Lovingly tended and attended for nine years now, the festival is in full bloom and its seeds are spreading far and wide. What can I say? Every year, we say ‘best yet’ but this year really did top them all. On Saturday morning 20+ poets kayaked down the river writing poems while 20+ and more […]
When I arrived at the 9th annual Little River Poetry festival Friday Toni Britton was reading poems under the big tent to an attentive audience. LRPF founders Judith and Jack set the stage with words of welcome. Poets reunited with hugs and conversation while lunch was being set up by the crew at Floyd’s Outer […]
-The following was written by Judith Stevens, Little River Poetry Festival co-founder, pictured on the right with fellow co-founder Jack Callan and first appeared in The Floyd Press on 5/16/24 Who could have guessed 9 years ago that Floyd Festival co-founder, Jack Callan, formerly of Norfolk, Virginia, would be living on the side of a […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on May 16, 2024 Dubbed Floydfest Horizon, the 2024 festival is off to a good start, after taking a year off to develop the festival’s new Floyd County property at 5826 Floyd Highway North in Check. Set to take place on July 24 -28, Floydfest 24 will […]
It was the 4th annual Floyd Americana Fest, “a festival in the heart of Floyd, VA that celebrates our eclectic local music, art, and community” the festival’s Facebook page reads. This year, the stages were spread throughout downtown. I arrived in time to catch the Lamb Brothers playing Grateful Dead tunes at the Cocoa Mia […]
That’s the way I introduced my friend Katherine and myself at the Death Class Poetry Reading that we presented at Yoga Jam 2023. She is a Life Passage Ceremonialist who leans towards the study of the spiritual masters, like the Dali Lama. I am more drawn to the work of master mythologist and Irish wise […]
Meet some of my dance friends dancing to the tunes of Justin Trawick @Yoga Jam. The highlight of Saturday at Yoga Jam was finally getting Ryan Turman to dance with me. Don’t forget to watch your carbon footprint, Ryan! Even Ryan’s dad Mike (whose land the festival is held on) had some moves. That was […]
At the 12th annual Floyd Yoga Jam, life-passages officiant Katherine Chantal opened the festival with the traditional opening ceremony, bringing attendees together to set the sacred and joyful intent for the four-day festival of yoga, wellness workshops, music, dance, art, children’s activities and camping in the great outdoors. Watch HERE. The Theme this year is […]
There were lots of outer towners at Floydstock, a Dogtown and town event scheduled to fill the festival gap after our beloved Floydfest got cancelled. Lots of tie dye could be spotted over the weekend, some with Floydfest logos. And some wore this, ‘going to be historic’ shirt, designed by our friend Sylvester. Blacksburg’s Jared […]
Poetic License? Everyone brought their style to the last day of the 3-day festival. Sunday Best? Richmond poet Joanna Lee was Sunday’s featured reader. Her poem “To the Daughter I Never Had” knocked me out. “There were days I never thought of you, whole stretches of hours I was happy finite. Weeks I got lost […]
At Saturday’s Little River Poetry Festival Brian Magill did a workshop on writing Neanderthal Poetry, poems that consist of only one syllable words, short and with a twist. We read our finished pieces in caveman voices, and if we mistakenly used a two syllable word Karen gave us the gong. Of course, it was all […]
Day 1 Friday evening at Floyd’s Little River Poetry Festival: After dinner in the field Brian hit the gong to call the poets to the big tent stage. I told him I hoped this wasn’t going to be a Gong Show. Later when I was doing my workshop I asked for a show of hands […]
