Watch a video of Marie Howe reading poetry
wald as well as Marilyn Nelson,
three-time finalist for the National
Book Award and Connecticut’s
former Poet Laureate; and soldierpoet Brian Turner, winner of the
Beatrice Hawley Award.
Also on Saturday evening Komunyakaa, Nelson, Oswald and Turner will participate in a special program, “Another Kind of Courage,”
focusing on war veterans and their
families. They will be joined by
veterans who’ve participated in
the Warrior Writers and Combat
New Jersey Stage
Paper Project workshops, and by
poets Jehanne Dubrow, Elyse Fenton, Charles H. Johnson, Gardner
McFall as well as others.
The Main-Stage Readings on
Sunday, October 26, which will
take place in the afternoon beginning at 1:30 pm, include readings
by former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy
Collins, Rita Dove, Marie Howe,
Robert Pinsky, and Gary Snyder
as well as Alberto Rios, a National
Book Award nominee and winner
of the Walt Whitman Award.
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