2024 Nashville Poetry Fest: Saturday, April 27th
2024 Nashville Poetry Fest: Saturday, April 27th
Come to write. Need not consider yourself a writer. Each Writer's Gym features a unique entrance into the art and practice of composition. Methods and tactics presented in each Gym exist to be constructive, so feel free to reinterpret them, flip them, or do your own thing entirely. Explore your mind, compose specific poems or stories on the spot, obliterate that writer's block, reorient your thinking process through unorthodox entrances, or edit something you’ve already written — It’s your gym!
SESSION LEADER: Tyquan Morton
My land is/ain’t your land:
Writers have always found ways to explore and reclaim their relationships to nature and its resources, sometimes using it to address the society’s shortcomings, but most often as a means to imagine a utopia. In this writer’s gym, we will use the brevity and precision of the Haiku and the Tanka to reflect on the natural world around us as a call-to-action and a state of reflection.
*7PM
*This event is hosted by COOP GALLERY at The Packing Plant (507 Hagan St.)
*JOURNALS + PENS provided by Turnip Green Creative Reuse
*Complimentary MASKS from Mask4Mask
*Complimentary SNACKS by DOZEN BAKERY
*This event is FREE W/ DONATIONS ENCOURAGED *ALL PROCEEDS GO TO SESSION LEADER
PO' BOYS & POETS + FNPL present the 2024 NASHVILLE POETRY FEST (!)
SATURDAY, APRIL 27TH
*HEADLINING POETS*
-Lady Flame
-Chet Weise (with Belly Full of Stars)
-Wisdom Way
-Richard Perkins (with The Sea People)
-Virghost
-Jadyn Marshall (Nashville Youth Poet Laureate)
-Jems
-Nathan Spoon (with Infanta Silhouette)
*LOCAL ORGS + POETS*
-SALT Weekly
-Saraya
-Wakeup Comics
-Ashley Wansley
-Third Man Books
-K.Bumpas Art
-April Gloaming Press
-Valenah
-Waxing & Waning Journal
-Ashley Jea The Artist
-The Porch Writers' Collective
-Seven Roots Deep Botanica
-Francis House
-Creatif Moi
-Hot Mess House
-Mbellished Gifts
-Eulalia Books
-Differentbycreation
-Public Zoo Press
-Mink Mobile Flash Tattoo Company
-South Nashville Action People (SNAP)
-Black Mental Health Village
-FNPL Books By Nashville Poets
-Po' Boys & Poets; Nashville
-Southern Word
*ACTIVITIES* (by Turnip Green Creative Reuse)
-Zine/Book + Bookmark Making
-Community Poem
-Erasure/Blackout Poetry
-Magnetic Poetry
Poetry Portraits by:
-Kat Johnson
-Sam Malick Petschulat
-Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum
-Dana Malone
*FOOD*
Hurts Hot Chicken
*DRINK*
Jackalope Brewing Co.
@ THE PACKING PLANT (507 Hagan St.)
11AM-SUNSET
FREE
ALL AGES
OUTDOORS, PET FRIENDLY
We're celebrating the halfway point to the 2nd Annual Zine City Fest so FNPL is hosting a special *All Zine Edition* Show & Sell Open-Air Maker's Bazaar for the MAY 4 Wedgewood-Houston Art Crawl at The Packing Plant: Zines, & that's it (!)
*LIVE DJ SETS by WXNA
*DRINKS by JACKALOPE BREWING CO.
*PIZZA by DICEY'S PIZZA & TAVERN
4PM-Sunset
Free
Outdoor event, pet-friendly, all-ages
(Stay tuned for more info on the 2nd Annual Zine City Fest: SEPTEMBER 27-29: @zinecityfest )