Fresno Famous

If you fancy yourself a fan of words or that little thing called readin' then this week has three FREE literary offerings that are sure to bedazzle:

Starts: Oct 20, 7:00 pm

Ishle Yi Park, the Poet Laureate of Queens, New York, and regular performer on HBO's Def Poetry Jam, will bring her spoken-word art to the central San Joaquin Valley this weekend for the first Slam

The latest installment of the Branching Out: Poetry for the 21st Century
series comes to the Woodward Park library next week, with the appearance
of poet Susan Stewart.

Each time Blas Manuel De Luna has thought that being a poet might not have been a good idea, dashes of fortune have redeemed his trust in writing.

In the last six months, Brian Turner has been interviewed all over the world about the unlikely intersection of two topics that loom large over his life: war and poetry.

Starts: Mar 23, 7:30 pm

Starts: Mar 10, 7:30 pm

Starts: Mar 5, 6:15 pm

Starts: Mar 4, 5:00 pm