Houston Poetry Fest 2011

Houston's oldest poetry festival, celebrating it's 26th Anniversary!

HOUSTON POETRY FEST 2011

October 7, 8, & 9

at

Willow Street Pump Station

of the University of Houston – Downtown,

811 North San Jacinto

in downtown Houston, Texas

* Poetry “Out of Bounds” Reading

Oct 1 - Webster Barnes & Noble -

Full Handout as magazine or PDF  

"Once a year, in October,

Poets and lovers of poetry

Gather together at UH-Downtown

To celebrate poetry and those who create it."

Admission to all the readings listed is

free and open to the public.

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The submission deadline for the 2011 HPF has passed.

See the Submission Guidelines page or click here for a pdf version.

Submissions are accepted each spring and early summer, so "Juried Poets" can be selected by the "blind jury" method – the judges are shown only the five-page samples of each submitting poet's work without seeing their names.  Each year, the Juried Poet(s) receiving the highest score from the judges is/are invited back the following year to be Featured Poet(s).

Sponsored by Houston Poetry Fest, a 501(c)(3) non-profit arts organization, to which tax deductible donations can be made; Co-Sponsored by the Department of English and the Cultural Enrichment Center of the University of Houston-Downtown.

This site was last updated Oct 2, 2011