DAY 1 New York | New Jersey | Pennsylvania | Delaware | Maryland | District Of Columbia | Virginia | West Virginia | Kentucky | Day 2 Ohio | Indiana | Illinois | Iowa | Missouri | DAY 3 Kansas | Colorado | New Mexico | Arizona | California
Each year the L.A. Poetry Beach Festival will start in NYC.
64 cities / 20 states
Hop on the Coast to Coast Poetry Train. We depart September 20 at 06.45 am from New York and in just 76 hours / three days we pick up as many poets as possible in 64 big cities and small town in 20 different states before we arrive in poetry paradise Los Angeles at September 23rd 08.00 am.
Zin
All poets on the Poetry Train can submit for free a poem for our special Poetry Train zin. Poets have to use one of Bukowski favorite typewriters The Underwood Portable.
Itinerary
This is the 3.402 miles long route of Poetry Train 2023 from September 20 – 23.

The stops
This is the route of Poetry Train 2023.
City | Day | Miles | Time (am/pm) | City / Station | State |
1 | Wed 20 Sep | 0 | 6:45 am | New York City | NY |
2 | 10 | 7:13 am | Newark | NJ | |
3 | 58 | 7:40 am | Trenton | ||
4 | 90 | 8:16 am | Philadelphia | PA | |
5 | 116 | 8:41 am | Wilmington | DE | |
6 | 185 | 9:29 am | Baltimore | MD | |
7 | 225 | 11:10 am | Washington | DC | |
8 | 233 | 11:29 am | Alexandria | VA | |
9 | 257 | 12:02 pm | Manassas | ||
10 | 292 | 12:35 pm | Culpeper | ||
11 | 339 | 1:55 pm | Charlottesville | ||
12 | 379 | 2:57 pm | Staunton | ||
13 | 437 | 4:05 pm | Clifton Forge | WV | |
14 | 471 | 5:00 pm | White Sulphur Springs | ||
15 | 496 | 5:31 pm | Alderson | ||
16 | 516 | 6:01 pm | Hinton | ||
17 | 539 | 6:31 pm | Prince | ||
18 | 550 | 6:47 pm | Thurmond | ||
19 | 552 | 7:38 pm | Montgomery | ||
20 | 618 | 8:10 pm | Charleston | ||
21 | 667 | 9:35 pm | Huntington | ||
22 | 682 | 9:58 pm | Ashland | KY | |
23 | 712 | 10:41 pm | So. Portsmouth-So. Shore | ||
24 | 765 | 11:36 pm | Maysville | ||
25 | Thu 21 Sep | 827 | 1:03 am | Cincinnati | OH |
26 | 893 | 3:05 am | Connersville | IN | |
27 | 950 | 4:44 am | Indianapolis | ||
28 | 997 | 7:28 am | Crawfordsvile | ||
29 | 1024 | 7:36 am | Lafayette | ||
30 | 1071 | 7:40 am | Rensselaer | ||
31 | 1117 | 8:43 am | Dyer | ||
32 | 1146 | 10:20 am / 3:15 pm | Chicago | IL | |
33 | 1174 | 3:50 PM | Naperville | ||
34 | 1229 | 4:39 PM | Mendota | ||
35 | 1250 | 5:01 PM | Princeton | ||
36 | 1308 | 5:53 PM | Galesburg | ||
37 | 1366 | 6:57 PM | Fort Madison | IA | |
38 | 1444 | 8:06 PM | La Plata | MO | |
39 | 1583 | 10:55 pm | Kansas City | ||
40 | Fri 22 Sep | 1623 | 12:32 AM | Lawrence | KS |
41 | 1649 | 1:09 AM | Topeka | ||
42 | 1784 | 3:25 AM | Newton | ||
43 | 1763 | 4:00 AM | Hutchinson | ||
44 | 1928 | 6:00 AM | Dodge City | ||
45 | 1978 | 6:45 AM | Garden City | ||
46 | 2078 | 7:06 AM | Lamar | CO | |
47 | 2131 | 8:30 AM | La Junta | ||
48 | 2212 | 9:50 AM | Trinidad | ||
49 | 2235 | 10:56 AM | Raton | NM | |
50 | 2346 | 12:38 PM | Las Vegas | ||
51 | 2411 | 2:24 PM | Lamy | ||
52 | 2478 | 4:40 pm | Albuquerque | ||
53 | 2651 | 7:03 PM | Gallup | ||
54 | 2779 | 7:45 PM | Winslow | AZ | |
55 | 2837 | 8:52 PM | Flagstaff | ||
57 | 3010 | 11:41 PM | Kingman | ||
58 | Sat 23 Sep | 3077 | 12:44 AM | Needles | CA |
59 | 3246 | 3:34 AM | Barstow | ||
60 | 3283 | 4:13 AM | Victorville | ||
61 | 3330 | 5:37 AM | San Bernardino | ||
62 | 3346 | 5:48 AM | Riverside | ||
63 | 3376 | 6:29 AM | Fullerton | ||
64 | 3402 | 8:15 AM | Los Angeles |