Dodge Poetry Festival - tickets available

The listing of poets has been updated and tickets are now ready for purchase for the Geraldine R Dodge Poetry Festival to be held on September 25-28, 2008. The line up currently looks like this:

Chris Abani	Forrest Gander	Linda Pastan
Simon Armitage	Aracelis Girmay	Patrick Phillips
Coleman Barks	Joy Harjo	Robin Robertson
Taha Muhammad Ali	Robert Hass	Roger Sedarat
Coral Bracho	Brenda Hillman	Brenda Shaughnessy
Peter Cole	Edward Hirsch	Patricia Smith
Billy Collins	Jane Hirshfield	Tracy K. Smith
Lucille Clifton	Ted Kooser	Charles Simic
Mark Doty	Maxine Kumin	Luke Warmwater
Thomas Sayer Ellis	Joseph O. Legaspi	C.D. Wright
Beth Ann Fennelly	Naomi Shihab Nye	Franz Wright
Martin Espada	Sharon Olds	Kevin Young
Sarah Gambito

The Festival will be held on the grounds of Waterloo Village in Stanhope, NJ.

For additional info and to join the Festival mailing list, visit their website.

If you do have a chance to go and have questions about the Festival, let me know. This will be my 4th.

Dodge Festival 2008

2008 GERALDINE R. DODGE POETRY FESTIVAL
Waterloo Village, Stanhope, New Jersey
September 25 – September 28, 2008

The 12^th Biennial Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival will be held at Waterloo Village in Stanhope, New Jersey from Thursday, September 25 through Sunday, September 28, 2008.

We invite you to join Chris Abani, Lucille Clifton, Billy Collins, Martín Espada, Ted Kooser, Maxine Kumin, Naomi Shihab Nye, Charles Simic, Franz Wright and dozens of other poets, musicians and storytellers for four days of poetry and music beside the Musconetcong River and among the Village’s lawns, trees, and historic buildings.

Please visit dodgepoetry.org frequently in the coming months as new poets and performers are added to the line-up, and for updates on accommodations, opportunities for teachers and high school students, and scheduling information. Tickets will go on sale in April 2008.

Visit our brand new Dodge Poetry Festival Gift Shop to browse for anything from a mug or a tote bag to a 2006 Festival T-Shirt, all featuring our vivid new logo. The Dodge Poetry Festival Gift Shop is the only place outside of the Festival where you will find our gorgeous one-of-a-kind posters commemorating all 11 Festivals.


from an email just received from the Festival organizers.

I will book some of my vacation time next year to be there!