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Art All Night Trenton 2011
Michele Russo, Poetry Coordinator Several of us on the Dodge staff made it to Art All Night in Trenton last weekend. What an amazing event! Hundreds and hundreds of artworks were on display—artists...
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Dodge Poetry Website Redesign: What Are Your Favorite Poetry Resources?
What is the common goal of the Dodge Poetry Program? That participants will make a space for poetry in their lives despite hectic schedules, deadlines and routines – the types of things that aren’t...
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Poetry Friday: Festival Posters
Michele Russo & Rebecca Gambale We recently spent an afternoon cleaning and reorganizing a storage closet here at the office. As we shifted around boxes of files, we had a moment to look through...
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Poetry Friday: Friends of the Festival
Martin, Michele & Rebecca This week’s blog announces our ambitious Friends of the Festival fundraising campaign. You may wonder why the Dodge Poetry Program—part of the Dodge Foundation, a major...
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Poetry Friday: In Celebration of Poets Laureate
Rebecca Gambale, Program Associate, Poetry In honor of the newly appointed United States Poet Laureate Philip Levine, we thought we’d feature an important part of every Dodge Poetry Festival – Poets...
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Poetry Friday: Guest Blogger Cat Doty, Dodge Poet
In our blog today, Cat Doty reflects on “Beginner’s Mind” one of the Core Principles of Clearing the Spring, Tending the Fountain–“Both listening/reading and speaking/writing are likely to be more...
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Poetry Friday: Guest Blogger Edwin Romond, Dodge Poet
This is a blog about love. I have loved poetry all my life and I’ve loved teachers, both my own and those I taught with for 32 years in public schools. This year, for six Tuesday nights in Morristown,...
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Poetry Friday: High School Events, Fall 2011
Michele Russo, Poetry Coordinator We’re pretty excited. This fall, we’re visiting High Schools that have never hosted a Dodge Poetry Event before. They may have attended the Dodge Poetry Festival or...
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Poetry Friday: Listening and Reading
Martin Farawell, Program Director, Poetry Talk about poetry’s tradition as an oral art, and someone will counter that they wouldn’t want to give up the intimate pleasure of sitting alone and silently...
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Martin Farawell, Program Director, Poetry During the 2002 Dodge Poetry Festival, while walking along the dirt path to the Braw Pond Tent on one errand or another, I was stopped in my tracks by a voice...
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Poetry Friday: Welcome to Autumn
Well, it’s finally happened. The fall is here in New Jersey. While we all pull out our warm jackets, plan trips to the apple orchard, and adjust to the longer nights, we thought we’d share some of...
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Poetry Friday: Open Doors Studio Tour in Newark
We love the creative spirit that thrives in Newark. We wanted to make sure you knew about the Newark Arts Council’s city-wide 10th Open Doors Studio Tour, which kicked off yesterday. This weekend is...
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Poetry Friday: Posters Are Heading Out!
We’re spending this Friday packing up posters we sold during our pop-up shop last month. We’re really pleased by how many we sold. A total of 177 posters sold, which amounts to about $1770 which will...
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Poetry Friday: “How do I get to read at the Dodge Festival?”
Members of the Dodge Poetry Program staff are often asked, “How do I get to read at the Dodge Festival?” The answer is deceptively simple: We read every submission and review every audio or video...
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Poetry Friday…on Monday?
We know you’re used to seeing us on Fridays, but we’ve got big news for you on Monday, we promise. You won’t want to miss it, so make sure to check back in with us here on the Dodge blog, or by...
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Dodge Poetry Festival Returning to Newark in Autumn 2012
Come for the Poetry, Discover a Great City The Board of Trustees and the staff of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation are pleased to announce that the Dodge Poetry Festival, the largest poetry event in...
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Friends of the Festival: High School Student Day
“The Festival gave me a new outlook on poetry. Poetry is an outlet for escape and it gives the world meaning.” -Yasmine, 12th Grade “The highlight for me was being able to listen to and understand...
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Poetry Friday Guest Blog: J.C. Todd, Dodge Poet
On the first day of the new year, promise shines, but on the second day, it begins to dim. Returning to teaching, although it’s a new semester with new courses, isn’t accompanied by the start-up glow...
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Poetry Fridays: In the Not-So-Bleak Mid-Winter
Martin Farawell, Program Director, Poetry In his 1991 essay, “Slow Down for Poetry,” former U.S. Poet Laureate Mark Strand wrote that poetry invites us to step out of the pace of our everyday lives...
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Poetry Friday: High School Student Day
“The best audience for a poetry reading that I have ever experienced is the audience during the Dodge Poetry Festival’s High School Student Day. Busloads and busloads of students from surrounding...
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