PATTI SMITH
This year’s edition of the biennial Dodge Poetry Festival — North America’s largest poetry festival — will take place at NJPAC and other Newark venues, Oct. 15-17, with the legendary poet and rock musician Patti Smith, U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze, Pulitzer Prize winner Tyehimba Jess, and others. Tickets will go on sale in June.
Smith will appear in an event titled “Patti Smith: Songs and Stories.” The time and place of this event this has not been announced yet.
Among the other events will be a “Def Poetry Reunion,” featuring poets who appeared on the 2002-2007 HBO series “Russell Simmons presents Def Poetry” (better known as “Def Poetry Jam”).
In addition to Smith, Sze and Jess, festival participants will include Elizabeth Acevedo, Kimberly M. Blaeser, Stephanie Burt, Anthony Cody, Meg Day, Terrance Hayes, Adrian Matejka, Carol Moldaw, Aja Monet, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Naomi Shihab Nye, Evie Shockley, Danez Smith, Frank X Walker and Michael Wiegers.
For more information and updates, visit njpac.org/series/dodgepoetry or grdodge.org/our-work/dodge-poetry.
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