The West End Poetry Festival welcomes all poets and all people curious about or interested in poetry. There are opportunities to meet people, hang out, listen to poetry, share poetry, and celebrate poetry and those who love it.

Schedule:

12:30 p.m. - Join us for coffee and biscuits!

1:00 p.m. -  Welcome from Carrboro Mayor Barbara Foushee, youth poets read Farmer's Market Seedling Day poems, the North Carolina Youth Poet Laureate, Carrboro Poet Laureate Liza Wolff-Francis

1:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. - Book poets reading 
- Jameela Fay Dallis
- Erin Miller
- Vince Kopp
- Crystal Simone Smith

3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. - Coffee and snacks, publishers and tables, books for sale

4:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. - Poetry reading and workshop with Liza Wolff-Francis & James Davis May

5:00 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. - Poetry in the Round

5:45 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. - Dinner from Carrburritos

6:30 p.m. - Craft Talk - "The Art of Futility" with James Davis May

Location: Carrboro Century Center at 100 N. Greensboro Street, Carrboro

8:00 p.m. - Tentative Open Mic

Location: Steel String Brewery at 106-A S. Greensboro Street, Carrboro