Immerse yourself in verse and music ringing through Rochester’s incomparable outdoor amphitheater.

Thursday, June 12, 6:30 – 9:30 pm

Featured Artists:

Geoffrey Babbitt is the author of Appendices Pulled from a Study on Light and the 2023 Betsy Joiner Flanagan Prize-winning A Grain of Sand in Lambeth, forthcoming from the University of Nevada Press.

Cathy Linh Che, the daughter of Vietnam War refugees, is a multidisciplinary artist and author of Becoming Ghost (Washington Square Press, 2025) and Split (Alice James Books), winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize.

Kathryn Cowles has published two collections of poetry. She is an associate professor of English at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

Singer-songwriter Cammy Enaharo will perform during intermissions.

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Full festival schedule here: also featuring Tokeya C. Graham, Tony Leuzzi, “In the Tradition” (with Reenah Golden, Anderson Allen, and David Shakes), Steven Humphrey and Adrianne Santucci, Ralph Black, Kathy Engel, Patricia Spears Jones, improvisational band Margaret Explosion with guitarist Bernie Heveron.