Living Poets

Through the designation of a Fairfax County Poet Laureate, ArtsFairfax celebrates and supports a poet to raise the visibility of poetry, engage new audiences, and encourage the creation of poetry and other literary works in Northern Virginia.

The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience.

A website about Living Poets, their books and recordings of them reciting their work. It also has a section from the poets about teaching Living Poets.

A Nationwide Celebration of 250 Years of African American Poetry. Presented by Library of America in partnership with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering is a week-long festival of cowboy poetry, music and art, rooted in tradition but focused on today’s rural West. It began in 1985 with a small group of folklorists and poets and has grown into national and international event.