Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival

04/22/2024

Thank you to all who came out this weekend! As a parting gift, please enjoy the fruits of your labor/the labor of all our poets & participants. ✍️💛✨

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04/21/2024

thank you for such a wonderful reading yesterday. what an absolute treat.

04/21/2024

04/20/2024

Our lovely poets! 😍

04/20/2024

Thank you for such a wonderful generative session on prose poems this morning! 🌞 We have a big day ahead, come read, write & luxuriate with us…

04/20/2024

What a lovely start to our festival! Many thanks to all who read at our open mic, to our undergraduate poetry contest winner, Naomi Marx, & to Eugenia Leigh for such wonderful words. Come through tomorrow to luxuriate in some more language & conversation with us!

03/05/2024

As the Spring approaches we are happy to announce the line-ups and schedules of this year's SLC Poetry Festival!

Free and open to the public, this year our festival will happen on April 19th - 21st, here on campus at Sarah Lawrence College. We are proud to feature readings, craft talks, and generative sessions with Catherine Barnett, Haleh Liza Gafori, Marie Howe, Joanna Klink, Eugenia Leigh, Dennis Nurkse, Maya C. Popa, Afaa M. Weaver, Shelley Wong, and more. Our capstone event on the evening of Saturday April 20 will be a celebration of the late poet Jean Valentine, who was a beloved faculty member at Sarah Lawrence College for many years, co-hosted by Alice James Books. Besides some of the featured readers, our faculty members Myra Goldberg and Victoria Redel will also join us during the Jean Valentine celebration event.

For detailed schedules and RSVP, please visit our Eventbrite page linked in bio~