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Poetry Friday: Festival Video – Eavan Boland

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Our Poetry Friday featured Festival video this week is a reading by Eavan Boland at the 2014 Dodge Poetry Festival. Eavan reads her poem “The Lost Art of Letter Writing.” For more information about Eavan Boland, check out our blog.     *** … Continue reading

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2014 Featured Festival Poet: Eavan Boland

Posted on by Martin Farawell, Program Director, Poetry

For those of you lucky enough to have heard poet Eavan Boland at the 2012 Festival, you already know what a powerful poet and reader she is, and what an engaging and eloquent speaker. If you’re unfamiliar with her work, … Continue reading

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Poetry Friday: Eavan Boland, 2012 Festival Poet

Posted on by Martin Farawell, Director, Poetry Program

Eavan Boland’s “Quarantine” offers an ideal introduction to her poetry. Toward the end of the poem she writes, “There is no place here for the inexact/praise of the easy graces and sensuality of the body.”  Boland refuses to gloss over … Continue reading

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Poetry Friday: What do you mean by “giving voice”?

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Lately you may have heard us referring to Giving Voice, a series of poetry exploration groups and part of our Clearing the Spring, Tending the Fountain program for New Jersey teachers. But “giving voice” is also an overarching theme of … Continue reading

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Poetry Friday: 2012 Festival Main Stage Reading Line Up

Posted on by Rebecca Gambale

Thursday Evening October 11th Poetry Sampler Amiri Baraka Eavan Boland Henri Cole Nikky Finney Terrance Hayes Juan Felipe Herrera Jane Hirshfield Fanny Howe Kurtis Lamkin Dorianne Laux Ada Limón Thomas Lux Gregory Orr Patricia Smith Arthur Sze Natasha Trethewey C.K. … Continue reading

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