Look for information on our upcoming Poetry Season in the Fall,  2010

The next biennial Skagit RIver Poetry Festival will be in 2012.

Thank you to all who made this year's Festival a huge success!

 

The Skagit River Poetry Project began in 1998, the result of a conversation between leaders from seven rural school districts in Skagit County, Washington. These leaders hoped to create a project that would support our high literacy standards with the arts; poetry was the natural vehicle. From 1998 to the present, over 50 Skagit county teachers a year have hosted resident poets. More than 10,000 local students have had the experience of playing with words while reading and writing poetry one-on-one with experts. These professional poets have modeled instructional strategies to teachers and prepared a bank of poetry lessons. The culminating event for this in-class work is the every-other-year Skagit River Poetry Festival. In 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2010 the Festival Board invites a combination of regional and national poets to participate in readings, workshops, and panels over two days.