POWER OF POETRY

The Hocking Hills Festival of Poetry

2009

The Heart of It All: Ohio Poets is this year's theme.

Join award winning Ohio poets George Bilgere, of Cleveland and Lynn Powell, of Oberlin  on April 17 and 18 for a recitational and musical celebration of the written and spoken word.

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Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors, this year's events will be free.

"It is a difficult thing, indeed, to get an arts conference up and running in a small community, and I know of no other persons who have done it quite so well. " 

Ted Kooser U.S. Poet Laureate, 2004-6

"... it is the job of the poet to give pleasure, to amaze and exhort as well as to testify to the real; to demonstrate the capabilities of human genius and joy. Song is heroic. It has its place even at a funeral. How else will we remember that anything is possible."      Tony Hoagland

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