STOCKTON - The Haggin Museum is staging a part of Stockton’s first-ever community poetry festival - Stockton Word Feast - featuring a smorgasbord of local poets, writers and artists on Saturday, April 7, from 12:30 to 4 p.m. Admission is free

Explore different styles and traditions of poetry through readings, workshops and interactive activities.

This collaboration between the museum and With Our Words, Inc. – Stockton’s home-grown youth literary arts and slam poetry organization – offers up an array of performances and activities:

•Visitors can participate in a Spanish-language poetry workshop with Martin Camps, as well as sample poetry from Camille Norton, both nationally known poets and University of the Pacific professors.

•Youth can experience a multi-art synthesis with Artists Anonymous, a group of student artists from University of the Pacific who specialize in diverse media.

•Aspiring writers can learn about the business of being a writer with Monika Rose of Manzanita Press.

•Teachers can learn how to incorporate poetry, spoken word and performance in the curriculum with the nationally recognized educators from the Brave New Voices network.

•The Stockton Word Feast will also feature an original stage production for children by Bronche Tayson (author of Dam/Aged) featuring nontraditional casting and focusing on a contemporary Easter theme.

•Hip Hop You Don’t Stop Reading, a project of With Our Words, Inc., Hip Hop Congress and Fat CityBooks, will be on hand with a free book give-away for elementary and middle school students.

Admission to the museum is free on this first Saturday of the month and all the activities are included. More details are available at stocktonwordfeast.wordpress.com. For questions, contact Lisa Cooperman at (209) 940-6315 or education@hagginmuseum.org. The museum is located at Victory Park, 1201 N. Pershing Ave., accessed directly from Interstate 5 in Stockton.

This is the first of a series of poetry events around the city held in conjunction with Delta College, University of the Pacific, the Marian Jacobs Literary Foundation and the Heritage Writers group. Additional events include:

•San Joaquin Writers’ Workshop, Saturday, April 14, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Delta College, call (209) 954-5110:

•Author Maxine Hong Kingston workshop and talk on Saturday, April 14, 1 p.m., Delta College, call (209) 954-5110

•Poet Richard Berengarten, Wednesday, April 18, 3:30 p.m., University of the Pacific.