What Times Are These...?

Featuring:

In addition to outstanding live readings by all four poets on two separate occasions, lively discussion around the theme of the festival - "What Times Are These?" - was followed by a thought-provoking audience question and answer session.

Other festival events included an open mic event featuring readings by regional poets and Teen Poetry Contest winners.

What times are these,
when to speak of trees is almost a crime
for it is a kind of silence about injustice?

-Bertolt Brecht, "To Posterity"

Photos:

Suzanne Lummis

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Libbey Bowl

Young poetry enthusiasts

Galway Kinnell and fan

Joy Harjo's sax

Lawrence Ferlinghetti with Teen Poetry Contest winners
Sarah Chamberlain and Jessie Stern

Loyal volunteers

Selling t-shirts