Bard & Broadside Festival & Poetry Workshop
April 13, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
April is poetry month, and WAG has teamed up with ARTSPEAKSgnv for our April program.
On Sunday, April 13, 2025, WAG members and guests are invited to the Bard & Broadside Poetry Festival and Workshop at the Alachua County Library Headquarters. It will begin at 1:00 p.m.
There will be no April program at the Millhopper Library.
The Bard and Broadside Poetry Festival and Workshop will feature Guest Poet Lola Haskins.
Haskins has published fifteen books of poetry and three of prose. The most recent books of poems are Like Zeros, Like Pearls, (Charlotte Lit 2025), Homelight (Charlotte Lit 2023)—named Poetry Book of the Year by Southern Literary Review, and Asylum (University of Pittsburgh, 2019)—featured in the NYT Magazine. Past honors include the Iowa Poetry Prize, two Florida Book Awards, narrative poetry prizes from Southern Poetry Review and New England Poetry Review, a Florida’s Eden prize for environmental writing, and the Emily Dickinson prize from Poetry Society of America. She has served as Honorary Chancellor for the Florida State Poets Association since 2016.
Additionally, enjoy a poetry reading at 4:00 p.m.. A book signing will follow.