Valley International Poetry Festival

The Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival, established in 2008, is a 4-day poetry festival in deep So. Texas held in April for National Poetry Month.

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✨ One Month Away ✨

The countdown begins.

Join us for the 19th Annual Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival (VIPF 2026) — where voices gather, borders blur, and poetry comes alive.

📅 April 23–26, 2026

Four days of readings, workshops, performances, and community.

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19th Annual V.I.P.F. / 19º VIPF
📅 April 23–26, 2026 / 23–26 abril 2026

Featured Poets / Poetas Destacadxs:
Gustavo Hernandez, Luivette Resto, Juania Sueños,
Jessica Helen Lopez, Kenan Phillip, Jeff Knorr.

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VIPF 2026 is only 6 months away, and we are accepting workshop and panel discussion proposals. Please send your workshop or panel information to [email protected] for consideration.

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Submit your poems to https://t.co/YN4BiO3ocV. Visit the website for guidelines.

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Register for VIPF 2026 April 23-26, 2026 at Register at https://t.co/YN4BiO3ocV

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Kenan Phillip is a Dominica-born poet living along the Texas-Mexico border, where he is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

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Juania Sueños is a queer Chicanx writer, educator, translator, mother, & community advocate. She co-founded and is an editor at Infrarrealista Review. She's the author of the hybrid poetry collection topography of a border / line bird (Mouthfeel Press, 2025)

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Gustavo Hernandez is the author of the poetry collection Flower Grand First (Moon Tide Press, 2021) and Bachelor (FlowerSong Press, 2025). In January 2024, Hernandez was appointed Poet Laureate of Orange County, California.

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Luivette Resto is an award-winning poet, a mother of three revolutionary humans, and a middle school English teacher. She was born in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, and was proudly raised in the Bronx, New York. She is a CantoMundo and Macondo Fellow.

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We're gearing up for the Rio Grande Valley Poetry Festival, and we need your support to make it unforgettable! Every donation helps us create a space for voices to shine. 💖 Please share! https://t.co/zZYYcUlzdT

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Boundless 2026: the anthology of the Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival is now taking submissions.

Boundless 2026: la antología del Festival Internacional de Poesía del Valle del Río Grande ahora aceptando envíos de poesía.

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Boundless 2025: the official anthology of the 16th Annual Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival.

Coming April 24, 2025, pre-order your copy today!

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Recibimos una gran cantidad de propuestas para nuestra antología Boundless. Extendemos las inscripciones en español y otros idiomas distintos al inglés y de poetas juveniles hasta el 31 de enero. Por favor, comparta la información

Enviar a [email protected]

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We received a great amount of submissions for our Boundless anthology. We are extending submissions in Spanish and other languages other than English and from youth poets until January 31, 2025 at midnight. Please share and spread the info

Submit to [email protected]

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VIPF 2025: The Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival
Join us in 2025, April 24-April 27, 2025
Register here: https://t.co/gGxnnxECp9

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Plan on joining us in 2025

April 24-27, 2025

For our 18th annual Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival