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Festival Sneak Peek!

We’ve spent the last several months - since announcing that the Dodge Poetry Festival would be held in Newark this year - knee deep in planning for another memorable Festival. Whether you have been to all, some, or none of them, we bet you’re wondering what you can expect for the 2010 Festival. Here’s a little peek:

Venues
In the coming weeks, we will have detailed information on the Festival venues, which form an easily walkable “poetry village” in the heart of Newark’s Downtown Arts' District. You already know that NJPAC is one of our partners and will be hosting the main stage performances, but there will also be poetry readings and events at the Newark Museum, New Jersey Historical Society, the Aljira Art Gallery, Trinity & St. Philip’s Cathedral, and First Baptist Peddie Memorial Church. If you can believe it, all these venues together are still a smaller footprint than Waterloo Village!

Schedule
To see when your favorite poets are reading, take a look at the full schedule on our website.

Tickets
Single-day, four-day and weekend passes are all available through the NJPAC box office.

We offer discounts to teachers, students and senior citizens with identification (please note: discounted tickets are currently only available to purchase by phone or at the box office).

For complete information, please see the ticket page on our website.

Going Green
We continue to look for ways to reduce the impact of the Festival on the environment. This year, we are excited to be working with green festival experts Seven-Star, who are helping us develop our biggest ever recycling and composting plan, as well as free water stations for all of our guests, and our favorite green feature yet: a bike valet at NJPAC!

Be sure to visit the Poetry Festival on Facebook and Twitter, in addition to the website for the latest Festival information. You can also read about the Poetry Festival poets in depth on the Dodge blog’s Poetry Friday feature.