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Poetry Friday: Arthur Sze, 2012 Festival Poet
Arthur Sze’s poems, like those of the haiku masters he translated early in his career, almost always offer us an immediate impression–a clear image, a question to ponder, an emotional resonance–on...
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Poetry Friday: Natasha Trethewey, 2012 Festival Poet
There are poets who take an aesthetic position that does not include history, politics or social issues as subject matter for their poetry. They maintain this position because they are more...
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Poetry: Gregory Pardlo, 2012 Festival Poet
“I do believe that somewhere in our language, in our performance of speech, that all the background noise of ambition and criticism and judgment can sort of melt away and what’s left is just human...
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Poetry Friday: C.K. Williams, 2012 Festival Poet
If the voice in our heads that comments on our experiences, our reactions, our feelings, that talks us into our transgressions and later berates us for them, that fears, is ashamed of its fear, that...
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Poetry: Benjamin Alire Sáenz, 2012 Festival Poet
Much of my work has to do with the self and the conflicts with the external world. I was never just at war with myself—I was at war with the world I live in, and that was my true subject. But it...
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Poetry Friday: Larissa Szporluk, 2012 Festival Poet
“What inspires me now is my own impatience. I almost feel hatred now for casual language. The words I want to use have to be sharp, energetic. No more meandering.” –Larissa Szporluk, in an interview...
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Poetry: Raúl Zurita, 2012 Festival Poet
Raúl Zurita, winner of the National Literature Prize of Chile and the Pablo Neruda Prize, is one of the most widely acclaimed Latin American poets writing today. He is also one of the most...
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Poetry Friday Guest Blog: Greening the Dodge Poetry Festival
Let’s face it – festivals and big events produce a lot of waste. Think of all the single use items, like plastic and Styrofoam, we toss in the trash instead of recycling, reusing or even entirely...
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Poetry and Music
Blood Dazzler at the Octoroon Balls with Patricia Smith and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Saturday, October 6th at 4:00PM Bethany Baptist Church 275 West Market Street Newark, NJ 07103 Poet...
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Poetry Friday: Festival Updates
In the final days before the 2012 Dodge Poetry Festival, we’re posting the tools you’ll need to have the best experience possible in Newark’s Downtown Arts District. Here are some new details we have...
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Thanks for Listening
This past Friday, during the morning readings in NJPAC’s Prudential Hall, I came on stage to introduce the third reader and saw that the hall was filled, to the fourth tier, with students. We’d...
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Giving Thanks for a Successful 2012 Dodge Poetry Festival
From October 11th through the 14th, the city of Newark was full of people from thirty-four states and several foreign countries who’d come together to celebrate the written and spoken word. During...
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Poetry Friday: Festival Photo Highlights
We’re so excited to have photos of the 2012 Festival to share with you. Whether you weren’t able to make it this year, or you’d just like to remember some highlights from your time at the Festival,...
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Hurricane Sandy Poetry Initiative
blessing the boats may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out beyond the face of fear Lucille Clifton In the 2012-2013 school year, the Dodge Poetry in the...
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Celebrate the New Year with Creativity
I imagine you, like me, have a host of stories from the holidays. I traveled to the mid-west to visit family for a week. As always, I had a raucously joyous time playing with my little nephews and...
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Hack Jersey: Celebrating Creativity in Journalism
The decline of the American newspaper is generally seen as a tragedy of modern journalism. The villain in the story is the internet, that great disruptor — which, by the way, has disrupted the...
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Our Road to Recovery
On October 29, 2012 the ‘new normal’ crashed into the east coast in the form of a tropical cyclone, forever altering the landscapes and collective psyche of my home state of New Jersey. The now...
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Does Structure Inspire Creativity?
In strategic planning, it just might… When we hear the word creativity, we often envision a wild, unfettered environment in which great ideas seem to pop up effortlessly. It brings to mind artists...
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Sustainability and Creativity…Perfect Together: Creating AWE (an Arts from...
For many people, the concept of Sustainable Living as a means of protecting our environment is simple to grasp, yet challenging to put into daily practice. Sustainability advocates are discovering...
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The Creative Edge That Is NJ Arts
Creativity is relative. It is innovation’s Siamese twin, the artist’s muse, and a commodity in the business world. In the non-profit arts world it is an essential component of management, marketing...
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