Join us as we kick off the 2025 Winter Festival of Poetry, The Winter Festival of Poetry, a program of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, is Wisconsin's longest continuously running poetry program of its size. Hosted by poet James P. Roberts, this 8-week series features six poets each week, reading for roughly 10 minutes each. The series runs from January 19 to March 9. The theme this year is PASSPORT TO POETRY, celebrating places we'd prefer to be, especially in the winter!

Katrin Talbot
Isaiah Janisch
Sara Perrell
Charles Edward Payne
Cristina Norcross
Joseph Lutz

Each week will have a sub-theme and will feature fun facts about our "travel" destinations. For more information, contact James P. Roberts at [email protected] or call 608-242-7340.The Winter Festival of Poetry is supported by Mystery To Me, White Hawk Press, Avol's Books, WORT FM, American Family Insurance & Colleen Frentzel, Dennis Collier, Fran and Louis Rall, Robin Chapman, Gillian Nevers, A Place To Be, Apollo Poetry, Katrin Talbot, Kimberly A. Blanchette, Lisa Marie Brodsky, Donna Carnes, Christopher Chambers, Ron Czerwien, Sharon Daly, Araceli Esparza, Cristin Jacque, Martha Kaplan, Dana Maya, Andrea Musher, Sara Parrell, Andrea Potos, Jo Scheder, Carrie Voigt Schonhoff, Lynn Patrick Smith, Marilyn L. Taylor, Guy Thorvaldsen, Olga Trubetskoy, Jodi Vander Molen, Tim Walsh, and Beth Ann Workmaster.