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.
type |
name | state |
|---|---|---|
| Festival | New York Poetry 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 |
| Reading Series | Brooklyn Book Festival | New York |
| Colony | Millay Colony for the Arts | New York |
| Colony | Yaddo Colony | New York |
In memory of Father Flye, 1884-1985
The strange and wonderful are too much with us. The protea of the antipodes--a great, globed, blazing honeybee of a bloom-- for sale in the supermarket! We are in our decadence, we are not entitled. What have we done to deserve all the produce of the tropics--
1. Caught on a side street in heavy traffic, I said to the cabbie, I should have walked. He replied, I should have been a doctor. 2. When can I get on the 11:33 I ask the guy in the information booth at the Atlantic Avenue Station. When they open the doors, he says. I am home among my people.
I get off the IRT in front of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture after riding an early Amtrak from Philly to get a hair cut at what used to be the Harlem "Y" barbershop. It gets me in at ten to ten. Waiting, I eat fish cakes at the Pam Pam and listen to the ladies call out orders: bacon-biscuit
