Name: BARDS AGAINST HUNGER POETRY DAY-Poets Anonymous, Poetry Preserves & NoVA Bards
Start: 2025-11-01T15:00:00.000Z
Location: Fairfax County Library Fairfax Public Library

Poets Anonymous, NoVa Bards and Poetry Preserves announces a day of poetry at the library.

Founded in 2013, Bards Against Hunger has hosted and sponsored poetry events all around the country and beyond with the aim of raising food donations for local pantries and food banks.

Come out to share a day of poetry and giving to the community. *While the event is free we ask everyone coming to bring canned food/non-perishable for Bards Against Hunger.*

Come and join us IN PERSON for a day of poetry at Fairfax County Centerville Library. The library is located in Centerville near the intersection of St Germain drive and Centerville road. It will run from doors open at 11:00 a.m. to 5:30-ish. Come for the whole event or feel free to drop in at any time.

**RSVP BY EMAIL ONLY**
This event is free, but we need a head count. If interested in coming please email us at:
**poetsanonffx@gmail.com**

The activities will include the following;
11:30 – 1:00
Poetry Preserves will host a session discussing a selected poem. We will then use that poem as an ekphrastic start of writing our own poems in response.

1:00 - 1:30 Lunch Break

1:30 – 3:00
A workshop from NoVA Bards reviewing and editing the poetry written in the first session or other poems that the attendees would like reviewed.

3:00 – 3:15 break

3:15 - 5:00
A special edition of Poets Anonymous open mic reading.

5:00 to 5:30 Bards Against Hunger discussion and gathering

POETS ANONYMOUS NOVA’s longest running Open Mic since 1991

Lesley Tyson

Gregory Carrigan

starfalls

Lindsay Crouch

Louis

Ariane

Trish

Forrest George (she/her)

Simone

Nicholas Vaughn

Leela

Lorenzo  

BARDS AGAINST HUNGER POETRY DAY-Poets Anonymous, Poetry Preserves & NoVA Bards 

Fairfax County Library Fairfax Public Library

Lesley Tyson Poet

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