This is Day Four of our four-day festival! Click here to peruse all 2025 San José Poetry Festival tickets, workshops and passes!
$35 for general public and $25 for PCSJ Members and youth. Admission may be purchased at the door.
Our Guest Facilitator!
Lucia Misch is a writer, performer and facilitator from unceded Muwekma Ohlone land. Lucia's spoken word poetry has found a home everywhere from historic theaters to high school auditoriums, and their first collection of poetry,The Problem With Solitaire, was released by Write Bloody North in 2020.
Workshop: Nothing Really Matters
How do we write when it feels like we have nothing to write about?
Nothing Really Matters is about learning to notice the eloquence of the everyday, find meaning in the mundane, express the urgency of the unremarkable, and make the personal profound. Offering prompts, process, discussion, and discovery, this generative workshop provides a set of tools for turning "nothing" into the perfect place to start.
Paper, pens and pencils will be provided, but we recommend that you bring everything you need to have the best possible writing session. We expect a large attendance, so we will likely hold the workshop outside under the big oak tree in front of Markham House. You are welcome to use the house to find a comfortable place to write. Coffee and tea will be provided.
Here is a map of History Park. Click image to expand it in a new tab. There are three parking lot options and the schedule of events at Markham House.
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San José Poetry Festival 2025 is presented by Poetry Center San José and sponsored in part by a Cultural Affairs grant from the City of San José; a grant from SVCreates, in partnership with the County of Santa Clara and the California Arts Council; and additional support from Anne & Mark’s Art Party and the Brandenburg Family Foundation. Many thanks to Four Points by Sheraton for hotel accommodations and Robertino R. Ragazza for his guidance and hospitality. We would like to acknowledge and offer our deepest gratitude to past and current venues worthy of your support: San Jose Stage, Central Park Library Santa Clara, Convergence Arts Center, SJZ Break Room, Art Boutiki, Books Inc., Caravan Lounge, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library, First Unitarian Church of San José, History/San José, MACLA, Mama Kin, Recycle Bookstore, The School of Arts and Culture at Mexican Heritage Plaza, Tabard Theatre (R.I.P.), Willow Glen Public Library, Works/San José art & performance center and Hillbrook Upper School of San José. Please support these spaces however you can. And we thank all our volunteers whose time and effort make this festival possible