17th Annual PoetryFest
Our longstanding festival gathers writers from Ireland, Northern Ireland, and North America for a weekend of conversations and readings, starting with Friday evening’s much-loved Favorite Irish Poems launch event celebrating Irish poetry across the ages. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20 // 8PM Favorite Irish Poems Favorite Irish
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Poems is the traditional opening night event of our annual PoetryFest, to which we invite festival poets and special guests to share their most-loved verses by Irish writers, followed by a reception in the Devlin Café. RESERVE > PoetryFest's Favorite Irish Poems event was inspired in part by Robert Pinsky's Favorite Poem Project. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21 // 2PM, 3:30PM, 5PM Free readings and conversations with festival poets 2pm // Threa Almontaser and Dean Browne RESERVE > 3:30pm // Stephanie Burt and Annemarie Ní Churreáin RESERVE > 5pm // In Conversation: Poetry & Writing About Poetry Stephanie Burt and Eric Falci, moderated by Vona Groarke RESERVE > SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22 // 1PM, 2:30PM, 4PM Free readings and conversations with festival poets 1pm // Megan Fernandes and Susannah Dickey RESERVE > 2:30pm // Desert Island Poems: Kevin Young and Peter Sirr with Vona Groarke Each poet chooses the five poems they would bring to a desert island. RESERVE > 4pm // Kevin Young and Peter Sirr RESERVE >