Features local, regional, and national talent. Three outdoor stages, various indoor venues. Concerts, plays, exhibitions, workshops, readings, street theater, family activities. Sponsors a state-wide writing competition, poetry slams, books signings, panel discussions.
Most events are free, and all are open to the public.
Events include speakers, poetry, fiction, and non-fiction readers, poetry slams, and events for children. The National Association for Poetry Therapy Located in Washington, DC, hosts an annual conference in a different city each year. Always includes some big name visiting writers.