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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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 14th, 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.
The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Archive project is planned to consist of 2,500 hours of audio and video recordings, which include never-before-seen and once-in-a-lifetime conversations by internationally recognized poets.

Lately you may have heard us referring to Giving Voice, a series of poetry exploration groups and part of our Clearing the Spring, Tending the Fountain program for New Jersey teachers. But “giving voice” is also an overarching theme of the Dodge Poetry Program, a thread running through all of our programs; it is important in these sessions for teachers, in mini-festivals for students, and on all ...
Read MoreThursday Evening October 11th Poetry Sampler Amiri Baraka Eavan Boland Henri Cole Nikky Finney Terrance Hayes Juan Felipe Herrera Jane Hirshfield Fanny Howe Kurtis Lamkin Dorianne Laux Ada Limón Thomas Lux Gregory Orr Patricia Smith Arthur Sze Natasha Trethewey C.K. Williams Raúl Zurita …and more Friday Evening October 12 Terrance Hayes Thomas Lux Fanny Howe Jane Hirshfield Kurtis Lamki...
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