12th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival Opens Today

Opening Today: The 12th annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival, featuring Robert Hass, former United States Poet Laureate (1995-1997) and 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner, as Special Guest Poet. Once again being held at Old School Square in Delray Beach, the Festival will feature 15 of America's most engaging poets at nine literary workshops and numerous ticketed public events, including readings, talks, interviews, panel discussions, coffeehouse performance, and more. In addition to Mr. Hass, the nationally renowned poets will include Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Dominique Christina, Carl Dennis, Denise Duhamel, Carol Frost, Thomas Lux, Alan Shapiro, Tom Sleigh, Marc Kelly Smith, Mary Szybist and Kevin Young.

The Palm Beach Poetry Festival is generously sponsored by The National Endowment for the Arts, Morgan Stanley, the Windler Group of Morgan Stanley's Atlanta Office; the Cultural Council of Palm County, the Palm Beach County Tourism Development Council and the Board of Commissioners of Palm Beach County; The Palm Beach Post; Visit Florida; WLRN; and Murder on the Beach, Delray Beach's independent bookseller. For more information, please visit www.palmbeachpoetryfestival.org.

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