POWER OF POETRY

The Hocking Hills Festival of Poetry

2008

Poems from the Heartland is this year's theme.

Join Ted Kooser, Poet Laureate of the United States 2004-6 and George Bilgere, award winning Ohio poet, on April 18 and 19 for a recitational and musical celebration of the written and spoken word.

Click here for information about the Poetry Contest

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

"... 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

Our Sponsors:

The Logan-Hocking County Library

 

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