Please join us for the 2026 Crestone Poetry Festival, August 21st-23rd.

A vibrant honoring of the spoken word, where individual voices gather, resonate, and become part of a larger field of connection.

Readings, workshops, and open mic — poets gathering in the shadow of the Sangre de Cristos. Featuring Colorado Poet Laureate Crisosto Apache and poets from across the region.

The festival will offer workshops, featured readers, open mic opportunities and time for poets around the region to get acquainted.

Crestone Poetry Festival Retreat:
The Living Poem

The retreat offers an intimate space to deepen your relationship with writing—to cultivate your craft and to experience writing as a living practice. Together, we will move between solitude and community: quiet hours devoted to cultivating your own voice, guided circles of learning and sharing, and time spent in the wild, elemental landscape of Crestone.

With guidance from Crisosto Apache, Colorado’s Poet Laureate, you will be supported in listening more closely to the language that lives within you, and in shaping that language within a supportive poetry community.

When: August 19th-21st

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