West End Poetry Festival

The West End Poetry Festival is sponsored by the Town of Carrboro and is planned by the Carrboro Poets Council, with the assistance of the staff of Carrboro’s Recreation and Parks Department and the support of the Carrboro Arts Committee. Carrboro held its first poetry festival, organized by then Carrboro Poet Laureate Patrick Herron, in 2005. Over the last decade, many poets from North Carolina and beyond have participated. Participants have included finalists for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; winners of the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Los Angeles Book Prize, the Oregon Book Award, and the Pushcart Prize; recipients of fellowships Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts; and too many other accolades to easily list here.