Newark, NJ (PRWEB) August 17, 2012
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation announced the complete program of over 100 events, poetic and full list of poets, who perform in the 14th biennial Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, presented in collaboration with the New Jersey Performing Arts center and the city of Newark, NJ from 11 to 14 October 2012. Today also debut in the Dodge Poetry app where users will be able for the first time to plan your Festival schedule on their smart phones and other mobile devices. Dodge Poetry Festival is the largest poetry event in North America. Word Stock Called by The New York Times, viewers have the opportunity to hear performances and interact with dozens of the world?s greatest poets very different backgrounds and styles. Single day passes for the festival are already on sale in http://www.njpac.org and NJPAC box office, as the weekend and four days pass.
Poets
festival is back to former U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine (2011-12), and the newly appointed U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey (2012 -), winner of the Pulitzer Prize CK Williams, poet, musician, Kurtis Lamkin, National Book Award winner Terrance Hayes and Thomas Lux, and TS Eliot winner Jane Hirshfield. Among the poets create their Dodge Poetry Festival debuts this year are: Pulitzer Prize finalist Henri Cole, Chilean National Literature Award Raul Zurita, Ireland?s leading woman poet Eavan Boland, California Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, National Book Award winner Nikky Finney, Fanny Howe, and Gregory Orr. Back to the festival for the second year in a row, Newark resident and founder of the Black Arts Movement Amiri Baraka, and National Book Award finalist Dorianne Laux. The festival will also present the results of four times World premiere brand Grand National Slam champion Patricia Smith?s book Blood Dazzler length sequences of Hurricane Katrina, set Wynton Marsalis at the Octoroon Balls string quartet and performed by members of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra.
highlight of the festival will be Poetry Sampler will be held Thursday evening, 11 October offers viewers the opportunity to hear 25 poets Natasha Trethewey included, Nikky Finney, Terrance Hayes, and others, provide a brief, back-to-back measurements in two hours and a half years, an event unparalleled in any other meets poetry.
In addition to readings and performances, all poets Festival participate in discussions and other multi-poet events. Of particular note, several sessions entitled Reading and conversation, in which a group of poets will read their work and dedication in the question and answer period with the audience. Other topics for discussion are poetry and pride, which examines the impact of modern gays poets, poetry, public life, including two pairs of poets and Lost and Found in Translation, with two Latin American poets and translators to discuss these challenges and preserve the original intentions feeling when the line is translated into another language.
Another highlight of the festival will be an increased Newark native Amiri Baraka, who in addition to participating in several events throughout the festival, will participate in the discussion of 45 anniversary of Newark historian and Rutgers University Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor Clement Price, who sits in President Obama?s Advisory Committee on Historic Preservation.
NJPAC
anchored events, the festival will transform downtown Newark to the village of poetry, with many performances and readings of alternating venues and cultural sites in Newark, all within walking distance of downtown, including Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, First Baptist Peddie Memorial Church New Jersey Historical Society, Newark Museum, North Star Academy and Trinity & St Philips Cathedral. Sometimes, during the festival, ten or more separate phases while bringing events for audiences from 100 to 2,000 people.
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Dodge Poetry Festival since the first in 1986, took the opportunity to see and hear some of the icons era poets whove had a tremendous impact on the people behind them, as Philip Levine, CK Williams, Eavan Boland and said Martin Fara Well, Festival Director. But what has always made this Festival is an exciting opportunity to discover new voices, to learn more of American poetry, as of late Adrienne Rich people who are out there. There is a sense of community poetry really is nationally and internationally, that it applies to all borders, and invites everyone from every background, from the expert to the person who has not yet discovered how much poetry can speak to them, is the festival a memorable experience what made. Dodge Poetry and staff worked very hard to connect the line to the 2012 Festival which will keep the tradition alive and dead.
We are proud to welcome many of the world?s greatest poets and their fans for the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in October, said John Schreiber, president and CEO of NJPAC. Dodge Poetry Festival draws a diverse and enthusiastic audience to Newark, and we are happy to greet thousands of tourists who want to share in this extraordinary event.
response to the 2010 Festival in Newark was outstanding, said Christopher Daggett, president and CEO Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. Users, who came to New York for the first time discovered his beautiful performance spaces, churches and art galleries, museums and restaurants. And the people of Newark, could not be more friendly. We are grateful and proud that the city of Newark and New Jersey Performing Arts Center as our partners. We are excited about the 2012 Festival, delighted that Dodges decade-long investment in poetry has allowed us to play a small role in the rebirth of a great American city. We look forward to long term, in our new home.
Newark was home and inspiration for countless major artists, and the success of the 2010 Festival, they were very happy to be welcoming Dodge Poetry Festival back to our city and world-class New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Dodge Poetry Festival is the largest poetry festival in North America, and guests from around the world will have the opportunity to hear the best music of poetry in some of the most important places Newark?s culture and history. This festival will be an obvious place Newark?s status as entertainment and art, said Newark Mayor Cory A. Booker.
Known for great ethnic and cultural diversity, Downtown Newark is located three miles from Newark Liberty International Airport, one of the largest international airports in the United States. Newark town center is easily accessible by public transportation via Amtrak, New Jersey Transit (NJT) and the path of the train, and is situated in the center of the New York metropolitan area. This year, as a key element Foundations commitment to a healthier environment Dodge, the festival will work with NJT to public transport more affordable for festival participants. NJT will bring $ 10 ticket vouchers for all participants in the two sides of NJT station Newark Penn Station. NJT $ 10 tickets purchased by NJPAC when purchasing Festival online, by phone or at the box office. Festival can be shown instead of the usual cable fare and can be used to travel by train from Newark Penn Station to NJPAC, offering door-to-door for festival participants.
Festival Dodge is electric, legendary and necessary ? the most exuberant, far-ranging, wide-ranging collection of American poetry
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