Upcoming Events
Special Event: Music and Poetry
with Brian Clifton and J. Miller
January 12, 2020 at 6:00 PM, Fenix Gallery
Poetry, Metaphor, Madness
with Jeffrey Thomson
January 19, 2020 at 2:00 PM, Nightbird Books
Open Mouth Presents: Jeffrey Thomson
January 19, 2020 at 7:00 PM, Nomads Southtown
Workshop TBA
with Marlin M. Jenkins
February 9, 2020 at 2:00 PM, Nightbird Books
Open Mouth Presents: Marlin M. Jenkins
February 9, 2020 at 7:00 PM, Nomads Southtown
Workshop TBA
with Kathryn Nuernberger and Jenny Molberg
March 13, 2020 at 2:00 PM, Nightbird Books
Open Mouth Presents: Kathryn Neurnberger and Jenny Molberg
March 13, 2020 at 7:00 PM, venue TBA
The Open Mouth Reading Series is a community-based poetry series located in Fayetteville, Arkansas. We host a monthly reading featuring poets whose work we love. We also host an annual fall festival, workshops, and a summer poetry retreat featuring visiting faculty.
We are a federal 501(c)(3) non-profit, and every dollar you contribute goes toward providing additional programming to the Northwest Arkansas community. We hope you’ll take part in our vision!
Announcements
Applications for our 2020 retreat are now live!
Open Mouth is now accepting applications for our 2020 generative writing retreat with faculty members torrin a. greathouse and Jake Skeets. Click here to learn more or go directly to the application by clicking here.
Help Open Mouth bring more poets to NWA!
Open Mouth's
programming
continues to grow
every year, and
we'll soon be able
to announce
the lineup for the
first half of 2020!
In the past several
months, we've been in touch with wonderful authors who want to visit Arkansas for the first time, but have had to turn us down because we can't provide travel funding. All our current funding goes to paying reader stipends, and expenses related to hosting and to special programs. That's why we're launching a travel funding campaign! Our goal is to raise $6,000 by the end of January 2020, which would enable us to pay for flights and/or gas mileage for every visiting writer in the coming year.
If you'd like to help us make sure poets reach our community, you can donate via PayPal, sign up to give regularly on Patreon, or contribute to our traveling poets fund on GoFundMe. Every little bit counts!