15th Annual PoetryFest at the Irish Arts Center

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Published on Thursday, 21 November 2024 19:37

Written by Brad Balfour

The Irish Arts Center’s PoetryFest returns for its 15th installment November 22 to the 24th. Held at the Irish Arts Center JL Greene Theater (726 11th Ave, NYC), PoetryFest is a free festival that features contemporary work from both sides of the Atlantic as well as readings and conversations with leading Irish, Northern Irish, and North American writers.

The festival opens on November 22 with Favorite Irish Poets with 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. This will be followed by a reception at the Devlin Café.

To learn more, go to: https://irishartscenter.org/

15th Annual PoetryFest
November 22 - 24, 2024

The JL Greene Theatre
Irish Arts Center
726 11th Avenue
Hell's Kitchen, NYC

Irish Arts Center's 14th Annual PoetryFest Opens With Special Guests

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Published on Monday, 27 November 2023 15:59

Written by Brad Balfour

The Irish Arts Center has been a haven for creative minds since the 1970s and one of its long running events is PoetryFest. The 14th Annual PoetryFest, running December 1 - 3, 2023 at the Irish Arts Centr (726 11th Ave) brings together poets and bards from both sides of the Atlantic.

The opening night festivities on December 1st features special guests Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Lucy Caldwell, Michelle Gallen, Michael Patrick MacDonald, Consul General Helena Nolan, and Dael Orlandersmith with festival poets Sara Berkeley, Tara Bergin, Timothy Donnelly, Elisa Gonzalez, Thomas McCarthy, Mary Noonan, Tom Sleigh, and curator Nick Laird.

After the opening festivities is a weekend of readings. On Sunday, December 3 is Desert Island Poems, in which Thomas McCarthy and Sharon Olds, in conversation with Nick Laird, have each poet choose five poems they would bring to a desert island with them.

To learn more, go to: https://irishartscenter.org/event/14th-annual-poetryfest

Irish Arts Center's 14th Annual PoetryFest
December 1 - 3, 2023

Irish Arts Center
726 11th Avenue
Hell's Kitchen, NYC

The 2023 New York Jewish Book Festival

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Published on Wednesday, 08 November 2023 09:33

Written by Brad Balfour

The 2023 New York Jewish Book Festival will be held from November 9 to the 19 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust (36 Battery Pl, New York, NY 10280) and virtually. Featuring a slew of literary guests and speakers with panel discussions, the festival includes Mitch Albom, Itamar Rabinovich, Shaul Magid, Ralph Shayne, and many more.

As part of a special presentation Lois Lowry will speak on her classic Number the Stars with a performance of songs from the Number the Stars musical by Sean Hartley from the Kaufman Music Center. A leading authority on Jewish food, Leah Koenig celebrates la cucina Ebraica Romana, Roman Jewish food, within the pages of her new cookbook, Portico: Cooking and Feasting in Rome’s Jewish Kitchen. Donald Margulies and Deborah Dash Moore’s essays illuminate and contextualize Halperin’s brilliant photographs in Kibbitz & Nosh: When We All Met at Dubrow’s Cafeteria, taking us back to the Jewish cafeteria. 

To learn more, go to: https://mjhnyc.org/new-york-jewish-book-festival/

The 2023 New York Jewish Book Festival
November 9 - 19, 2023

Merchant Logo Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
36 Battery Place
New York, NY 10280