Aerial survey · USDA NAIP · public domainFormer Hot Springs poetry venue across from Bathhouse Row
514B Central Avenue (former), Hot Springs, AR
Research updated May 2026
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All Ages
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Free
Former poetry venue; building remains but not as the Poet's Loft
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Wheelchair OK
Paved Central Avenue sidewalk
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Hot Springs Central Avenue Historic District · Wednesday Night Poetry Venue
The Poet's Loft operated at 514B Central Avenue in Hot Springs, Arkansas, across from Bathhouse Row. For more than a decade, Dr. Paul Tucker and Suzanne Tucker provided the space as a venue for the long-running Wednesday Night Poetry series, documented in the Encyclopedia of Arkansas as one of the longest continuously running poetry events in the United States.
The building sits within the Hot Springs Central Avenue Historic District, the commercial corridor preserved as part of Hot Springs National Park's federal-protected core. The Poet's Loft itself is no longer operating at the address; the Wednesday Night Poetry series moved venues over the years.
The address fronts the historic Bathhouse Row corridor, a remarkable cluster of preserved bathhouse architecture managed by the National Park Service.
Sources
A single first-person account, attributed to a former Poet's Loft worker, describes a Wednesday afternoon before a regular poetry reading. The narrator was awake on a couch with limited vision, saw what appeared to be a friend walk into the kitchen, and felt a pair of female hands grip and hold her down to the couch. The man in the chair across the room reported having seen no one else in the room and confirmed the kitchen was empty when she called out.
The next day, the narrator's friend reportedly confirmed she had been elsewhere — but in the exact clothes the narrator had seen in the kitchen. The account is the only specific incident documented in the Shadowlands entry and is not corroborated by other published reports.
Walk Central Avenue across from Bathhouse Row, where the Poet's Loft hosted Wednesday Night Poetry for more than a decade. The poetry venue is no longer at the location; the address sits within the Hot Springs Central Avenue Historic District, an excellent self-guided stroll past the National Park Service's preserved bathhouses.
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