Date/Time
Date(s) - 04/18/2021
3:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Favorite Poem Project Sponsored by Conkling Hall & Rensselaerville Library
Dear Friends & Neighbors:
We’re writing to invite you – once again – to join us in combating the dreariness of “mud season” as well as our long pandemic year, by celebrating Community and the Human Spirit in our 16th Annual Favorite Poem Project – featuring YOU (poetry lovers), and Local Poets: Kostas Anagnapoulas, Tom Bonville, Tom & Didi Corrado, Marea Gordett, Phyllis Hillinger, Mike Maggio, Linda Miller, Robert Miller, Mimi Moriararty, Philomena Moriarty, Sarah Nelson, Claire North, Mark O’Brien, Dianne Sefcik, & Dan Wilcox.
As part of a national movement (initiated by former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky), this event brings communities together every April across the USA by inviting neighbors to bring their favorite poems to read aloud (or sing aloud) in a relaxed poetry celebration. As you may remember, the Favorite Poem Project in Rensselaerville has often drawn more than 50 readers (adults and children of all ages), and poems have ranged from the hilarious to the somber, from poems by children’s poet Shel Silverstein, to selections from Tennyson and Keats, to poems by 20th & 21st century poets Billy Collins, Lucille Clifton, Tracy K Smith, Mary Oliver, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Claudia Rankine among many, many others, to song lyrics (often performed), as well as original poems written and performed by local poets.
The link for this even is ttps://www.conklinghall.org/poetry. Siign up for a relaxing afternoon of poetry.
