Parkmont Poetry All Summer Long!
The energy of the Parkmont Poetry Festival kept rolling throughout the summer, thanks to new programming devised by María Fernanda. The award-winning poet says she “fell in love with the Festival” while serving as a semi-finalist judge in 2024 and felt immediately inspired to get more involved. She pitched some outreach ideas to Kim Schraf, […]
It Takes a Village: 44 Years of the Parkmont Poetry Festival
At the 44th Annual Parkmont Poetry Festival, Kim Schraf, who has led the festival for 19 years, told us the Festival’s story. “We are so fortunate to live in a vibrant poetry village here in the DMV,” she said, “and it’s into just such a village that the Parkmont Poetry Festival was born.” The idea […]