Richmond Poetry Fest

Richmond Poetry Fest hosted by the Visual Arts Center of Richmond
Friday, April 11 – Saturday, April 12, 2025

Richmond Poetry Fest is an event co-created by VisArts staff and a group of former and current writers-in-residence! A celebration of poetry and community, Richmond Poetry Fest will include readings, workshops, activities for poets and artists of all ages, and vendors.

Richmond Poetry Fest is a free community event supported by the Carole Weinstein Endowment for Creative Writing.

Stay tuned for updates!

About the Writing Program at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond: The VisArts writing program offers classes as diverse and vibrant as our student population with coursework for writers at all stages, from beginner to advanced. Classes cover a range of creative writing topics from poetry to fiction to memoir to screenwriting and are offered in flexible formats from short weekend workshops to 8-week classes. Thanks to VisArts diverse programming and studios, we have the unique ability to combine visual arts and writing to offer classes that can be welcoming to both writers and visual artists, like Sewetry, Embroidered poems—a class combining poetry and embroidery.   We’re proud of the long history of writing classes at VisArts and that we’ve grown to be a hub for writers wishing to learn and practice their craft.