Asheville Wordfest

In 2007, the plan was to create a poetry festival. Over 13 years it has become a community.

The festival launched in 2008 as a multicultural poetry festival. With funding from NCArts and North Carolina Humanities Council, both of which have provided generous and much-needed support through the first decade, Asheville Wordfest has welcomed poets from more than 30 cultural contexts, global and regional.

Galway Kinnell, LeAnne Howe, Allison Adele Hedge Coke, Li-Young Lee, Quincy Troupe, Valzhyna Mort, Cornelius Eady, Raul Zurita, Ross Gay, Glenis Redmond, Elizabeth Bradfield, Frank X Walker, and David Whyte, along with many others, have spoken their work. April 23, 24, 25, 2022, Asheville Wordfest will continue.

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Simon Ortiz from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.

Raul Zurita from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.

Natasha Trethewey from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.

Galway Kinnell from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.

Kathryn Stripling Byer from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.

Cornelius Eady from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.

Patricia Smith from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.

Elizabeth Bradfield from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.

Valzhyna Mort from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.

Lee Ann Brown from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.

Ekiwah Adler-Belendez from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.

Ross Gay from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.

Quincy Troupe from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.

Richard Chess from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.

David Whyte from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.

Flying Words Project from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.

Holly Iglesias from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.

Patrick Rosal from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.

Li-Young Lee from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.

 

Evie Shockely from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.

Erik Bendix from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.

Matthew Shenoda at Asheville Wordfest from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.

2.9 from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.

Day 2 Poet 3 from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.

Paul Guest from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.

Brian Turner from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.