The Mission of the Whatcom Poetry Series is to inspire, broaden, and sustain a strong, interconnected literary community by providing opportunities to experience written and oral poetry.

About the Whatcom Poetry Series

The Whatcom Poetry Series (WPS) provides free public poetry readings featuring distinguished Pacific Northwest poets through The Poet As Art program. Participating poets have at least three of the following criteria: actively writing and publishing; involved in their literary communities; award-winning; and recognized for giving compelling performances of their work. The diverse audience experiences all forms of poetry, including a wide variety of concepts and inspirations the poets' works contain. The WPS is one of the main points of contact for the exchange of ideas and information among individuals and groups within the Whatcom County poetry community.

The Whatcom Poetry Series has expanded its services by offering poetry workshops taught by the featured poets of The Poet As Art reading series. The WPS has begun to record the readings and interviews of the poets in order to establish an archive of Pacific Northwest poets to be used as a resource now and in the future.

The Whatcom Poetry Series is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization.

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