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Join us for a featured reading by Ellie Black from Revelator, followed by an audience Q&A and book signing!🗓️ Saturday, ...
10/12/2026

Join us for a featured reading by Ellie Black from Revelator, followed by an audience Q&A and book signing!

🗓️ Saturday, November 7 (6–7 PM)
📍 Club House Hot Springs

🆓 Free and open to all!

With equal parts humor and horror, Ellie Black's Revelator explores the increasingly blurry digital-physical landscape and its relationship to power, control, and what we worship.

Transforming shards of language, pop culture, and literature into incantatory poems, the collection blurs boundaries between high and low, reality and fantasy, and the sacred and profane.

Angels visit and animatronics come to life. Sylvia Plath, Lee Edelman, and Evil Dead II share space in a single poem. Revelation, this collection proposes, exists at the limits of confessional poetry, religious confession, the dramatic twist, and the divine promise of an apocalyptic ending.

🗣️ Spa City Slam is back! 🎤Rooted in the ’90s and 2000s, when Dr. Paul Tucker and Suzanne Tucker built a space for every...
10/10/2026

🗣️ Spa City Slam is back! 🎤

Rooted in the ’90s and 2000s, when Dr. Paul Tucker and Suzanne Tucker built a space for everyday poets.

Resurrected in 2025 after a long hiatus, this Hot Springs poetry tradition returns for another year of fierce competition, featuring Lemon Pepper Poetry Slam!

20 POETS. 1 SLAM CHAMPION. $1,000 IN PRIZES.

🏆 Bud Kenny Poetry Prizes
🥇 1st Place: $500
🥈 2nd Place: $300
🥉 3rd Place: $200

🗓️ Saturday, November 7
🕖 7–9 PM
📍 Club House Hot Springs

Poets must sign up before November 1!

Sign up at hspf.org/slam

10/09/2026

Join us Sunday, November 8, for a full day of books, poetry, and community at Club House Hot Springs!

Meet local authors, attend book signings and readings, and discover literary organizations and resources from across Arkansas.

11 AM–5 PM | SPA CITY BOOK FAIR 📚
Books, signings, readings, publishers, literary resources, and more!

5–7 PM | BIG GAY POETRY 🏳️‍🌈
Celebrating LGBTQ+ poets and the legacy of Sibling Rivalry Press.

7–9 PM | COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT 🎬
A screening of the documentary following poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley.

📍 Club House Hot Springs (118 Arbor St.)
🗓️ Sunday, November 8

All events are FREE and open to everyone!

Sign up at hspf.org/bookfair

Honoring the legacy of Sibling Rivalry Press, an Arkansas-based publisher that has championed LGBTQ+ poets and voices in...
10/08/2026

Honoring the legacy of Sibling Rivalry Press, an Arkansas-based publisher that has championed LGBTQ+ poets and voices in Arkansas and beyond, we're bringing together an incredible lineup of poets and performers for BIG GAY POETRY!

Featuring Bryan Borland, Stevie Mae, Annika Warrick, Acie Clark, Amanda Lin Hayes, rowan stuart lay, Juniper Bellevue, Bunker Skunk, Stormey Langhammer, and MORE!

Join us for a celebration of q***r poetry and performance!

📚 Spa City Book Fair
🗓️ Sunday, November 8 (5-7pm)
📍 Club House Hot Springs

🆓 Free and open to all!

Sign up for a spot at hspf.org/bookfair!

Music's like poetry. What song would you add? 🤔👇
10/05/2026

Music's like poetry. What song would you add? 🤔👇

📣 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!The Hot Springs Poetry Festival is almost here, and we need your help bringing a full week of poetry...
10/03/2026

📣 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!

The Hot Springs Poetry Festival is almost here, and we need your help bringing a full week of poetry to life!

From November 1–8, volunteers can help us welcome guests, set up festival spaces, staff merchandise tables, capture photos and video, and help keep events running smoothly.

Volunteer opportunities are available throughout the week at Poetry Playground, the Festival Kick-Off & Zine Release Party, Gallery Walk, workshops, Spa City Slam, Spa City Book Fair, Big Gay Poetry, and more!

👕 AND EVERY VOLUNTEER RECEIVES A FREE HSPF T-SHIRT!

Whether you can give us a few hours or spend a whole day with us, we’d love to have you on the team.

Sign up today: hspf.org/volunteer

The 2nd Annual Hot Springs Poetry Festival schedule is here! Join us November 1–8 for Free Poetry for All!1️⃣ SUNDAY, NO...
10/02/2026

The 2nd Annual Hot Springs Poetry Festival schedule is here! Join us November 1–8 for Free Poetry for All!

1️⃣ SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1 — Celebrate Bud Kenny Day!

1–5 PM — Poetry Playground at Garland County Library

2:30–4 PM — Documenting Life in Poetry with Sandy Longhorn at Garland County Library

4–5 PM — Poetry as Witness with Annika Warrick at Garland County Library

6–9 PM — Festival Kickoff & Zine Release Party at Kollective Coffee+Tea

2️⃣ MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2

7–8 PM — Writing Childhood Poems with Megan Nichols — Online

3️⃣ TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3

7–8 PM — Poetry as Personal Archive with Toni Garcia-Butler — Online

4️⃣ WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4

6–9 PM — Wednesday Night Poetry at Kollective Coffee + Tea

5️⃣ THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5

7–8 PM — Online Open Mic at HSPF.org

6️⃣ FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6

7–8 PM — Jazzoetry! A Vinyl DJ Set at Static on Ouachita / Gallery Walk

7️⃣ SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7

1–2 PM — How to Get Published with Zach Harrod & Nate Duke at The Club House Hot Springs

2–3 PM — James McWilliams: Life and Times of Frank Stanford at Club House Hot Springs

3–4 PM — Creating as Rebellion: A Zine Workshop with Hunter L. Schmuck & Wren Jasper at Club House Hot Springs

4–5 PM — Mind + Body: Somatic Poetry with Elizabeth Muscari at Club House Hot Springs

6–7 PM — Ellie Black: Revelator at Club House Hot Springs

7–9 PM — Spa City Poetry Slam featuring Lemon Pepper Poetry Slam at Club House Hot Springs

8️⃣ SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8

11 AM–5 PM — Spa City Book Fair at Club House Hot Springs

5–7 PM — Big Gay Poetry featuring Sibling Rivalry Press at Club House Hot Springs

7–9 PM — Come See Me in the Good Light Film Screening at Club House Hot Springs

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