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Free Library Festival

Festival event photographs courtesy of Katie Riggan

On Saturday and Sunday, April 18 and 19, 2009, the Free Library hosted its third annual Free Library Festival. Drawing our largest crowd to date--estimated at 35,000!--the Festival presented more than 50 authors, performers, and programs, and 80 exhibitors at the Street Fair and Literary Marketplace. Thanks to our Festival Sponsors, the City of Philadelphia, and the Fairmount Park Commission, to the Free Library staff, and to our more than 200 dedicated Festival Volunteers for another fantastic fest!

Be sure to "book" the 3rd weekend in April 2010 for more books, music, and inspiration!*

_{* Tentatively scheduled 2010 Festival dates are subject to change! For festival updates, click here to join our mailing list!}

Exhibitor Spotlight: American Poetry Review

Sun, April 12, 2009

The Free Library Festival's Street Fair & Literary Marketplace is the place to check out what's happening in the literary and arts world.

American Poetry Review, Booth #32
America's Best Poetry Magazine
www.aprweb.org
Philadelphia-based American Poetry Review was founded in 1972, and over the past 30 years has grown to become one of the most widely circulated poetry magazines, with subscribers in 55 countries. Author Cynthia Ozick writes, "[APR] renews our sense that poetry is urgent, the emergency room of our culture where night and day give way to meticulous and powerful attention."

Posted by Sara Goddard @ 11:12 PM