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5th Poetry Downtown Festival is cancelled.
Theme:
In 2025 the theme of Poetry Downtown Festival is
Gaze Upon Us
This is the title of ‘Warrior Poet’ (February 15, 1946 Omaha, Nebraska – December 8, 2015 Santa Clara County, California) poem ‘Gaze Upon Us’. Listen him reading this poem in the video under the concept festival guide Poetry Downtown Festival 2025.
Poetry Train
The Poetry Train 2025 will takes 48 hours and 41 minutes and it will depart at Omaha (OMA) and arrive at San Jose (SJC). Just 5 miles away from Santa Clara County.
Deadline
Would you like to read in Omaha, Denver, San Jose, or San Francisco? Send us then your ‘Gaze Upon Us*’ poem before September 1. From all entries we select max 52 poems for the 5th Poetry Downtown anthology (paperback).
