Jame Gates International Poetry Festival (1)
Fri, May 17
|601 S Prospect St
The James Gates Percival International Poetry Festival is an annual FOUR-day art, poetry, and literature event bringing poets and poetry lovers together from across the world.
Time & Location
May 17, 2019, 7:00 PM – May 19, 2019, 11:00 PM
601 S Prospect St, 601 S Prospect St, Galena, IL 61036, USA
About the Event
The Festival commemorates the great American Poet James Gates Percival.
Born in Berlin, Connecticut, James Gate Percival is considered the father of modern American Poetry.
In the 1850s, Percival relocated from New England to work for the American Mining Company in Galena, Illinois and settled in nearby Hazel Green, Wisconsin. He is considered the first poet of Illinois and Wisconsin.
This annual festival is held in the Historic Landmark City of Galena, Illinois, which was founded in 1828 and nestled in the Upper Mississippi River Valley at the Tri-State region of Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin.
The Magnificent Mississippi River is minutes away. The City of Galena and its unique physical location in the pre-historic unglaciated or Driftless Region along the Mississippi River, together with the rolling hills, history, and 19th-Century architecture, has attracted artists, painters, and writers to Galena for over 100 years. For decades, the City of Galena attracted…