Category Archives: Poetry
Here’s a free, week-long online poetry retreat just for you
April 13, 2018Here in New Jersey, it finally feels like spring. The last bits of snow have melted, we’re shedding our winter coats, and buds are starting to pop up in the grass and on branches. What better day for us to open … Continue reading
Exciting Poet Line-Up for Whose Body? Celebration and Reclamation
March 9, 2018This week, we kicked off the Whose Body? Project with videos of Ada Limón and Jericho Brown reading their poems “The Vulture & the Body” and “I am a Virus.” We’ll be posting two videos each week for the rest of the month, by poets Aimee Nezhukumatathil, C. Bain, Rachel Wiley, Rigoberto González, Priscilla Orr, and Joseph Millar. … Continue reading
Whose Body? Celebration & Reclamation Event on March 24th
February 23, 2018As part of the National Poetry Coalition’s programming initiative, Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Poetry & the Body, Dodge Poetry is launching the month-long Whose Body? Project next month. Whose Body? is a question that arose time and … Continue reading
Poetry Friday: Spring & Fountain Refresh
February 9, 2018Many of you may not know that Dodge Poetry is only one of five major programs at the Foundation; the others are Arts, Education, Environment and Informed Communities. Although we are the only Dodge program that functions as an operating organization and … Continue reading
Poetry Friday: The Poetry Coalition
December 8, 2017Imagine walking into an airy, beautiful, contemporary building with 50,000 poetry books, one of the largest audio and video archives of poetry in the word, a small theater for readings, spaces dedicated to workshops, meetings and conferences, and its own little … Continue reading
Ask a Poet: Vincent Toro
October 20, 2017Since the end of the summer, we’ve been posting short Q&As on the Dodge Blog each Friday, featuring poets who participated in our Newark High School Mini Festival earlier this week. Through readings and performances, Q&As and discussions, these poets engaged with over … Continue reading
Ask a Poet: Jasmine Mans
October 13, 2017This fall, we’re hosting a High School Regional Mini-Festival at the Paul Robeson Center in Newark. Through readings and performances, Q&As and discussions, a group of poets will engage with hundreds of Newark high school students over the course of one school day in October. … Continue reading
Ask a Poet: Ellen Hagan
September 22, 2017This fall, we’re hosting a High School Regional Mini-Festival at the Paul Robeson Center in Newark. Through readings and performances, Q&As and discussions, a group of poets will engage with hundreds of Newark high school students over the course of one school day in October. … Continue reading
Ask a Poet: Jonterri Gadson
September 15, 2017This fall, we’re hosting a High School Regional Mini-Festival at the Paul Robeson Center in Newark. Through readings and performances, Q&As and discussions, a group of poets will engage with hundreds of Newark high school students over the course of one school day in October. … Continue reading
Ask a Poet: Kyle Dargan
September 8, 2017This fall, we’re hosting a High School Regional Mini-Festival at the Paul Robeson Center in Newark. Through readings and performances, Q&As and discussions, a group of poets will engage with hundreds of Newark high school students over the course of one school day in October. … Continue reading
The Opposite of Hate
August 21, 2017For a direct response to the events in Charlottesville, see Dodge President and CEO Chris Daggett’s blog. As a team of poets who have read, written and presented poetry throughout our lives, we believe it can do the opposite … Continue reading
