How many dawns, chill from his rippling rest The seagull's wings shall dip and pivot him, Shedding white rings of tumult, building high Over the chained bay waters Liberty-- Then, with inviolate curve, forsake our eyes As apparitional as sails that cross Some page of figures to be filed away; --Till elevators
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Continuing his support of New York's rich literary tradition, Governor Cuomo appointed Marie Howe as the state poet laureate on August 29, 2012. Throughout her two-year two year term, the poet laureate promotes and encourages poetry writing throughout New York by giving public readings and talks within the state.
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Apr 15 2015
The Academy of American Poets presents Poetry & the Creative Mind at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in New York City on April 15, 2015. A gala celebration of poetry’s important place in our culture and its impact on the lives of readers, the eventfeatures leading and legendary actors, dancers, artists, musicians, and public figures on one stage sharing their favorite poems. |
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| Festival | New York Poetry Festival | New York |
| Reading Series | Brooklyn Book Festival | New York |
| Reading Series | Cornelia Street Café | New York |
| Reading Series | Nuyorican Poets Cafe | New York |
| Reading Series | NYC–Urbana | New York |
| Reading Series | Meet the Writers | New York |
| Reading Series | Spring Poetry Festival at City College of New York | New York |
| Reading Series | 92nd Street Y | New York |
| Colony | Millay Colony for the Arts | New York |
| Colony | Yaddo Colony | New York |
New York poet laureate
Marie Howe
Marie Howe was born in 1950 in Rochester, New York. She worked as a newspaper reporter and teacher before receiving her MFA from Columbia University...
poems
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poem
2005
Let the aroma of need waft across the river to New Jersey: all the snow and hills, a sky that moves and moves. I saw a rose in the clouds, I saw happiness on fire.
poem
2003
for the 43 members of Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Local 100, working at the Windows on the World restaurant, who lost their lives in the attack on the World Trade Center
Alabanza. Praise the cook with the shaven head and a tattoo on his shoulder that said Oye
