Bring Your High School Students!

Since 1986, over 45,000 students and 10,000 teachers from as far away as Florida, Wisconsin, Maine and California have participated in High School Student Day, the largest poetry event for high school students in North America.

High School Student Day will take place on October 12th this year. Pre-registered high school students and their pre-registered teachers are admitted at no charge to all High School Student Day events

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2012 Festival Dates Announced

The Board of Trustees and the staff of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation are pleased to announce that the Dodge Poetry Festival, the largest poetry event in North America, is being planned for Thursday October 11 through Sunday October 14^th, 2012 in Newark, New Jersey.  The fourteenth biennial Festival will again transform New Jersey’s largest and most vibrant city into a “poetry village” for four days.

As we move closer to the Festival, further information—including the poet line up and schedule of events—will be announced.  In the meantime, we want you to know that 2012 Festival will feature the outstanding programming you’ve come to love.

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