Dodge Poetry Festival is coming up

Dodge Poetry Festival is coming up! If you write poetry and or love poetry, you really need to consider going to this festival. It is in Jersey. Glinda and I use to go to this religiously before we had kids. We met some of the best poet

s in the US, sat with them, dialogued with them, and listened to them read their poems. This was a real grassroots exposure to the art and craft of writing poetry. Both of us gained immense inspiration from the knee to knee conversations with the great! Check it out:

http://www.dodgepoetry.org/ 

Over the years we met:

William Stafford
Christopher Bursk
Robert Bly
Coleman Barks
Allen Ginsberg
Gary Snyder
Robert Hass
Claribel Alegria
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Sharon McPherson
Carolyn Forche
Naomi Shihab Nye
Lucille Clifton
Sharon Olds
Gerald Stern
Stanley Kunitz
Mary Oliver
Joyce Carol Oates
Rita Dove
Sekou Sundiata
Adrienne Rich
Marge Piercy

The funniest thing was that we met Robert Bly one year and he introduced us to a poet we did not know who lived around the corner from us back in Bucks County. A reminder that KISMET tends to rule.

Please consider buying tickets and supporting the arts.