5 BOROUGHS. 2 DAYS. ONE CITY.
GREAT WEATHER FOR MEDIA IS EXCITED TO RETURN AS A GOLD SPONSOR AT THE 2022 NEW YORK CITY POETRY FESTIVAL
Join The Poetry Society of New York at Colonels Row on sunny Governors Island September 10th and 11th at the free-to-attend, 11th Annual New York City Poetry Festival. Enjoy local vendors, delicious food, and iconic headliners at the largest free gathering of the poetry community in the country
We will be at our book table throughout the festival and will be on the Algonquin stage at 2:30 pm on the Saturday.
Our featured readers: Joanna Acevedo, Robert Gibbons, Mario José Pagán Morales, and Yuko Otomo.
Joanna, Robert, and Yuko all have work in our brand-new anthology, Arriving at a Shoreline. Mario is the author of the poetry collection, Receta (great weather for MEDIA, 2022)
The Governors Island ferry is free before noon, or $4 after. The schedule and visitor info can be found at the Governors Island website. Advance reservations for the outgoing trip are strongly encouraged. Visitors no longer need to choose a return time when booking ferry tickets. You may leave the Island on any ferry you choose, no reservation required.
The festival is free and there is no need to register in advance.
Further details can be found at the NYC Poetry Festival website.
Joanna Acevedo, Robert Gibbons, Mario José Pagán Morales, Yuko Otomo
Press Release:
“After a smashing success in 2021, the Poetry Festival is back and bigger than ever; the Poetry Society of New York is adding a fourth stage to accommodate for their influx of artist applications. This year, the festival’s itinerary will feature readings from four mainstages—The Brinkley, The Blackbird, The White Horse, and The Algonquin—as well as recurring festival institutions: the Poetry Brothel stage, the Youth Poetry Festival, the Ring of Daisies Open Mic, and immersive art headlined by the Poetry Society’s own Milk Press Gallery.
The four mainstages will house 30-minute readings from over ninety tri-state area based literary organizations, including Cavankerry Press, Slapering Hol Press, and Wilkes University’s MFA Program. From 3:00pm - 4:00pm on both Saturday and Sunday, The Brinkley will feature our dazzling, internationally-renowned headliners: Mahogany Browne (Vinyl Moon, Chlorine Sky, Woke: A Young Poets Call to Justice), Major Jackson (The Absurd Man, Roll Deep, Holding Company), Sharon Olds (Pulitzer Prize Winning Stag’s Leap, Arias), and Monica de la Torre (Repetition Nineteen, The Happy End/All Welcome).
As per its mission statement, the Poetry Festival is one of the most accessible large-scale events New York has to offer. Not only is it completely free to attend (besides a ferry fee of $2.75), its programming was specifically designed to cater to audiences of all ages no matter their knowledge of poetry. While our 18+ audiences can submerge themselves in The Poetry Society’s famed Poetry Brothel, a literary cabaret with the glitz and glamour of the 1920s and the bodily autonomy of the 2020s, toddlers, teens, and everyone in between can flex their artistic muscles at The Youth Poetry Festival. Organized by Writopia, the Billion Oyster Project, and the Poetry Society, this year’s Youth Poetry Festival—a highlight of every Poetry Festival—is specially centered around sustainability, environmental agency, and imagination.
If being enveloped in poetry plants in you an intense longing to share your own work, have no fear; the Ring of Daisies Open Mic is here! Devised to bring together as many poets as possible to foster community and collaboration, the Ring of Daisies Open Mic is a welcoming, safe space for any artist—even those completely new to the poetry world—to perform inside a giant ring of daisies. The Open Mic will run approximately from 11:00am - 3:00pm and 4:00pm - 7:00pm on Saturday, and 11:00am - 2:30pm on Sunday. The Poetry Festival strives to create an enveloping poetry wonderland in which poetry has no restrictions or bounds. This would by no means be possible without the festival's hundreds of visual, installation, and performance artists. At this year’s Poetry Festival, PSNY’s Milk Press Gallery will be featuring daring New York-based artists who specialize in everything from soft sculpture to lighting design. Imagine chambers containing an intentional mix of poetry and visual art, performance and lighting design, climate control and music, fragrances and soundscapes, all unified in their mission to awaken your aesthetic impulse. These wonderful artists are constructing a new universe on Governors Island, and we can’t wait to see what they will dream up.
Lastly, the Poetry Society will be launching two new initiatives at this year’s festival: an interactive workshopping series entitled Poetry Picnic in the Park, led by PSNY staff and Yvonne de St. Croix, and Echo of Voices/Eco de Voces, a bilingual, hour-long micro-festival at The White Horse featuring live translations by Madeline Millan and her company. We can’t wait to see you at PSNY’s most ambitious celebration of poetry yet.
To learn more about the New York City Poetry Festival, you may visit Newyorkcitypoetryfestival.com