Houston Poetry Fest 2019
Houston's oldest poetry festival, celebrating it's 34th Anniversary!
HOUSTON POETRY FEST 2019
October 11, 12 & 13, 2019
Welcome Center
of the University of Houston – Downtown,
3rd Floor, Girard St. Bldg, 201 Girard Street
in downtown Houston, Texas
"Once a year, in October,
Poets and lovers of poetry
Gather together at UH-
To celebrate the art of poetry and those who create it."
Admission to all the readings listed is
free and open to the public.
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See the Submissions Guidelines page
Submissions are scheduled to open Feb 1, 2019.
"Juried Poets" will be selected by the "blind jury" method – the judges are shown only the submissions 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-
This page was last updated Jan 19, 2019
THE LORENE POUNCEY MEMORIAL AWARD All women poets submitting entries to Houston Poetry Fest will automatically be considered for a cash prize established by Sandi Glorfield in honor of the late Lorene Pouncey, who passed away December 4, 2011. Lorene Pouncey, one of the founders of Houston Poetry Fest in 1985, was a life- |
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