Frequently Asked Questions

1. When will the next Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival occur?

The next Festival will take place in 2024. Please stay updated by joining our mailing list and following us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok! 

2. Where can I get video footage of the Festival?

Sign up for a free Dodge Poetry Membership at our Members site to access our 2020 Festival Video Library of over 50 sessions from our 2020 virtual festival.

More than sixty videos featuring short readings by Festival Poets who participated in the 2006, 2008 and 2014 Dodge Poetry Festivals can be found on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/grdodge.

Five PBS television series, including four hosted by Bill Moyers, feature extensive footage shot at past Festivals:

The Power of the Word, with Bill Moyers
The Language of Life, with Bill Moyers
Poetry Heaven
Fooling With Words, with Bill Moyers
Sounds of Poetry, with Bill Moyers

Festival footage can also be found in these PBS television specials:

A Life Together, Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon
Rita Dove, Poet Laureate

If your local public, college or school library does not have copies of these programs, urge them to purchase them through Films for the Humanities and Sciences: www.films.com.

Many episodes of WGBH’s Poetry Everywhere series feature readings filmed at past Dodge Poetry Festivals.

The Dodge Poetry Archive Project hopes to make more video and audio footage available to teachers, students and the general public in the years ahead.