Author Archives: Rebecca Gambale
Poetry & Democracy
February 22, 2019We’re so excited to announce our free, public event coming up on Saturday, March 23 in Morristown: What Is It, Then, Between Us?: Poetry & Democracy. Each March, every member organization of the national Poetry Coalition offers programming related to … Continue reading
Tips for Submitting to the Dodge Poetry Festival
February 1, 2019Photo by Alex Towle, 2018 Have you ever attended the Dodge Poetry Festival and wondered, How do those poets get chosen to be up there? Are you a poet who wants to read at the Festival and is wondering how … Continue reading
Here’s a free, week-long online poetry retreat just for you
April 13, 2018Here in New Jersey, it finally feels like spring. The last bits of snow have melted, we’re shedding our winter coats, and buds are starting to pop up in the grass and on branches. What better day for us to open … Continue reading
Exciting Poet Line-Up for Whose Body? Celebration and Reclamation
March 9, 2018This week, we kicked off the Whose Body? Project with videos of Ada Limón and Jericho Brown reading their poems “The Vulture & the Body” and “I am a Virus.” We’ll be posting two videos each week for the rest of the month, by poets Aimee Nezhukumatathil, C. Bain, Rachel Wiley, Rigoberto González, Priscilla Orr, and Joseph Millar. … Continue reading
Whose Body? Celebration & Reclamation Event on March 24th
February 23, 2018As part of the National Poetry Coalition’s programming initiative, Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Poetry & the Body, Dodge Poetry is launching the month-long Whose Body? Project next month. Whose Body? is a question that arose time and … Continue reading
Celebrating Poetry with Newark High Schools
October 27, 2017The Dodge Poetry team thought long and hard about how we could sustain the energy and excitement from the 2016 Dodge Poetry Festival in Newark this year, because of our deep commitment to and special fondness for the city. Having … Continue reading
Poetry Friday: Join Us in Military Park This Thursday!
July 15, 2017Newark Voices Poetry Reading & Open Mic Thursday, July 20th at 12:30 Military Park in Newark This Thursday, July 20th join Dodge Poetry in partnership with Newark’s Military Park for Lunchtime Poems: A Summer Poetry Reading Series. Thursday’s reading will feature a … Continue reading
Carpe NPM
April 21, 2017There’s just about one week left in April; if you’re looking for ways to savor the end of National Poetry Month, check out the Academy of American Poets’ 30 ways to celebrate national poetry month. This list includes suggestions ranging … Continue reading
April is the Coolest Month
April 14, 2017Photo by Giulia van Pelt “Poetry…flexes muscles you don’t use often enough. Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand.” –Ray Bradbury Celebrating … Continue reading
Poetry Friday: Festival Videos – Richard Blanco
April 1, 2016Today’s featured Festival film is a reading by Richard Blanco from the 2014 Dodge Poetry Festival. Enjoy his poems “América” and “Mother Picking Produce.” For more information about Richard, check out our blog about him, visit his website, or follow him on … Continue reading
Happy National Poetry Month!
April 1, 2016For the twentieth year in a row, April is National Poetry Month. In celebration, we will be posting an Instagram every day this month featuring a quote from a poem that we find beautiful, moving, funny, or otherwise powerful. Each piece … Continue reading
Poetry Friday: Festival Video – Gary Snyder
March 11, 2016Today’s featured Festival film is a reading by Gary Snyder from the 2014 Dodge Poetry Festival. Enjoy poems “Mu Chi’s Persimmons,” “Why California Will Never Be Like Tuscany,” “Chiura Obata’s Moon,” and “A Letter to M.A. Who Lives Far Away.” For more … Continue reading
2014 Featured Festival Poet: Benjamin Alire Sáenz
September 20, 2014Much of my work has to do with the self and the conflicts with the external world. I was never just at war with myself—I was at war with the world I live in, and that was my true subject. … Continue reading
Nine High School Students. Two Poets. And the Dreams of Hundreds.
November 1, 2013On October 19th, our “Before I Die…” project culminated with a performance at Gallery Aferro. High school students from Newark joined two Dodge Poets to take the writings from the wall and craft them into a new performance. They worked … Continue reading