10th Annual John Milton Poetry Festival, Milton DE.

If you're on the pennisula and you'd like a great sampling of the local and impressive literary scene check out the John Milton Poetry Fest. There's Dogfish Head Beer, and Milton fetaures a hip local bookstore, a cozy pub and quaint Victorian architecture.

Again here's the official release:

WORKSHOPS, EXHIBITIONS, AND SPECIAL EVENTS10th Annual John Milton Memorial Poetry Festival, December 6 and 7, Milton Theatre, 110 Union Street, Milton, DE. Festivities on Saturday begin at 12:30 and include: a reading from Milton's "Ode on the Morning of Christ's Naticity" followed by a performance by the Salisbury University Chamber Choir; an editors and publishers panel at 2:00 pm featuring Beltway Poetry Quarterly, the Delaware Poetry Review, The Broadkill Review, Delmarva Quarterly, Bay Oak Publishers, Delmarva Review, Dreamstreets, and the Schuylkill Valley Journal; and readings by the winner of the 6th annual Dogfish Head Poetry Prize and other poets in the afternoon and evening. Sunday features a reading by Milton public school poets, and a 3:30 dedication of a life-sized bronze statue of John Milton in Mill Park on Wagamon's Pond. Free Admission. http://www.miltontheatre.org/

But the release doesn' t really do this fine festival justice. The mood is jovial, warm and everybody has a good ear. Come drink coffee, beer, toast Milton, the old bastard, and eat some art.

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