New Jersey Stage - September 2014 | Page 130

Watch a video of Mark Doty reading poetry lie Diaz, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Saeed Jones, Alex Lemon, Shara McCallum, Benjamin Alire Saenz, and Rachel Wiley. The evening Poetry Sampler on Thursday, October 23 beginning at 7:00 pm will also feature Richard Blanco, Mark Doty, Marie Howe, and Sharon Olds as well as Eavan Boland, Ireland’s most honored female poet; former U.S. Poet Laureates Rita Dove and Robert Pinsky; Pulitzer Prize New Jersey Stage winners Claudia Emerson, Yusef Komunyakaa, Tracy K. Smith and Gary Snyder; and Alice Oswald, one of the United Kingdom’s leading poets and winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize. Also reading will be Jan Beatty, Cathy Park Hong, Rachel McKibbens, Anis M