Winter Festival of Poetry

A potent potable and some poetry on a midwinter’s afternoon? Yes please. The annual Winter Festival of Poetry is switching it up this year, moving to two festive locations, Cafe Coda and Delta Beer Lab for these Sunday afternoon readings.  Readings continue at Coda through Feb. 8; from Feb. 15 on, readings are at Delta. Upcoming readers include Marilyn Annucci and Andrea Musher (Feb. 8), and many others.

media release: An eight-week long festival of poetry held on Sunday afternoons beginning on January 18, 2026 and ending on March 8, 2026. Each Sunday, six poets will read from their work.

January 18 (Cafe Coda) : Adam Fell, Anupama Bhattacharya, Dominic Holt, Breanna Grow, Angela Trudell-Vasquez, Isaiah Janisch.

January 25 (Cafe Coda) : Diego Alegria, Sarah Sadie, Dana Maya, Shoshauna Shy, Jo Scheder, Paul Creswell.

February 1 (Cafe Coda) : Fabu, Andrea Potos, Cristina Norcross, Gary Powell, Maria Campanile, Tim Walsh.

February 8 (Cafe Coda) : Marshall Begel, Marilyn Annucci, Brenda Lempp, Chuck Cantrell, Andrea Musher, Jacqueline Martindale.

February 15 (Delta Beer Lab) : Jodi Vander Molen, E. Hughes, Araceli Esparza, Joseph Lutz, Ronnie Hess, Willie Wright.

February 22 (Delta Beer Lab) : Sujash Purna, Carrie Voigt Schonhoff, Martha Kaplan, Richard Vargas, Lisa Marie Brodsky, Sandy Stark.

March 1 (Delta Beer Lab) :Nathan J. Reid, Christine Reding, Annie Sokovich, Jeffrey Z. Rothstein, Sara Parrell, Raindog.

March 8 (Delta Beer Lab) : Margaret Benbow, Steve Tomasko, Mo O'Grady, F. J. Bergmann, Arsenio Sorrell, Kristian Petrov Iliev & The Racing Pulses.

Admission is free. Donations accepted.