Dodge Poetry Festival Student Day 2016

Dodge Poetry High School Day

For the fourth time, the largest poetry event in North America comes to New Jersey’s largest city when the 30th Anniversary Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival return to Newark from Thursday October 20th through Sunday October 23rd, 2016. For four days Newark’s vibrant downtown Arts District will be transformed into a poetry village featuring some of our most celebrated, diverse and vibrant poets and spoken word artists. The  Dodge Poetry Festival Student Day is October 21, 2016.

PROGRAM INCLUDES:

High School Student Day: October 21, 2016, will include readings from the National Student Poets and NJCTE Poetry Medalists.

Poets on Poetry: Festival Poets read and discuss some of the poems and poets that have mattered to them.

Poetry Samplers feature over two dozen poets giving brief readings introduce a wide range of the poets appearing at the Festival.

Conversations: Intimate groups of Festival Poets discuss enduring themes, topical issues and emerging questions evoked by poetry.

Festival Poet Readings feature a dynamic and diverse group of regional and national poets.

Evening Main Stage Readings feature some of the most celebrated poets writing and performing today.

Poetry and music explorations and collaborations featuring poets, musicians and dancers from a wide range of genres.

Special events focusing on themed readings, like “Another Kind of Courage,” a reading by war veterans and their families.

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FESTIVAL DATES: Thursday October 20th through Sunday October 23rd, 2016.