Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival

04/22/2024

Thank you to all who came out this weekend! As a parting gift, please enjoy the fruits of your labor/the labor of all our poets & participants. ✍️💛✨

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04/21/2024

thank you for such a wonderful reading yesterday. what an absolute treat.

04/21/2024

04/20/2024

Our lovely poets! 😍

04/20/2024

Thank you for such a wonderful generative session on prose poems this morning! 🌞 We have a big day ahead, come read, write & luxuriate with us…

04/20/2024

What a lovely start to our festival! Many thanks to all who read at our open mic, to our undergraduate poetry contest winner, Naomi Marx, & to Eugenia Leigh for such wonderful words. Come through tomorrow to luxuriate in some more language & conversation with us!

03/05/2024

As the Spring approaches we are happy to announce the line-ups and schedules of this year's SLC Poetry Festival!

Free and open to the public, this year our festival will happen on April 19th - 21st, here on campus at Sarah Lawrence College. We are proud to feature readings, craft talks, and generative sessions with Catherine Barnett, Haleh Liza Gafori, Marie Howe, Joanna Klink, Eugenia Leigh, Dennis Nurkse, Maya C. Popa, Afaa M. Weaver, Shelley Wong, and more. Our capstone event on the evening of Saturday April 20 will be a celebration of the late poet Jean Valentine, who was a beloved faculty member at Sarah Lawrence College for many years, co-hosted by Alice James Books. Besides some of the featured readers, our faculty members Myra Goldberg and Victoria Redel will also join us during the Jean Valentine celebration event.

For detailed schedules and RSVP, please visit our Eventbrite page linked in bio~

04/24/2023

Thank you to everyone involved for a phenomenal Poetry Festival this year! Here’s some highlights 🎞️

Thank you to Hala Alyan, Nickole Brown, Claudia Cortese, Richie Hofmann, Emily Jungmin Yoon, Donika Kelly, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Cecily Parks, R.A. Villanueva, and Sally Wen Mao for your words, your generosity, and your inspiration. We are honored to know you and to be a part of your journey💛

Another big thank you to our wonderful Poetry Fest committee, Codirectors Madisen Gummer and Amanda Pendley, and committee members Zachariah Claypole White, Zoë Cuniffe, Ash Freeman, Makayla Gay, Catalina Irigoyen, Joshua Leonard, Greer McAllister, Anushka Nagarmath, Kate Peters, and Chloe Phillips. We celebrate your hard work today and every day.

04/21/2023

We are beyond excited to inaugurate this year’s SLC Poetry Festival! Events will begin at 6 pm, starting with our open mic. Come join us for a very lyrical evening 📝

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🔎 Don’t forget to register for this weekend’s events via Eventbrite at the link in our bio!

04/20/2023

We’d like to give a big thank you to our Alumni Judge, Nick Soluri, for choosing our undergraduate and MFA contest winners this year!

04/20/2023

We are so happy to announce that we have nine MFA contest winners, all reading at 2:30 pm on Sunday, April 23rd in Heimbold’s Donnelly Theater!

We designed this contest to bring MFA students from different programs together to celebrate a weekend of poetry. We hope you’ll come join us in hearing from our winners this Sunday!

Not pictured: Julie Chen representing Brooklyn College, Nat Ward representing Brooklyn College

04/14/2023

Introducing our three wonderful undergraduate contest winners for this year’s poetry festival, Emma DeNaples, Emma Cameron, and Jane Scheiber!

Emma DeNaples will be opening the Friday evening reading for Donika Kelly and Sally Wen Mao at 8:00 pm.

Emma Cameron will be opening the Saturday evening reading with Diana Khoi Nguyen and Hala Alyan at 6:00 pm.

Jane Scheiber will be opening the Sunday evening reading with Cecily Parks and R.A. Villanueva at 5:00 pm.

All three readings will be held in Heimbold Auditorium in the Donnelly Theater. We hope to see you there!