Left: Our 2026 annual poetry magazine The Walk is available for preorder and will be available for sale at the event on Sunday, September 20 and includes poetry from all 24 poets. Cover art is by Ellen Kombiyil, co-winner of the Raleigh Review‘s 2025 Geri Digiorno Prize. Right: Cassandra Dallett reads at the Big Easy during the 2025 Petaluma Poetry Walk. Photo by Debbie Wilson.

The Petaluma Poetry Walk
Sunday, September 20, 2026, from 11am-7pm
petalumapoetrywalk.org

The 29th annual Petaluma Poetry Walk is FREE, day-long celebration of live readings in the spaces of downtown Petaluma. The event features 24 poets sharing their work across eight local, walkable venues. Come for one or more readings, or stay for them all. Plan your day with the 2026 Event Schedule here.

Our 2026 annual poetry magazine The Walk will be available at the event and includes poetry from all 24 poets. Cover art is by Ellen Kombiyil, co-winner of the Raleigh Review‘s 2025 Geri Digiorno Prize. Preorder here.

Readings At The Petaluma Historical Library & Museum
Translator Poets
Sunday, September 20, 2026
3:00 – 4:00 PM
Petaluma Historical Library & Museum
20 4th Street (Corner of 4th and B Street)
Free

Pat Nolan

Pat Nolan is the author of over a dozen books of poetry and four novels. His poetry, prose, and translations have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including The Paris Review, Rolling Stone, and Poems For The Millennium. His most recent book, Ode To Sunset, a fiction, was published in 2025. He lives in Monte Rio.

Photo by Brian Howlett

Adrián Arias

Adrián Arias is a poet and visual artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has published five poetry books in Peru and co-created the tarot deck Tarot en Pandemia y Revolución. His practice spans murals, installations, performance, rooted in Moche heritage and social justice. He is currently translating Mar de palabras para amar. adrianarias.com

Photo by Joma

Francesca Bell

Francesca Bell is the author of Bright Stain and What Small Sound. She translated Whoever Drowned Here: New and Selected Poems by Max Sessner and co-translated Palestinian poet Shatha Abu Hnaish’s A Love That Hovers Like a Bedeviling Mosquito. Her poems have been translated into Italian, Hungarian, and Czech. She teaches poetry and embroidery at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center. francescabellpoet.com

Photo by Emily Petrie