For Annual Weekend-Long Festival
Yonkers NY –The largest free poetry festival in the East returns to Sarah Lawrence College on Friday, April 27. Organized entirely by students, the Fourth Annual Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival will feature more than fifty readers throughout the weekend, including Yusef Komunyakaa, Paul Muldoon, Susan Howe, and Cornelius Eady. Attendees will take part in craft talks, receptions, book signings, and an open mic. The Festival closes Sunday, April 29 with a performance by the Irish poet Muldoon’s “three-car garage band,” Rackett. For more information, please call 914-395-2412 or visit http://www.slc.edu/poetry-festival.
The list of esteemed and prize-winning readers also includes Victor Hernandez Cruz, Sonia Sanchez, Philip Levine, Kimiko Hahn, Srikanth Reddy, Richard Siken, Rebecca Wolff, Catherine Barnett, and Larissa Szporluk, as well as Sarah Lawrence College writing faculty members Vijay Seshadri, Matthea Harvey, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Cathy Park Hong, and Jeffrey McDaniel. Each poet is paired with a graduate and an undergraduate, who open with brief readings of their own.
The festival is sponsored by Poets & Writers Magazine, through the New York State Council for the Arts, and Sarah Lawrence College.
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