Want to make sure you catch a specific poet during the 2018 Dodge Poetry Festival? Here are the specific days that each poet will be performing in Newark's Downtown Arts District.
Please note: This list will be kept up-to-date as we get closer to the Festival, but schedules are subject to change.
Presence of an asterisk (*) indicates that poet will be participating in the evening Chancellor's reading only, so they will not be performing during the daytime.
| Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | |
Elizabeth Alexander | •* | • | • | |
Francisco Aragón | | | • | |
Renée Ashley | | | • | |
Ellen Bass | •* | • | • | |
Jan Beatty | • | • | • | • |
William Brewer | | • | • | |
Jericho Brown | • | • | • | • |
Tina Chang | • | • | • | • |
Cortney Lamar Charleston | | | • | |
Marilyn Chin | •* | • | • | |
Sandra Cisneros | • | • | • | • |
Henri Cole | • | • | • | • |
Aaron Coleman | | • | • | |
Kwame Dawes | • | • | • | • |
Safia Elhillo | | • | • | |
William Evans | | • | • | |
Naomi Extra | | • | | |
Forrest Gander | •* | • | • | |
Ross Gay | | • | • | |
Maria Mazziotti Gillan | | • | • | |
Rigoberto González | | • | • | |
Linda Gregerson | •* | • | • | |
Juan Felipe Herrera | • | • | • | • |
Brenda Hillman | •* | • | • | |
David Hinton | • | • | • | • |
Nicole Homer | | • | • | |
Marie Howe | •* | • | • | |
Rob Hylton | | • | • | |
Joy Ladin | | • | • | |
Joseph Legaspi | | • | • | |
Raymond Luczak | | • | • | |
Khaled Mattawa | •* | • | • | |
Peter E. Murphy | | • | ||
Eileen Myles | • | • | • | • |
Marilyn Nelson | •* | • | • | |
Aimee Nezhukumatathil | • | • | • | • |
Hieu Minh Nguyen | | • | • | |
Sharon Olds | • | • | • | • |
Gregory Orr | • | • | • | • |
Alicia Ostriker | •* | • | • | |
Gregory Pardlo | • | • | • | • |
Kevin Pilkington | | | • | |
Khadijah Queen | | • | • | |
Nancy Reddy | | • | ||
Alberto Ríos | •* | • | • | |
Mary Ruefle | • | • | • | • |
Christine Salvatore | | • | | |
Sapphire | • | • | • | • |
sam sax | • | • | • | • |
Natalie Scenters-Zapico | • | • | • | • |
Nicole Sealey | | • | • | |
Ntozake Shange | • | • | | • |
Danez Smith | | • | • | |
David St. John | •* | • | • | |
J.C. Todd | | | • | |
Paul Tran | • | • | • | • |
BJ Ward | | • | ||
Rachel Wiley | • | • | • | • |
Jenny Xie | | • | • | |
David Young | • | • | • | • |