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Poetry Fridays: 2010 Festival Poet Tara Betts
Rebecca Gambale, Festival Assistant Tara Betts is a Cave Canem fellow and a lecturer in creative writing at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. Originally from Kankakee, Illinois, she has a Chicago...
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Poetry Fridays: 2010 Festival Poet Teresa Carson
Rebecca Gambale, Festival Assistant Teresa Carson’s Elegy for the Floater is an example of how poetry can help an individual to process and connect with a difficult past, while transforming the painful...
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Poetry Fridays: 2010 Festival Poet Michael Cirelli
Rebecca Gambale, Festival Assistant Flip over Michael Cirelli’s debut collection, Lobster with Ol’ Dirty Bastard, and you’ll see an interesting combination: a blurb by The Best American Poetry editor...
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2010 Festival Poet: Michael Dickman
Rebecca Gambale, Festival Assistant Have you ever recalled a dream or memory to another person? What happens to the structure of your language as you pull up the dormant images in your mind? Think of...
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2010 Festival Poet: Kathleen Graber
Rebecca Gambale, Festival Assistant You can’t read an article about poet Kathleen Graber without seeing her referred to as a “success story.” She says her interest in poetry was stirred “fairly late in...
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2010 Festival Poet: Malena Mörling
Malena Mörling grew up in southern Sweden and has translated extensively from Swedish into English including the work of Tomas Tranströmer – see “April and Silence.” This might explain why her works...
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The 2010 Festival Village
Get acquainted with the conveniently walkable Downtown Newark Arts District through our newly added Festival Village page. Here you can see the layout of the charming and historically rich area which...
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Full Festival Schedule Available
The full Festival schedule is now posted on our website! You can plan your time in the Festival Village and not miss a beat. See when and where Festival Poets will be reading, as well as what topics...
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Festival 2010: Special Opportunities for New Jersey Teachers
A Life Together/Poets for Teachers Dorianne Laux and Joseph Millar Thursday, October 7, 3:00-5:00 p.m. New Jersey Performing Arts Center A Life Together/Poets for Teachers is being offered free of...
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The 2010 Dodge Poetry Festival in Pictures
Here are some images from the 2010 Dodge Poetry Festival in the Downtown Newark Arts District: NJPAC’s square was an inviting space for Festival-goers to relax between readings Vendors and their tents...
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Poetry Friday Guest Blog: From the Eyes of a Student Day Coordinator
To get a teacher’s perspective, we get to hear from Judy Michaels, who has brought students on Student Day from Princeton Day School since 1998. Judy Rowe Michaels, Princeton Day School High School...
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What’s Your Line?
To kick off National Poetry Month, we thought we would pay homage to the building blocks of poetry: really great lines. Within each of us live words that we might not even realize are there, stored...
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Poetry Fridays: Alternate Routes Hip Hop Festival This Weekend
You don’t have to wait until the next Dodge Festival to hear great poetry in Newark. This weekend, NJPAC’s Alternate Routes Hip Hop Festival is hosting more than twenty Hip Hop artists in a variety of...
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Exploring Poetry with Voorhees High School
Rebecca Gambale, Program Associate, Poetry What is it that poetry does? Michael Cirelli explored this idea with students of Voorhees High School last week in a classroom conversation, presenting them...
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Clearing the Spring, Tending the Fountain: The Common Gathering
Over the past several weeks, we’ve been sharing the Core Principles of our Clearing the Spring, Tending the Fountain poetry exploration series for teachers. April 30th was the culminating event for...
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Poetry Fridays: Giving Voice with Leadership New Jersey and Leadership Newark
Martin Farawell, Program Director, Poetry May 13, 2011 The Dodge Poetry Festival, the four PBS series’ on poetry hosted by Bill Moyers (all of which featured extensive footage from the Dodge Festival),...
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Poetry Fridays: Playing With Poetry
May 20, 2011 Michele Russo, Poetry Coordinator That’s Dodge Poet Peter Murphy. And that’s Thayana, a student at Cumberland Regional High School in Bridgeton. You’re might be wondering why Peter is...
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Michele Russo, Poetry Coordinator How is a poet like a historian? Do poems need to be factual in order to be true? How do poems tell the human story differently than any other art form? How does...
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How Do I Get a Poet in My Classroom?
It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but it’s actually a question that the Dodge Poetry Staff hears a lot. In the last few months, we’ve highlighted a few of the High School Mini-Festivals...
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Poetry Fridays: Trying to Understand
Rebecca Gambale, Poetry Program Associate The Dodge Poetry Mini-festival at Millburn High School this Wednesday opened with a reading from the day’s three visiting poets. First to read was Patrick...
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