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.
This event is free to the public!
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Our Small Press Fair invites over a dozen local and regional publishers, authors and poets to show off their books under a glorious oak tree, above the tree’s roots, below the Markham House windows, at the delightful History Park of San José, across from the Firehouse featuring readings from each table. We’ll have Rachel McKibbens and RC Weslowski perform short sets. You can also take a tour of the Naomi Clark Library and the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society room on the second floor of Markham House.
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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.
RC Weslowski is an award-winning poet and broadcaster/podcaster including the 2024 Hunna Bubba Prize. He’s also a workshop leader, clown and bon vivant. He has performed his poetry across Turtle Island and parts of Europe since 1998. RC is celebrating his 25th year of performing poetry by being at the San Jose Poetry Festival. His first collection of poetry My Soft Response to the Wars is available now from Write Bloody North Publishing writebloodynorth.ca
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