Category Archives: Poetry 2012 Festival
Poetry Friday: Festival Photo Highlights
November 16, 2012We’re so excited to have photos of the 2012 Festival to share with you. Whether you weren’t able to make it this year, or you’d just like to remember some highlights from your time at the Festival, we’ve collected some … Continue reading
Giving Thanks for a Successful 2012 Dodge Poetry Festival
November 9, 2012From October 11th through the 14th, the city of Newark was full of people from thirty-four states and several foreign countries who’d come together to celebrate the written and spoken word. During those four days and in the weeks since, we’ve received … Continue reading
Poetry Friday: Festival Updates
October 5, 2012In the final days before the 2012 Dodge Poetry Festival, we’re posting the tools you’ll need to have the best experience possible in Newark’s Downtown Arts District. Here are some new details we have added to let you plan your … Continue reading
Poetry and Music
October 2, 2012Blood Dazzler at the Octoroon Balls with Patricia Smith and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Saturday, October 6th at 4:00PM Bethany Baptist Church 275 West Market Street Newark, NJ 07103 Poet Patricia Smith will read selections from Blood Dazzler, an … Continue reading
Poetry Friday Guest Blog: Greening the Dodge Poetry Festival
September 28, 2012Let’s face it – festivals and big events produce a lot of waste. Think of all the single use items, like plastic and Styrofoam, we toss in the trash instead of recycling, reusing or even entirely avoid using. Everything that … Continue reading
Poetry: Raúl Zurita, 2012 Festival Poet
September 25, 2012Raúl Zurita, winner of the National Literature Prize of Chile and the Pablo Neruda Prize, is one of the most widely acclaimed Latin American poets writing today. He is also one of the most innovative, experimental and controversial. But when … Continue reading
Poetry Friday: Larissa Szporluk, 2012 Festival Poet
September 21, 2012“What inspires me now is my own impatience. I almost feel hatred now for casual language. The words I want to use have to be sharp, energetic. No more meandering.” –Larissa Szporluk, in an interview with Beth Woodcome for Perihelion … Continue reading
Poetry Friday: C.K. Williams, 2012 Festival Poet
September 14, 2012If the voice in our heads that comments on our experiences, our reactions, our feelings, that talks us into our transgressions and later berates us for them, that fears, is ashamed of its fear, that tries to encourage us, then … Continue reading
Poetry: Gregory Pardlo, 2012 Festival Poet
September 10, 2012“I do believe that somewhere in our language, in our performance of speech, that all the background noise of ambition and criticism and judgment can sort of melt away and what’s left is just human interaction.” Gregory Pardlo, PEN Poetry … Continue reading
Poetry Friday: Natasha Trethewey, 2012 Festival Poet
September 7, 2012There are poets who take an aesthetic position that does not include history, politics or social issues as subject matter for their poetry. They maintain this position because they are more interested in poems that go inward, explore the inner … Continue reading
Poetry Friday: Arthur Sze, 2012 Festival Poet
August 31, 2012Arthur Sze’s poems, like those of the haiku masters he translated early in his career, almost always offer us an immediate impression–a clear image, a question to ponder, an emotional resonance–on first reading. But we also recognize there is much … Continue reading
Poetry: Patricia Smith, 2012 Festival Poet
August 27, 2012Patricia Smith is that rare poet who has succeeded in both the realms of spoken word and published poetry. Four-time National Individual Grand-Slam Champion (an unsurpassed achievement), her work has appeared in Poetry, Paris Review, Best American Poetry and many … Continue reading
Poetry Friday: Gregory Orr, 2012 Festival Poet
August 24, 2012Gregory Orr would never assert, as W. H. Auden did, that “poetry makes nothing happen.” More likely he’d counter that permanent retirement for this over-quoted (out of context) phrase is long overdue. For Orr, poetry is crucial and transformative. It … Continue reading