Tag Archives: Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival
Poetry: Thomas Lux, 2012 Festival Poet
August 20, 2012Talking to students at the Dodge Festival in 2000, Thomas Lux described his life as a poet as “like any other job. You pack your lunch pail and you go to work.” This very down-to-earth approach of reveals something essential … Continue reading
Dodge Poetry Festival Returning to Newark in Autumn 2012
December 5, 2011Come 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 North America, will be returning … Continue reading
Poetry Friday: Festival Posters
July 15, 2011Michele 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 our collection of Festival posters, starting … Continue reading
I Imagine, Therefore I Am
March 11, 2011Martin Farawell, Program Director, Poetry Each spring, the Dodge Poetry Program offers poetry immersion groups for New Jersey Teachers. We don’t call them seminars or workshops because they are neither. The sessions are based on certain assumptions about the nature … Continue reading
Poetry Fridays: Festival Poet Penny Harter
July 9, 2010Stacey Balkun, Festival Assistant Measured and contemplative, Penny Harter’s poetry recognizes nature both in subject and in form. The imagery within her poems ranges from mourning doves on a windowsill to abandoned gas stations lining the highways of New Jersey. … Continue reading
