The third annual Authors and Artists Festival: Writing the Land is a celebration of the intersection of poetry with social- and ecological-justice, online February 26-27, 2022. All-BIPOC headline speakers include Saturday: Jillian Hishaw, Dina Gilio-Whitaker, John Francis; Sunday: Ross Gay, Rahawa Haile, and Latria Graham. Poets from the Writing the Land project www.writingtheland.org will read including Cheryl Savageau, JuPong Lin, David Crews, Angie Vasquez, Alice B. Fogel, Paul Richmond and many others. Please also see our online poet retreat Healing Ourselves, Healing the Planet Feb 25-27, 2022; and our free reading group meeting monthly. Entrance to the festival is free.