Sunday, September 10th, 10:30 a.m.
Markham House, History Park San José
635 Phelan Avenue, San José
FREE! For tickets visit Eventbrite
The 9th Annual San José Poetry Festival presents our annual Small Press Fair featuring readings from Los Lorcas, Derrick Brown and more!
This is Day Three of our four-day festival! Check out the complete list of events that are part of the 9th Annual San José Poetry Festival! Our festival pass will get you into all live events and online events.
Admission is free to the public.
Come tour our headquarters at Markham House and bask under the shaded books and wears by publishers from around California. Listen to the poetry of some of our headliners and stick around for a writing workshop with Yesika Salgado at the end of the fair!
Our growing list of tabling presses:
Yuki Teikei Haiku Society
La Raiz Magazine
Somos en Escrito
Flash Fiction Forum
Mumbler's Press
Caesura
Swan Scythe Press
Ocote Libre Press
Write Bloody Publishing
Conocimientos Press
Want more poetry? Check out the rest of the San José Poetry Festival lineup.
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COVID NOTICE: If a venue cancels, the San José Poetry Festival event will be broadcast to PCSJ’s Zoom channel. All ticket holders will receive a link to the Zoom. Refund requests for unattended individual events moved online due to a venue cancellation will be reviewed and considered.
San José Poetry Festival 2023 is presented by Poetry Center San José and is sponsored in part by: Festival and Cultural Affairs grants from the City of San José; a grant from SVCreates, in partnership with the County of Santa Clara and the California Arts Council and also supported in part by a SVCreates National Endowment for the Arts American Rescue Plan grant; support from the offices of San José City Council Members David Cohen (D4) and Peter Ortiz (D5); Literary Arts Emergency Fund supported by the Mellon Foundation; and with support from Anne & Mark's Art Party, Applied Materials Foundation, Brandenburg Family Foundation and Silicon Valley Community Foundation. We thank Four Points by Sheraton for hotel accommodations. We would like to acknowledge and offer our deepest gratitude to past and current venues worthy of your support: Art Boutiki, Books Inc., Caravan Lounge, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library, First Unitarian Church of San José, History/San José, MACLA, Mama Kin, Recycle Bookstore, Tabard Theatre, Willow Glen Public Library and Works/San José. Please support these spaces however you can. And we thank all our volunteers whose time and effort make this festival possible.