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Location
Irish Arts Center
726 11th Avenue
Hell's Kitchen, NYC
Overview
Thank you for subscribing to our Poem of the Day series! From here, you should receive poems from the rest of our 2022 PoetryFest participants.
If you have any questions about Poems of the Day or PoetryFest, please contact info@irishartscenter.org.
Lastly, we hope you will reserve your seats for the weekend's events, if you haven't already and are able to attend! All readings and conversations on Saturday and Sunday, December 3 and 4, are free. See below for reservation links.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2 | 8pm
Favorite Poems
Tickets $25-49, including after-party with poets
The opening night tradition of bringing together festival poets and special guests to share the Irish verses they love most. Guests include Bill Irwin, Consul General Helena Nolan, Cáit O'Riordan, Melissa Navia, J. Hope Stein, Mary Lou Quinlan, and more TBA. PoetryFest poets include Billy Collins, Jessica Traynor, Louis de Paor, Patricia Smith, Maurice Riordan, Sasha Debevec-McKenney, Seán Hewitt, Victoria Kennefick, Catherine Barnett and curator Nick Laird.
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PoetryFest's Favorite Poems event is inspired in part by Robert Pinsky's Favorite Poem Project.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3
All readings FREE (reservations strongly encouraged)
2pm | Victoria Kennefick and Sasha Debevec-McKenney
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3:30pm | Seán Hewitt and Catherine Barnett
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5pm | Louis de Paor and Billy Collins
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The 5pm reading is almost full. We hope you'll consider attending other events on this day, or sign up for the wait list should spaces open up.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4
All readings FREE (reservations strongly encouraged)
1pm | Jessica Traynor and Ilya Kaminsky
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2:30pm | Desert Island Poems: Conversation with Maurice Riordan and Patricia Smith, moderated by Nick Laird
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4pm | Maurice Riordan and Patricia Smith
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5:30pm | Launch of Patrick Kavanagh: Selected Poems with Paul Muldoon
“All Kavanagh’s gifts are on display,” as Paul Muldoon writes in his introduction to this new selection of 40 poems spanning 30 years of Patrick Kavanagh’s career.
Join us to launch Wake Forest Press' Patrick Kavanagh: Selected Poems, edited by Paul Muldoon, to close our 13th annual PoetryFest weekend with readings and a closing reception.
WITH OUR PARTNERS AT GLUCKSMAN IRELAND HOUSE
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2
2pm | The Tom Quinlan Lecture in Poetry: PoetryFest curator Nick Laird reads from his own work and introduces two of the visiting Irish poets who will be featured over the weekend.
Glucksman Ireland House NYU, 1 Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003
“PoetryFest brings together writers from both sides of the Atlantic to discuss, read from and generally cheer on the enduring poetic community of Ireland”—TIME OUT NEW YORK
This event is being recorded as part of a partnership with ALL ARTS Radio Hour, available on 88.3 WLIW FM, Long Island's only NPR station, wliw.org/radio or wherever you listen to podcasts.
Lead event partner: The Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation. Additional support generously provided by Culture Ireland, Tourism Ireland, Northern Ireland Bureau, and Mary Lou and Joe Quinlan.
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Our Supporters
Irish Arts Center programs are supported, in part, by government, foundation, and corporate partners including Culture Ireland, the agency for the promotion of Irish arts worldwide; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the Mayor’s Office and the New York City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; Howard Gilman Foundation; Tourism Ireland; the Jerome L. Greene Foundation; the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation; the Charina Endowment Fund; the Ireland Funds; the Shubert Foundation, Inc.; the Arnhold Foundation; the Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; the Irish Institute of New York; the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, New York; Northern Ireland Bureau; Invest NI; CIE Tours; M&T Bank; the Dead Rabbit; the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Consulate of Ireland in New York; and thousands of generous donors like you.