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Favorite Irish Poems, Friday, Nov 22, 2024 8:00PM
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Curated by Vona Groarke and Nick Laird
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Date
Friday, Nov 22, 2024 8:00PM
Name
Favorite Irish Poems
Description
Favorite Irish Poems is the traditional opening night event of our annual PoetryFest, for which we invite festival poets and a broader range of our artistic community to choose their most-loved verse by an Irish writer to read. This year's event features the Obie and Whitbread Award winning playwright Dael Orlandersmith, New York City Ballet principal dancer Sara Mearns, Consul General Helena Nolan, writer and critic Heather Clark, actor and boxer John Duddy, author Isabella Hammad, and more special guests to be announced, along with PoetryFest co-curators Vona Groarke and Nick Laird and poets Nuar Alsadir, Henri Cole, Leontia Flynn, John Kelly, Fran Lock, and Declan Ryan.