15th Annual PoetryFest at Irish Arts Center

We're thrilled to once again be sponsoring PoetryFest at Irish Arts Center, now in its 15th year.

Irish Arts Center's annual “literary revelry” (New Yorker), running November 22nd through 24th, returns with Vona Groarke joining Nick Laird as co-curator. In an intimately reconfigured setup for IAC's flexible theatre tucked away from the cacophony of New York City and our online lives, PoetryFest bridges contemporary work from both sides of the Atlantic with a weekend of readings and conversations with leading Irish, Northern Irish, and North American writers including Declan Ryan, Maggie Millner, Nuar Alsadir, Fran Lock, Leontia Flynn, Henri Cole, John Kelly, Ishion Hutchinson, and Shane McCrae.

Visit on November 22nd for a Favorite Irish Poems reading, or on the 23rd and 24th for free readings all day from festival poets. And on the 24th at the end of the 4pm reading by Shane McCrae and Vona Groarke, you'll have the chance to catch the premiere of two new poem films commissioned by us and directed by Matthew Thompson, featuring performances by McCrae and Groarke.

Visit our friends at Irish Arts Center to learn more and reserve your spot!