Rachel McKibbens

Rachel McKibbens is a 2007 New York Foundation for the Arts poetry fellow and author of Pink Elephant. For four years McKibbens taught poetry through the Healing Arts Program at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan and continues to give lectures across the country advocating for those who suffer from mental illness and the benefits of creative writing. Her poems, short stories and creative non-fiction have appeared in numerous journals, including The Los Angeles Review, The Nervous Breakdown, The London Magazine, The Acentos Review, World Literature Today and The American Poetry Journal. She resides with her family in upstate New York where she co-curates the monthly reading series Poetry & Pie Night.

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Schedule

THURSDAY

11:00-12:15
Conversation: From Homer to Hip-Hop: Poetry and the Oral Tradition
Juan Felipe Herrera, Kurtis Lamkin, Taylor Mali, Rachel McKibbens
Chase Room

3:30-4:30
Reading and Conversation
Brian Barker, Rachel McKibbens, Arthur Sze
Victoria Theatre

7:30-10:00
POETRY SAMPLER
Richard Blanco, Eavan Boland, Henri Cole, Sharon Dolin, Nikky Finney, Terrance Hayes, Juan Felipe Herrera, Jane Hirshfield, Fanny Howe, Kurtis Lamkin, Dorianne Laux, Ada Limón, Thomas Lux, Rachel McKibbens, Taylor Mali, Joseph Millar, Idra Novey, Gregory Orr, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Patricia Smith, Arthur Sze, Larissa Szporluk, Natasha Trethewey, C.K. Williams, Raúl Zurita
Prudential Hall
 

FRIDAY

9:30-10:30am
Festival Poet Readings
Amiri Baraka, Eavan Boland, Juan Felipe Herrera, Dorianne Laux, Rachel McKibbens
Prudential Hall

12:10-1:10pm
Conversation: From Homer to Hip Hop/Poetry and the Oral Tradition
Rachel McKibbens, Taylor Mali, Patricia Smith
Trinity & St. Philip’s Cathedral

1:30-2:30pm
Conversation: Finding Your Poetry
Jane Hirshfield, Rachel McKibbens, Joseph Millar, Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Victoria Theatre
 

SATURDAY

12:00-1:10pm
Festival Poets Reading
Rachel McKibbens, Joseph Millar, John Murillo
Chase Room

1:30-2:40
Conversation: American Poetries
Terrance Hayes, Rachel McKibbens, Arthur Sze, Larissa Szporluk
Victoria Theatre

3:00-4:10
Conversation: From Homer to Hip Hop/Poetry and the Oral Tradition
Kurtis Lamkin, Rachel McKibbens, Taylor Mali, Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Victoria Theatre
 

SUNDAY 

10:30-11:40
Shuffle, Cramproll, Paradiddle and Stomp
Ras Baraka, Juan Felipe Herrera, Kurtis Lamkin, Rachel McKibbens
Victoria Theatre