St. Augustine PoetFest - Day Three

Saturday, April 13, 2024
Day Three of Three
10 AM – 5 PM
Flagler College campus

The festival continues during the day with a student and faculty showcase, tabling by St. John County Book Mobile, the PoetFest Book Bazaar, as well as a storytelling seminar,  dramatic play reading, and author talks and panels at the historic downtown campus of Flagler College. Events conclude in the afternoon with an awards ceremony for the winners of the St. Johns Cultural Council Haiku Contest, followed by a reception.

Registration, Book Bazaar, and Festival Contact Center
9 AM to 2:30 PM
Ringhaver Student Center, 1st Floor, in Jay’s Place located at 50 Sevilla Street
Featuring author recordings and publications, as well as displays by FLARE: The Flagler Review (Flagler College) and Elan (Douglas High School of the Arts Literary Journal).

Typewriter Poets and Indie Market Pop Up
11 AM to 2:30 PM
Student Center Paver Patio,
Join PoetFest in the garden area between Markland Place and the back of the Ringhaver Student Center at 50 Sevilla Street. Shop for crafts and handmade items from local creatives and become captivated by the allure of pounding typewriter keys. Poets will compose poems on the spot with their vintage typewriters.

Gamache-Koger Theater
Located in Flagler College’s Ringhaver Student Center
First Floor
50 Sevilla Street
St. Augustine, FL 32084

10 – 10:50 AM Gamache-Koger Theater Student Showcase presented by Flagler College English Department
Featured Flagler College Students: Haley Butzer-Collins, Sophia Falber, Jaden Rudd, Aidan West.

11 – 11:50 AM Gamache-Koger Faculty Showcase presented by Ancient City Poets.
Teachers and professors from Flagler College and beyond share their poetry. Featured Faculty: Ben Atkinson (Flagler College), Sarah Karowski (Tallahassee Community College), M.L. Williams (Valdosta State University).

12 – 12:50 PM Gamache-Koger Theater
Live Staged Reading presented by Amy Goldin and A Classic Theatre.

1:00 – 1:50 PM Gamache-Koger Theater
“Storytelling Connections: St. Augustine and Beyond”. Margaret Kaler and Tale Tellers of St. Augustine with guests making connections with stories.

VIRGINIA ROOM EVENTS

Virginia Room
Located Flagler College’s Ringhaver Student Center
Second Floor
50 Sevilla Street
St. Augustine, FL 32084

10 -10:50 AM Virginia Room
“Kerouac’s Last Two Years – St. Petersburg, Florida”.
Larry Jaffe, Lifetime New Generation Beat Poet Laureate, is a Poet in Residence at the Jack Kerouac House in St. Petersburg. Mr. Jaffe will talk about the author and read from his work. Kerouac lived with his wife Stella and his mother Gabrielle in the house at 5169 10th Ave North in St. Petersburg, Florida from 1967 until his death on October 21, 1969, although Kerouac had lived in central Florida off and on for over a decade. His house at the corner of 10th Ave North and 5th Street was the last place Kerouac came off the road.

11 – 11:50 AM Virginia Room
“From Bookstaplers to Substack – Publishing 101”
Independent editors and creatives examine the role of self in “self-publishing.”
PANEL: Johnny Masiulewicz (Happy Tapir Press), Dustin Brookshire (Limp Wrist), Lindsay Anderson (Mischief on the River), Andrea LeDew (For Random Learning Comes).

12 – 12:50 PM Virginia Room
Music and the Muse featuring poet Claire Conroy (Maine) performing improvisational music by singer-songwriter Taylor Teachout followed by a Q&A discussion on how music can take your poetry to the next level.

1 – 1:50 PM Virginia Room
“Florida Is Haunted: Poetic Ghosts In The Sunshine State”.
Poetry inspired by hauntings and the haunted. As Jacques Derrida said — “It is the question of ghosts.” Featured Florida Poets: Ma Bones, Nick Dunkenstein, Keri Foster, Damon Thomas

2 – 2:50 PM Virginia Room
Guest Presentation by Outlaw Poet Ron Whitehead (Tennessee)
“The Antinomian Outsider aspect of The Beat Generation” followed by book signing and meet and greet.

3 – 4:40 PM Virginia Room
Closing Event
3:00 pm Words from Festival Chair Chris Bodor
3:05 pm Welcoming Words from City of St. Augustine Vice Mayor Roxanne Horvath
3:15 pm to Presentation by City of St. Augustine Poet Laureate Norma Sherry
3:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Presentation by St. Johns Cultural Council Executive Director,
Christina Parrish Stone “Winners of 4th Annual St. Johns County Haiku Contest”.

Followed by a Celebratory Reception on the Tinlin Landing
2nd Floor lobby
Ringhaver Student Center
50 Sevilla Street