Event category: Poetry & Literature

"Poetry &" at Fava Pot

For this one-night-only ticketed event, Fava Pot Chef Dina Daniel and Fairfax County Poet Laureate Angelique Palmer will explore how the shared experience of bringing people together through food and language forge a culture, form an identity, and enrich one’s heritage. Founded by Chef Daniel to bring...

"Poetry &" Workshop at Workhouse Arts Center

Join Fairfax County Poet Laureate Angelique Palmer for a creative reflection on poetry & visual arts during National Poetry Month. In this workshop, participants will explore and create ekphrastic poetry-a poem that describes or responds to visual art. Attendees will take inspiration from the Flourish exhibition,...

"Poetry &" at Neutral Ground Bar + Kitchen

Kick off National Poetry Month with a collaboration between poetry & culinary arts. This April, two New Orleans natives bring the bayou to Northern Virginia—one through verse, one through flavor. ArtsFairfax partners with Neutral Ground Bar + Kitchen to offer a prix-fixe menu inspired by Fairfax...

Public Art Reston's ChalkFest at eARTh Day 2026

ChalkFest at eARTh Day is Coming Back in Spring 2026

Celebrate creativity, community, and the planet at ChalkFest at eARTh Day 2026, a joyful outdoor art event hosted by Public Art Reston on Saturday, April 25, 2026, at Reston Town Square Park. The event is presented as part of the annual eARTh Day celebration organized by...

Chanclas Sin Fronteras (Poetry and open mic for inherited silences and invisible norms)

Chanclas Sin Fronteras (Poetry and open mic for inherited silences and invisible norms) There are things we learned that no one wrote down. Ways of speaking. Of belonging. Of staying quiet. Of resisting. Codes that traveled with us through family, migration, neighborhoods, and collective memory. Chanclas...

For the Love of the Gods: A Night of ROMANTASY!

Book Banter: Enjoy a night out with your Book Besties! Assassin heroines, rogue gods, and the potential for love amidst the storm? Count us in! Romantasy fans unite for this evening of divine mythological mischief featuring Rachen Van Dyker, author of the Norse-inspired Fallen Gods, and Alysha Rameera...

Winter Storytelling Workshops Online

Join Better Said Than Done online this winter for a series of storytelling workshops to warm...

A New Leaf: Stories About Change

On January 31, join Better Said Than Done storytelling at Clare and Don’s Beach Shack for “A...

Pride Month Poetry Reading

Reading by Gregory Adams, Xochi Quetzali Cartland, Marlena Chertock, Angelique Palmer, and...

Pride Poetry Workshop: Resistance--LGBTQ Poetry as an Act of Defiance

In this workshop, participants will consider the forms that resistance to the heteronormative...

Pride Poetry Workshop: Queer Homage

In this workshop, we will create poems in conversation with, or in the style of, or in response...

Pride Poetry Workshop: Wronged Women--Hell Hath No Fury

In Postcolonial Love Poem, Natalie Diaz said “Trust your anger. It is a demand for love.”...

Pride Poetry Workshop: Erasure Poems

Working with pre-existing material, we will black out, erase, or otherwise obscure to form...

Pride Poetry Workshop: "Weird Way to Protest...but, Yes!"

Using popular protest signs and memes as prompts, participants create short poems in three...

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