OPEN MOUTH POETRY FESTIVAL
October 30 + 31, 2020 | Fayetteville, Arkansas
Join us for the fourth annual Open Mouth Poetry Festival, a virtual
celebration of poetry by local and national writers.
Join us for two readings by this year's festival features!
Readings will take place virtually via Zoom with Otter Live Captions, and an ASL interpreter will be present. Access copies of all poems will be provided via Google Docs.
OPEN MOUTH FESTIVAL READING
with Michael Torres, Eloisa Amezcua, Jessica Abughattas, Shannon Sankey, Allison Joseph
and opening reading by Calypso Jane Selwyn
October 30, 2020 at 7:00pm CDT via Zoom
OPEN MOUTH FESTIVAL READING
with Benjamin Garcia, Meg Day, Jihyun Yun, Callista Buchen, Leila Chatti
and opening reading by Rome Hernández Morgan
October 31, 2020 at 7:00pm CDT via Zoom
Meet this year's opening readers!
A mini-feature by local poets will precede each festival reading. Help us celebrate our local poetry community!
Calypso Jane Selwyn
Rome Hernández Morgan
Sign up for a Writing Workshop with one of our featured readers!
All workshops will take place virtually via Zoom with Otter Live Captions. An ASL interpreter will be present for each event. Access copies of workshop materials will be made available via Google Docs. Space is limited to 20 participants per workshop.
Sound as Memory
with Eloisa Amezcua
October 30, 2020
at 4:00 PM CDT via Zoom
Demons, Ghosts, & Skeletons
in the Closet:
Writing What Scares Us
with Leila Chatti
October 31, 2020
at 11:00 AM CDT via Zoom
The Elegy in October
with Michael Torres
October 31, 2020
at 1:00 PM CDT via Zoom
Stay Home & Get Gone
with Meg Day
October 31, 2020
at 3:00 PM CDT via Zoom
Many thanks to the King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Arkansas for supporting this year's festival.