Italian American Poets: Vittoria repetto, Angelo Verga, Clare Ultimo and Angelo Zeolla will read on Sunday July 22nd at 4pm at the 2nd Annual Poetry Festival on Governor’s Island.
THE POETRY SOCIETY OF NEW YORK PRESENTS
THE 2ND ANNUAL NEW YORK CITY POETRY FESTIVAL
Headliners include Mark Strand, Patricia Smith, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Amber Tamblyn, Valzhyna Mort, Cornelius Eady, Jennifer Michael Hecht, Joanna Furhman, Jennifer L. Knox, CAConrad,
Maggie Nelson, Dorothea Lasky, and Timothy Donnelly
Saturday & Sunday, July 21st & 22nd, 11am-5pm
Governors Island, Colonel’s Row
Pre-sale tickets: $5 for both days
Day-of tickets: $5 per day
New York, NY – The Poetry Society of New York, producers of The Poetry Brothel and publishers of Brothel Books and Quartier Rouge, announce the full lineup and schedule of events for the 2nd Annual New York City Poetry Festival (NYCPF) on July 21st & 22nd. This is an all-outdoor event with a rain date of Saturday, July 28th. The event will include over 50 reading series and 200 poets on its three stages, a Vendor’s Village where booksellers, artists and craftmakers will sell their wares, a VIP Tent sponsored by Brooklyn Brewery for members of The Poetry Society of New York, healthy and delicious food options, poetry-inspired performance and installation art throughout, and for the first time, the Children’s Poetry Festival at NYCPF! Pre-sale tickets are five dollars, and give ticketholders access to the festival on both Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are $5 each day at the door. For full 2012 details or to buy tickets click here.
The following poetry organizations, presses and reading series will be featured at the festival:
A: Argos Books, Augury Books, B: Boundless Tales, Bowery Books, Bow Wow @ BPC, Blue Flower Arts, The Bratty Poets Series, C: Cave Canem, Coldfront, Cornelia Street Graduate Reading Series, COUPLET, D: DDay Productions, Deadly Chaps, Drunknsailor, E: Earshot, Exit Strata, Explosion Proof, F: Feminist Writer’s Organization, Fireside Follies, Futurepoem, G: Gigantic, great weather for media H: The Highwaymen NYC, I: InDigest Magazine, Italian American Writer’s Association, The Inspired Word, K: Kundiman L: Local Word, louderARTS, M: Madhat, The Mom Egg, Moonshot Magazine, My Brother’s Keeper, N: New School Poets Corner, New York Quarterly, No Dear Magazine, O: La Otra Orilla, P: Patasola’s Parlor, PEN American, PeopleHerd, Ping Pong, The Poetry Brothel, Poets House, R: The Red Wheelbarrow Poets Series S: Southern Writers Reading Series, Stain of Poetry, Stonecutter, T: TOTEM, The Truth Urban Theater Group & I Am the Voice, U: Underwater New York, V: Vets and Poets, W: The White Swallows Reading Series
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