-raiser for Hope House, a support facility for people who need some extra help in a place of their own to live with some degree of independence and dignity. The SLAM is an opportunity to help out and to celebrate with those who seek and edserve an alternative to communal living on someone else's terms. |
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JUNETEENTH |
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Born of emancipatioon, this event celebrates African heritage in two days of music, poetry, and art on the downtown campus of Tidewater Community College. |
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The Poetry Society of Virginia |
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hosts a popular late May weekend of poetry wrapping the Hampton Roads Arts Festival. Held in historic Williamsburg in and around the William & Mary campus, this event welcomes the community to this event that is too easy to overlook simply because it is 'up the road too far.' It's fun and rewarding - don't miss it. |
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4th of JULY Poetry Freedom Read |
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In the shadow of the Armada Hoffler tower, at the Virginia Beach Town Center Plaza we poets gather to celebrate liberty by reading poetry and selected passages from the core documents of our proud heritage. We start at 9:30 and read until about 10:45 a.m. to leave everyone the rest of the day to enjoy other festivities and the beach and fireworks. And we don't read past 11 because the sun just gets too beastly hot about then. |
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the Old Dominion UniversityLiterary Festival |
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This week-long literary extravaganza welcomes October every year highlighted by a Thursday evening talk by a leading writer of our time. The last few years such authors have included Richard Rodrigues (Hunger of Memory, Days of Obligation, Brown, and other titles), Susan Sontag (), and Dr Earnest Gaines (A Lesson Before Dying, A Gathering of Old Men, Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, and others) |
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Annual Memorial Reading
in remembrance of the atomic bombing of
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Held in the Memorial Garden of the Chrysler Museum of Art
in Norfolk
click here for photos of the reading August 6, 2006 |
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One Love Festival
A World Peace Interfaith Music & Arts Extravaganza |
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Mission Statement: Although conflict distracts us, humanity longs for a way to reconcile our differences. As we approach the anniversary of September 11, 2001, we put our hands and hearts together to work toward a planet restored and a community united in hope.
We seek common ground as we of diverse faiths, backgrounds and ages gather to plan, stage, perform and enjoy the One Love Festival each year as a beginning toward demonstrating a model of unity in diversity, removing barriers, opening a way toward understanding, cultivating new friendships and fostering a closer interfaith community. |
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CHESAPEAKE BAY POETS |
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release the newest edition of SKIPPING STONES, their annual anthology of regional poetry, photography, and art at a Saturday afternoon reception at the Russell Memorial Library in western Chesapeake in late September-mid October. |
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South Eastern Region Poetry Society of Virginia Fall Poetry Fest |
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This annual poetry fest at the Virginia Beach Central Library features a significant guest speaker and a themed program and an open-mic reading. The Fest is offered open to the public to support and encourage poets to share their craft with each other and the community as well as to invite poets to become members of the Poetry Society of VA. |
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Go to Monthly & weekly events, or
Return to the home page, or
Visit the Poetry Map of Hampton Roads |
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