YAKIMA COFFEEHOUSE POETRY CONTEST
The 2022 Yakima Coffeehouse Poetry Contest Reading Event was held
Thursday, April 21, 2022
Stay tuned for more information on this and the 2023 event and some of the featured winners of our annual contest. If you missed the even, the chapbooks are available to the general public for a $10 donation to YCP. All contest participants, win or not, received a chapbook as part of their participation.
This event is offered either online (via ZOOM™) OR IN PERSON!
The public event is held at the new Larson Gallery, 1606 W. Nob Hill Blvd. April 2022 was the first time in over two years that we gathered together in person. (Though we asked that people mask up and bring proof of vaccination if they do attend live.)
For any 2022 Contest questions, please contact us at:
YCPoetrycontest2022@gmail.com
The event has a history, one that got its start in 1994 as the brainchild of Elizabeth Herres Miller, a former executive director of Allied Arts of Yakima who thought a literary event would complement the nonprofit’ s visual arts calendar. The contest quickly caught on. In 2006, a second event was later added: “Open Mic Night,” a monthly spoken-word forum for local poets to read their own poetry. Unfortunately, while the fortunes of these poetry events waxed, those of Allied Arts waned. The nonprofit closed its doors in December 2013.
The 2021 chapbook of winners, “twenty-sixth” are available for a $10 donation (plus $2.50 for postage) payable to YCP or at Inklings Bookshop in Yakima. This year’s and earlier chapbooks are still available by contacting Ed Stover at 509-833-8577 or via Email.
2019 Yakima Coffeehouse Poetry Contest Photo Gallery
Tom Pier Prize went to Terry Martin.
2017 Yakima Coffeehouse Poetry Contest Photo Gallery
2016 Yakima Coffeehouse Poetry Contest Photo Gallery
