Finest Paradise for Poets

Poetry at Round Top

Poetry at Round Top is the best kept secret on the American poetry scene. It's new, small, powerfully charged and incredibly intimate. In early May, a handful of the nation's poetic luminary descend from their desks for a weekend outside of Austin. For $100 (or around $250 if you want to bunk on site and eat like a queen) you can join in. Seventy-two packed hours of reading poetry, writing workshops, panels on craft, and basking in pastoral beauty await. Grab a picnic lunch and sit down next to a Pulitzer Prize winner in the sunshine. Discuss the nuances of birdsong. Carolyn Forche, Claudia Rankine, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Barbara Ras read in 2006. Expect Li-Young Lee, Chase Twichell, Rosemary Catacalos, Cyrus Cassells, and more in 2007. With lakes, herb gardens, hidden fountains, chapels, and a sense that time is suspended for us to cherish its details, the Poetry at Round Top Festival is paradise – for poets and poetry lovers alike.

Round Top
248 Jester, PO Box 89, Round Top, 979/249-3129
www.festivalhill.org