This weekend, downtown Carrboro hosts the 2014 West End Poetry Festival, bringing together local poets along with nationally known writers.

The event gets under way on Friday at 6:30 with a reception and a reading at Flyleaf Books – but the big event is Saturday, from noon to 8:30, at Carrboro’s Century Center. On the agenda are workshops, panel sessions, an open mic, another reception, and finally, a reading featuring former North Carolina poet laureate Cathy Smith Bowers and Carrboro’s current poet laureate, Celisa Steele.

View the complete schedule of events.

Celisa Steele joined Ron Stutts on the air Friday to talk about the West End Poetry Festival.

That was Carrboro poet laureate Celisa Steele, talking with Ron Stutts about the West End Poetry Festival. Again, it all happens at the Century Center at the corner of Greensboro and Weaver Street, from noon to 8:30 today.