Poetry Month
Fairfax Poet Laureate Nicole Tong invites you to celebrate the 25th anniversary of National Poetry month. Each day, ArtsFairfax will release a poem read by 30 local residents, from all walks of life, as part of Ms. Tong’s community engagement project, Poetry Lives Here.
National Poetry Month occurs each April and showcases the extraordinary legacy and ongoing achievement of American poets.
Look for a new video to be released each day during April. Follow ArtsFairfax on Facebook and Ms. Tong on Twitter @PoetryLivesHere. Remember to share with us on social media @ArtsFairfax your favorite poet, poem, and reader using the hashtag: #NPMArtsFairfax in your posts.
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- 1The Honorable
- 2Nicole Tong, Fairfax Poet Laureate Reads her original work “Intimacy Theory”
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- 4Joseph Gueron Reads “How I Learn to Walk” By Javier Zamora
- 5Jennifer Atkinson Reads her original work “Why Seek the Dead Among the Living”
- 6Paul Vodra Reads “American Sonnet for the New Year” Terrence Hayes
- 7Calista Garcia Reads “The Wound” By Lauren Shapiro
- 8Holly Mason Reads her original work “Cold Front”
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- 10Yana Nikol Reads “Lines Breaking” By Jose B. Gonzalez
- 11U.S. Representative Gerry Connolly Reads “Essay on Craft” By Ocean Vuong
- 12Holly Karapetkova Reads “Last Epistle” By Kateema Lee
- 13David Ebenbach Reads his original work “Falling”
- 14Yasmine Bolden Reads her original work “Imagine Yourself a Celestial Being”
- 15Peggy Fox Reads “Crossings” By Ravi Shanker
- 16Meghan Trossen Reads “Hive” By Kevin Young
- 17Alison Kysia Reads “Ceramics: Courses at Intervals” By Sofia Ali-Khan
- 18Rebecca Tax Reads “Testimony (for Michael Brown 1996-2014)” By Hafizah Geter
- 19Sarah Ebba Hansen Reads her original work “Suppose Your Body Never Failed”
- 20Lynn Borton Reads “Rose of Jericho” By Cindy Veach
- 21Scott Weaver Reads his original work “Detour Ghazal” By Scott Weaver
- 22Sally Keith Reads “Headwaters” By Ellen Bryant Voight
- 23Guillermo Almada Reads “I Own Many Socks, Some with Wings” By Juan Felipe Herrera
- 24Megan Beyer Reads “House of Light” By Amanda Gorman
- 25Sharon Fishel Reads “Scent” By Yvette Neisser Moreno
- 26Reggie Holmes Reads “Eulogy” By Kevin Young
- 27Nancy Najarian Reads “Encounter” By Lola Koundakjian
- 28Kevin Leong Reads “I am Learning Nothing this Night” By Reginald Dwayne Betts
- 29Nathan Carter Reads “Museum” By Rudy Francisco
- 30The Honorable Sharon Bulova Reads “Wild Life” By Grace Cavalieri
- 1Holly Senn Reads “Instructions on Not Giving Up” By Ada Limon