This year’s headliners include poetry editor of The New Yorker, Paul Muldoon playing with his band Wayside Shrines, as well as National Book Award Winner Mark Doty, Matthea Harvey, and Joyelle McSweeney reading poetry. Other highlights of this year’s festival include readings curated by The Academy of American Poets, Cave Canem, Coconut Books, Coldfront Magazine, Great Weather for MEDIA, Kundiman, Luna Luna Magazine, Poetry Crush, The Poetry Project, and VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts. The Poetry Society of New York will also be launching The Typewriter Project, a new citywide installation that encourage users to go analog, and The Poetry Brothel, in collaboration with their sister branch Poeziebordeel from Belgium, will be taking over house 408 along the Colonel’s Row to create an intimate and immersive, candlelit experience.
Saturday July 26th Governors Island 3pm free and open to the public

the New York City Poetry Festival’s new website: http://newyorkcitypoetryfestival.com.