Festival 2008

Historic Waterloo Village in Stanhope, New Jersey was re-opened specially for the near 20,000 people that attended the 12th biennial Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, which ran from Thursday, September 25 through Sunday, September 28, 2008.

Thank you to everyone that made the Festival such a huge success!

We hope you enjoyed Chris Abani, Coleman Barks, Coral Bracho, Billy Collins, Lucille Clifton, Mark Doty, Martín Espada, Joy Harjo, Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Edward Hirsch, Jane Hirshfield, Ted Kooser, Maxine Kumin, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sharon Olds, Linda Pastan, Charles Simic, C.D. Wright, Franz Wright and dozens of other accomplished poets, musicians and storytellers over the four days of poetry and music beside the Musconetcong River and among Waterloo Village’s lawns, trees, and landmark historic buildings.