Click here to buy your ticket for Rachel’s workshop. (Not included with Festival Pass)

This is Day Four of our four-day festival! Check out the complete list of events that are part of the 10th Annual San José Poetry Festival! Our festival pass will get you into all live events and online events.

$30 for general public and $20 for PCSJ Members and youth 19 and under. Admission may be purchased at the door.

Parking is available at the end of Phelan Avenue, just past the park entrance.

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This writing workshop is facilitated by Rachel McKibbens. It will follow the Small Press Fair and Open Mic.

Workshop title: The Cracked Mirror

Workshop Description: In this writing workshop we will examine the magic and uncertainty of memory, exploring strategies that permit our voices to wild away from the "order" of things. Through fragmented images, erasures, kennings, and bent language, we will generate texts subverting linear narrative, presenting our stories how our bodies received them.

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Rachel McKibbens is a two-time New York Foundation for the Arts poetry fellow and author of three critically-acclaimed books of poetry, blud, Pink Elephant and Into the Dark & Emptying Field. In 2012, McKibbens founded The Pink Door Writing Retreat, an annual writing intensive held exclusively for non-men writers of color.

Ploughshares recently called McKibbens “the witchy folk hero of the disenfranchised.” For over two decades, she has taught poetry to the outcasts, misfits and witches of the world while raising five children. In 2022, Mckibbens was the subject of the podcast We Were Three, from The New York Times and the creators of Serial.

She is currently writing a romance novel and believes Palestine will be free in this lifetime. rachelmckibbens.com

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