Don't forget: Dodge Poetry Festival's free, virtual poetry & disability justice event, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 7-8:30 PM

 

If you haven't yet registered, it's not too late to sign up to join us virtually April 29th from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. (EDT) for “The future lives in our bodies: Poetry & Disability Justice," a poetry reading and conversation exploring how poetry can inspire questions about disability justice and spark increased engagement with this important theme.    Event Info   Moderated by poet and essayist Ona Gritz and featuring poets Ina Cariño, Camisha Jones and Stephen Kuusisto, this event is offered for free. Registration is required. If you have already registered, share the link with a friend!    Register   CART captioning and ASL interpretation will be provided.     [Alt text: Headshots of the participating poets in a 4x4 grid. Top left: Ina Cariño. Top right: Ona Gritz. Bottom left: Camisha Jones. Bottom right: Stephen Kuusisto.]   The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Program is a member of the Poetry Coalition, a national alliance of nearly thirty organizations working together to promote the value poets bring to our culture and the important contribution poetry makes in the lives of people of all ages and backgrounds. Poetry Coalition members across the nation are presenting events this spring on this shared theme. The line “The future lives in our bodies” is from the poem “Femme Futures” by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.       Copyright © 2022 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival and Program, All rights reserved.