The 2025 Soda City Poetry Festival will take place on June 27 – 28 at Richland Library in downtown Columbia and will have the theme “One River, One Boat: Celebrating South Carolina Poets.” Former SC Poet Laureate Marjory Wentworth will be the keynote speaker; other events will include regional poetry panels, poetic conversations, writing workshops, and more. SC Humanities supported this festival with a Major Grant.
The Soda City Poetry Festival celebrates the rich heritage, vibrant present, and illustrious future of South Carolina’s poets. For the 2025 Festival, poets from across the state, including the four major regions of the state (the Pee Dee, The Midlands, the Lowcountry and the Upstate), will be featured. Programming will be available for all ages including children and teenagers. The majority of events are free and open to the public.
The full schedule will be available soon. For more information, visit the website at: https://www.sodacitypoetryfestival.com/.