The reading schedule has been added to the website. Find out when your favorite poets are reading. Or come hear a poet with whom you're unfamiliar.

A new poem by Winston-Salem-based poet Carl Martin, entitled "Starveling Shepherdess of Predicates and Truth Functions." Carl will once again read at the 2005 Festival as he did last year.

by Kent Johnson
	1. Carrboro: A Post-Avant Alternative to the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival (only better) 2. Carrboro: Where Experiment Has a Big Non-Poet Audience and You Better Believe it Dana Gioia 3. Carrboro: Where Language Gets Road-Tested Amidst Mountain Streams Full of Trout Fat as Your Freaking Thigh

"...last June’s first-ever Carrboro Poetry Festival drew 40 poets and standing-room crowds. Herron would like to see more poets who write in a way that both interacts with the austere concerns of other poets and speaks to the hearts and minds of a broader audience."

- Editorial in the 25 December 2004 Chapel Hill Herald.

The Orange County Arts Commission has awarded the 2005 Carrboro Poetry Festival its Arts Program Grant.

Audio recordings of nearly all readers from 2004 are available on the site for download.

Ten hours of poetry!

"Part John Phillip Sousa, part James Brown, this poetry festival came about at exactly the right time and made my feet move in ways heretofore unknown."