So I missed the Dodge Poetry Festival this weekend, but I”m hoping for next year. In the meantime, I”ve kept up with some of the excitement by following along with what”s coming out of there in a few blogs. Here”s a taste of what you would have seen and heard if you”d made it to [...]

The function of art in general and of poetry in particular has not been or is to solve the fundamental problems of men and women. Its function is to remind us, from an ever new perspective, the existence of these problems. And our potential to solve them. Poetry and art are there to widen our [...]

The Dodge Poetry Festival is the largest poetry event in North America and it is the most energetic, festive, and high-spirited celebration of poetry I have ever seen. (Billy Collins) If you haven”t already made your plans, you have five days to get out to Dodge. No, now out OF Dodge – TO Dodge. The [...]

From emdashes, this bit from the NYTimes Stanley Kunitz, the former poet laureate of the United States who died in May at 100, will be celebrated in a free memorial tribute on Sept. 20 at the 92nd Street Y. Among those scheduled to reminisce and read from his work are the poets Mark Doty, Sharon [...]