This website is a gift to the poets, poetry organizers and fans of poetry in Washington. Here you will find the Washington Poetry Calendar and Washington Poetry Blog - two new ways for Washington poets to learn about what is happening around poetry throughout Washington.
Welcome to the New WPA Website
Thank you for a wonderful Ballard Poetry Fest!
The First Annual Ballard Poetry Fest was a tremendous success!
Over 150 individuals attended our numerous free events throughout Ballard from poetry at Umpqua Bank focusing on themes of capitalism to a lovely afternoon with the Washington State Poet Laureate Kathleen Flennikin at Secret Garden books and an exciting Saturday evening with Jed Myers and company at the Conor Byrne pub. Ballard poetry fans and poets united to truly put the poetry back in community.
The Ballard Poetry Fest is the first of the new model of WPA collaborative community co-sponsored events. Secret Garden books wanted to bring poetry to Ballard and it provided the contacts and infrastructure and WPA provided the access to poets and poetry. It is a model we can repeat with other interested organizations and businesses throughout the state.
