Looking for a way to support local artists this weekend? Come on out for the 4th Annual Long Beach Poetry Festival this Saturday, October 18th, from 10:30am-9pm. Hosted by local writers Donna Hilbert, Kevin Lee, Tamara Madison, Clint Margrave, and Paul Tayyar, and sponsored in part by a grant from Poets & Writers, this all-day event is FREE and open to the public. 

This year's festival, taking place downtown in the Cultural Alliance Long Beach's Bungalow Building at 727 N Pine Ave, will be headlined by Joe Weil, along with a full day of Southern California and Long Beach poets. In fact, stop by at 12pm to hear WE Labs' own Danielle Mitchell, who runs The Poetry Lab every first and third Thursday of the month, right here in our coworking space. 

Below is a full schedule of Saturday's readers. We hope to see you there!

10:30: Doors open

11:00 – 12:00
Elder Zamora
Ricki Mandeville
John Gardiner

12:00 – 1:00
Danielle Mitchell
Olivier Bochettaz
Kevin Ridgeway

1:30 – 2:30
Grant Hier
Jennifer K Sweeney
Michael Miller

3:00–4:00
Mathieu Cailler
Lynne Thompson
Shawnte Orion

4:00– 5:00
Bill Gainer
Julia Stein
Michael Meyerhofer

5:00-6:00
John Tottenham
Sonia Greenfield
Manuel Paul Lopez

6:00-7:00
Douglas Kearney
Emily Vogel
Troy Jollimore

7:30
Joe Weil